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Wen Yanbo
Wen Yanbo (文彦博, courtesy name Kuanfu, 1006–1097) was a Song dynasty statesman and chief councillor who served four emperors over fifty years and was enfeoffed as Duke of Lu.
Wen Yibo
Wen Yibo (文一波) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Sound Group in Beijing in 1993 and built it into China's largest private environmental protection company.
Wen Yiduo
Wen Yiduo (闻一多) was a Chinese poet, classical scholar, and democratic activist who wrote Red Candle and Dead Water and was assassinated in Kunming in 1946.
Wen Zhengming
Wen Zhengming (文徵明, 1470–1559) was a Chinese painter and calligrapher of Suzhou who led the Wu School and ranks among the Four Masters of Ming painting.
Wen Zhenheng
Wen Zhenheng, courtesy name Qimei, was a Ming dynasty literatus of Suzhou, great-grandson of the painter Wen Zhengming, and author of Zhangwuzhi, a canonical 1619 handbook of gardens, furnishing, and literati taste.
Wen Zhenmeng
Wen Zhenmeng (文震孟, 1574–1636) was a Ming dynasty official of Suzhou who placed first in the palace examination, served the Tianqi and Chongzhen emperors, and was dismissed as Grand Secretary after three months.
Wen Zisheng
Wen Zisheng (温子升, c. 495–547) was a Northern Wei writer and official, ranked with Xing Shao and Wei Shou as one of the Three Talents of the North.
Wen-Biao Gan
Wen-Biao Gan (甘文标) is a professor at New York University School of Medicine who images dendritic spines, the signal-receiving protrusions of neurons, in living mouse brains.
Wen-Hsiung Li
Wen-Hsiung Li, born 1942 in Taiwan, is a Taiwanese-American molecular evolutionist at Academia Sinica who showed the molecular clock varies with generation time and won the 2003 Balzan Prize.
Wen-Hwa Lee
Wen-Hwa Lee (李文华) is a Taiwanese cancer biologist who co-discovered the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor gene and defined how BRCA1 and BRCA2 work in DNA repair.
Wen-Ying Tsai
Wen-Ying Tsai (蔡文颖) was a Chinese-born American sculptor and pioneer of cybernetic sculpture, creating vibrating stainless-steel rod works under stroboscopic light that viewers could control through sound.
Wen's Foodstuff Group
Wen's Foodstuff Group (温氏食品集团股份有限公司) is a Guangdong-based Chinese livestock company, first in broilers and second in hogs among listed producers, supplying chicks and feed to 44,900 contract farmer households.
Wenatchee, Washington
Wenatchee, Washington: county seat of Chelan County at the Wenatchee-Columbia river confluence, second largest city in central Washington, the self-proclaimed Apple Capital of the World, platted in 1892 around the Great Northern Railway.
Wenbin Lin
Wenbin Lin (林文斌) is a materials chemist, a pioneer of metal–organic frameworks and their use in catalysis and cancer nanomedicine, who joined Westlake University in 2025.
Wenbing Tiaobian
Wenbing Tiaobian, "Systematic Differentiation of Warm Diseases," is a treatise by Qing physician Wu Tang, drafted in 1798, that established the triple-burner framework of warm-disease diagnosis.
WENBIT trial
WENBIT (Western Norway B Vitamin Intervention Trial), NCT00354081, a Norwegian randomized double-blind placebo-controlled 2x2 factorial trial of folic acid 0.8 mg, B12 0.4 mg, B6 40 mg in 3090 post-angiography CAD patients; no reduction in death, MI, unstable angina hospitalization, or stroke.
Wencan Die Casting
Wencan Die Casting, formally Wencan Group Co., Ltd. (文灿股份), is a Chinese maker of aluminum die castings for carmakers, founded in 1998 and listed in Shanghai since 2018.
Wenceslao Figuereo
Wenceslao Figuereo (c. 1834–1910) was a Dominican military man and Liberal politician who served as vice president from 1893 to 1899 and then as president, succeeding the assassinated Ulises Heureaux.
Wenceslaus Hollar
Wenceslaus Hollar, also Wenzel Hollar (Václav Hollar), was a Bohemian etcher and draughtsman (1607–1677) who worked mostly in England and made nearly 3,000 etchings, including views of London before and after the Great Fire of 1666.
Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia
Wenceslaus I (Václav, ca. 903–935), duke of Bohemia, Christianizing Přemyslid ruler killed by his brother Boleslaus I at Stará Boleslav; venerated martyr, patron saint of Bohemia, "Good King Wenceslas."
Wenceslaus II
Wenceslaus II (Václav II.) was King of Bohemia from 1278 to 1305 and King of Poland from 1300, under whom Bohemia became a Central European power.
Wenceslaus III of Bohemia
Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (Václav III; 1289–1306) was the last male ruler of the Přemyslid dynasty, king of Bohemia from 1305 and briefly titular king of Hungary.
Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia
Wenceslaus IV (Václav IV, Wenzel IV), 1361–1419, Luxembourg king of Bohemia 1378–1419 and King of the Romans 1376–1400; deposed by four Rhenish electors in 1400, imprisoned by Sigismund 1402–1403, died 16 August 1419, prelude to the Hussite movement.
Wenchang
Wenchang (文昌市, Wenchang Shi) is a county-level city in northeastern Hainan, China, home to China's largest coastal space launch site and ancestral home of the Soong family.
Wenchang Space Launch Site
Wenchang Space Launch Site is a coastal rocket launch complex on Hainan Island, China, opened in 2016 and the departure point for heavy-lift rockets, space station modules, and lunar probes.
Wenchang Space Launch Site (文昌航天发射场)
Wenchang Space Launch Site (文昌航天发射场) is China's coastal spaceport on Hainan Island, opened in 2016 and the primary site for its heavy-lift Long March 5 launches.
Wenchao Shen
Wenchao Shen (Shen Wenchao) is a partner at Sinovation Ventures who leads AI and high-tech investments, including 4Paradigm, Waterdrop, and Bitmain; he previously worked at Baidu and BAI Capital.
Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen
Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen (born 1959) is a Norwegian jurist, Oslo District Court judge 2007–2014 and Supreme Court justice 2014–2026, best known as presiding judge of the 2012 Breivik 22 July trial.
Wenchi Chen
Wenchi Chen (陈文琦) is a Taiwanese semiconductor entrepreneur who has led VIA Technologies since the early 1990s, building it into the world's number-two PC chipset supplier.
Wenco International
Wenco International is a Canadian mining technology company in British Columbia that develops fleet management systems for surface mines and became a Hitachi Construction Machinery subsidiary in 2009.