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Wayne E. Alley
Wayne Edward Alley (born 1932) is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge in Oklahoma from 1985 until 1999, appointed by Ronald Reagan.
Wayne Ellington
Wayne Ellington (The Man with the Golden Arm), born 1987, American NBA shooting guard, 2009 UNC NCAA champion and Final Four MOP, 13-season 3-point specialist for 9 teams including the Timberwolves, Heat, Pistons, and Lakers.
Wayne Enterprises
Wayne Enterprises (formerly WayneCorp) is the fictional DC Comics conglomerate owned by Bruce Wayne and run by Lucius Fox, funding Batman's operations; founded in-universe as a 17th-century merchant house and ranked 11th on Forbes's fictional-companies list.
Wayne Fontana
Wayne Fontana is an American Democratic politician who has represented Pennsylvania's 42nd Senate district in Pittsburgh since 2005, after serving on the Allegheny County Council.
Wayne Frye
Wayne Thomas Frye (1930–2014), American rower and Air Force colonel; won gold in the men's eight at Helsinki 1952 with the Naval Academy 'Great Eight', later flew 266 Vietnam combat missions.
Wayne Gallman
Wayne Gallman (Wayne Gallman II), born 1994, is a former NFL running back from Clemson, drafted 140th overall by the Giants in 2017; his best season was 2020 with 682 rushing yards and 6 touchdowns.
Wayne Goodwin
Wayne Goodwin (born 1967) is a North Carolina Democratic politician from Hamlet: state representative 1996-2004, Insurance Commissioner 2009-2017, state party chair 2017-2021, and DMV commissioner 2022-2025.
Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Gretzky, "The Great One" (born 1961, Brantford, Ontario), Canadian hockey player; NHL career 1979-99 with Oilers, Kings, Blues, Rangers; 2,857 points, 1,963 assists, 894 goals, four Stanley Cups; goals record broken by Ovechkin in 2025.
Wayne Hall (Australian addiction scientist)
Wayne Hall, full name Wayne Denis Hall, is an Australian addiction scientist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland, known for research on cannabis, illicit drugs, and nicotine.
Wayne Hancock
Wayne "The Train" Hancock (born 1965, Dallas, Texas) is an American alt-country singer-songwriter, king of his self-coined "juke joint swing" blending honky-tonk, Western swing, rockabilly, and blues; debut Thunderstorms and Neon Signs (1995), Bloodshot Records artist, no drummer, relentless touring.
Wayne Harper
Wayne Harper is an American Republican politician, a Utah senator representing the 6th district who has served in the Utah Legislature since 1997 and is Senate president pro tempore.
Wayne Hendrickson
Wayne Hendrickson is an American biophysicist at Columbia University who developed the MAD and SAD crystallographic phasing methods and determined structures of immune receptors, kinases, and viral proteins.
Wayne Hennessey
Wayne Hennessey, Welsh goalkeeper born 1987, earned a record 109 Wales caps, played at Euro 2016 and the 2022 World Cup, retired 16 July 2025, and joined Nottingham Forest's goalkeeping coaching staff.
Wayne Hsieh
Wayne Hsieh (谢伟琦, Hsieh Wei-chi) is a Taiwanese engineer-turned-investor who co-founded computer maker ASUS in 1989 and led the consortium that bought Forbes Media in 2014.
Wayne Hu
Wayne Hu is an American theoretical cosmologist at the University of Chicago who studies the cosmic microwave background and dark energy, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.
Wayne Huizenga
H. Wayne Huizenga (1937–2018) was an American entrepreneur who built three Fortune 500 companies, Waste Management, Blockbuster, and AutoNation, and owned the Miami Dolphins, Florida Marlins, and Florida Panthers.
Wayne Jenkins
Wayne Earl Jenkins Jr. is a former Baltimore Police sergeant who led the Gun Trace Task Force and was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2018 for racketeering.
Wayne Joseph Riley
Wayne Joseph Riley is an American internist and physician executive who has served since 2017 as the 17th president of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, New York.
Wayne Katon
Wayne Katon (1950–2015) was an American psychiatrist at the University of Washington who developed and tested the collaborative care model for treating depression in primary care.
Wayne Knight
Wayne Knight (born 1955, raised in Cartersville, Georgia) is an American character actor known as Newman on Seinfeld and Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park, with voice roles in Toy Story 2, Tarzan, and Hercules.
Wayne L. Hubbell
Wayne L. Hubbell is an American biochemist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA, known for developing site-directed spin labeling and applying it to rhodopsin and other membrane proteins.
Wayne Langerholc
Wayne Langerholc is an American Republican politician and member of the Pennsylvania Senate from the 35th district, and a lifelong Cambria County resident who previously served as a township supervisor.
Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierre, born 1949, led the National Rifle Association as executive vice president and CEO from 1991 to 2024, remaking it into a powerful gun-rights lobby before resigning ahead of a New York civil corruption trial that found him liable.
Wayne M Itano
Wayne M. Itano is an American atomic physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, known for laser cooling theory, the quantum Zeno effect, and trapped-ion quantum logic gates.
Wayne M. Yokoyama
Wayne M. Yokoyama is an American physician-scientist and immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine whose work on natural killer cell receptors transformed the understanding of innate immunity.
Wayne Mallory
Wayne Mallory, stage name of Wayne Wiley Moseley (1924–2020), American film and TV actor from Bakersfield, brother of Guy Madison; 1950s Western and sci-fi roles, later prop and special effects crew work. Distinct from the later actor of Day Labor (2008).
Wayne Manor
Wayne Manor is a fictional mansion in Gotham City that serves as the home of Bruce Wayne. It is the surface entrance to the Batcave, the hidden base for Batman.
Wayne Maunder
Wayne Maunder (1937–2018), Canadian-born American actor, starred as Lt. Col. Custer in ABC's Custer and as Scott Lancer in CBS's Lancer, later in Chase, The Seven Minutes, and Porky's.
Wayne Mixson
Wayne Mixson (John Wayne Mixson, 1922-2020), American Democratic politician, Florida's 39th governor for three days in January 1987 after Bob Graham's resignation; earlier six-term state representative and two-term lieutenant governor.
Wayne Moore
Wayne Richard Moore (1931–2015), American freestyle swimmer; 1952 Helsinki Olympic gold medalist in the 4x200 m freestyle relay, Yale world-record holder, and later precision-engineering executive and author.