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Wade Boggs
Wade Boggs, American MLB third baseman (1982-1999) for the Red Sox, Yankees, and Devil Rays; 3,010 hits, .328 average, five batting titles, seven straight 200-hit seasons, 3,000th hit was a home run, Hall of Fame 2005 first ballot.
Wade Cup
The Wade Cup is a cast brass bowl inlaid with silver, made in Iran in the early 1200s and now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, famed for human- and animal-shaped Arabic script.
Wade Davis (ethnobotanist)
Wade Davis is a Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, writer, and photographer trained at Harvard University whose investigation of Haitian zombification made him one of the best-known popularizers of anthropology.
Wade Forster
Wade Forster is an Australian country singer-songwriter and professional rodeo cowboy from Winton, outback Queensland. Known as the Aussie Cowboy, 44th Toyota Star Maker winner (2024), albums The Beginning, Gooseneck Party, The Aftermath, not the designer Wade Forst.
Wade G. Regehr
Wade G. Regehr is a neuroscientist and Bullard Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, known for fluorescence techniques measuring presynaptic calcium and for work on short-term synaptic plasticity and cerebellar function.
Wade Hampton Census Area
Wade Hampton Census Area was a census area in Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, renamed Kusilvak Census Area (FIPS 02158) effective July 1, 2015 at Governor Bill Walker's request; 2010 population 7,459.
Wade in the Water
Wade in the Water is a traditional African American spiritual with no known author, first published in the 1901 Fisk Jubilee Singers songbook. Its refrain draws on John 5:4; its Underground Railroad code-song reputation lacks historical evidence.
Wade Kapszukiewicz
Wade Kapszukiewicz is an American Democratic politician who has served as mayor of Toledo, Ohio, since 2018, after being Lucas County Treasurer from 2005 to 2018.
Wade Morissette
Wade Imre Morissette, also Wade Morissette (born 1974, Ottawa), is a Canadian kirtan singer, yoga teacher, and author, twin brother of Alanis Morissette; albums include Sargam Scales of Music, Strong as Diamonds, and Maha Moha.
Wade Phillips
Wade Phillips (born 1947, Orange, Texas), son of Bum Phillips, NFL defensive coordinator for eight teams and head coach of six including Broncos, Bills, Cowboys; Super Bowl 50 champion DC; now UFL Brahmas coach.
Wade Robson
Wade Robson, Australian-born dancer and choreographer for Britney Spears, 'N Sync, and Usher, two-time Emmy winner, host of MTV's The Wade Robson Project, and a Michael Jackson abuse accuser featured in Leaving Neverland.
Wade Wilson (American football)
Wade Wilson (Charles Wade Wilson, 1959–2019), NFL quarterback who played 1981–99 for the Vikings, Falcons, Saints, Cowboys, and Raiders; 1988 Pro Bowl, Super Bowl XXX champion, later Cowboys quarterbacks coach for Tony Romo and Dak Prescott.
Wade Wilson (criminal)
Wade Steven Wilson, the "Deadpool Killer", is a Florida death row inmate sentenced in 2024 for the 2019 murders of Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz in Cape Coral; his mandatory appeal remains pending.
Wade Wilson (film character)
Wade Wilson is the film version of Marvel's Deadpool in the X-Men film series, played by Ryan Reynolds: a wisecracking mercenary mutated into the mute Weapon XI in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), then rebooted in Deadpool (2016) and joined to the MCU in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).
Wade–Giles
Wade–Giles (威妥玛拼音) is a Mandarin Chinese romanization system by Thomas Wade and Herbert Giles, using apostrophes for aspiration and superscript tone numbers; it was the twentieth-century standard before pinyin and survives in Taiwan and older texts.
Wadeline Jonathas
Wadeline Jonathas (Venlogh), born 1998 in Gonaïves, Haiti, is a 400m sprinter; Olympic 4x400m relay gold for the USA at Tokyo 2020, fourth in the 2019 Doha 400m final (49.60), and allegiance switched to Haiti in 2025.
Wadi (وادي)
Wadi (وادي), Arabic for a dry valley or riverbed, is the Middle Eastern and North African term for an ephemeral stream channel that flows after rain, recharges alluvial aquifers through its bed, and carries destructive flash floods.
Wadi al-Batin
Wadi al-Batin is an intermittent river and ancient valley forming the natural boundary between Iraq and Kuwait, the lower course of the Wadi Al-Rummah system rising on the Arabian Shield.
Wadi al-Jarf
Wadi al-Jarf, also written Wadi el-Jarf, is a Fourth Dynasty harbor on Egypt's Gulf of Suez, considered the oldest port site in Egypt and source of the oldest known Egyptian papyri.
Wadi Allaqi
Wadi Allaqi is a large wadi and gold-mining region in the Eastern Desert, running east from the Nile, its mouth about 120 km south of Aswan.
Wādī as Sīr
Wādī as Sīr (وادي السير), also spelled Wadi al-Seer, is a district in western Amman, Jordan, with 260,348 residents in 2015 and a larger district of about 458,770.
Wadi Bayhan
Wadi Bayhan, also written Wadi Beihan, is a valley in Shabwah governorate, Yemen, on the edge of the Ramlat al-Sab'atayn desert, that formed the heartland of the pre-Islamic kingdom of Qataban.
Wadi bend
Wadi bend (GeoNames code WADB) is a gazetteer feature type for a conspicuously curved or bent segment of a wadi, an ephemeral desert stream channel in arid regions such as the Middle East and North Africa.
Wadi Brisa inscriptions
The Wadi Brisa inscriptions, also written Wadi Brisah, are twin rock-cut inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar II in the Lebanon mountains near Hermel, recording his cedar-cutting expedition.
Wadi Daliyeh
Wadi Daliyeh, also Wadi ed-Daliya, is a cave site in the central West Bank, about 14 km north of Jericho, where the fourth-century BCE Samaria papyri were found in 1962.
Wadi Dawkah
Wadi Dawkah is a dry valley in Dhofar, Oman, north of Salalah, where frankincense trees are tapped and form part of a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Wadi Debayan
Wadi Debayan is an archaeological site in north-western Qatar, south of al-Zubarah, whose Neolithic occupation from around 7,500 years ago is among the earliest known in the country.
Wadi Digla
Wadi Digla is a Predynastic Egyptian cemetery, known as Maadi South, on the southern outskirts of Cairo, where excavators uncovered some 468 human burials between 1951 and 1953.
Wadi El Rayan Protected Area
Wadi El Rayan Protected Area (محمية وادي الريان), also called Wadi Rayan, is a 1,759 km² Egyptian protected area in Fayoum Governorate, declared 1989, with two man-made drainage lakes, Egypt's waterfall area, and the Wadi El-Hitan whale-fossil World Heritage Site.
Wadi el-Hudi
Wadi el-Hudi is an ancient amethyst mining landscape in Egypt's Eastern Desert east of Aswan, worked during the Middle Kingdom and bearing over 280 carved inscriptions.