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Wend Kuuni
Wend Kuuni (Wênd Kûuni, "God's Gift") is Gaston Kaboré's 1982 Burkinabe feature in Moré about a mute orphan adopted by a Mossi village who regains speech after a shock; it won the 1985 César for Best French-language Film.
Wendake
Wendake is a reserve of the Huron-Wendat Nation enclosed within Quebec City, occupied since 1697; the name once also referred to the Wendat homeland between Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay in Ontario.
Wendat oral literature
Wendat oral literature is the stories, myths, songs, and historical narratives passed down by speech among the Wendat (Huron) people of Wendake, between Georgian Bay and Lake Simcoe.
Wendat people
Wendat (Huron, Huron-Wendat, Ouendat), an Iroquoian-speaking people of south-central Ontario at early 17th century contact; horticultural-hunting villages, ossuary burials, French alliances, epidemics; today the Huron-Wendat Nation at Wendake, Quebec.
Wende (crater on Rhea)
Wende is an 83-km-wide impact crater on Rhea, Saturn's moon, at 56.3°S, 226.4°W, IAU-approved April 23, 2010 and named for the Mossi supreme sun god of Burkina Faso.
Wende Correctional Facility
Wende Correctional Facility is a maximum-security New York State DOCCS prison for men in Alden, Erie County, opened 1983 on the former Erie County Penitentiary site; it hosts a Regional Medical Unit and Mental Health Service Level 1 care.
Wendee Lee
Wendee Lee (born 1960, Los Angeles) is an American voice actress and ADR director, also credited as Wendee Swan or Wendy Lee. Known for Faye Valentine in Cowboy Bebop, Haruhi Suzumiya, Yoruichi in Bleach, and TK in Digimon, with over 600 credits and direction work on Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Sand Land.
Wendel Clark
Wendel Clark (Wendel Lee Clark), born 1966 in Kelvington, Saskatchewan, is a retired NHL left wing drafted first overall by Toronto in 1985; Leafs captain 1991-94, 793 games, 330 goals, Legends Row honoree and team ambassador.
Wendelin Werner
Wendelin Werner, born 1968 in Cologne, is a German-born French mathematician awarded the 2006 Fields Medal for his work on stochastic Loewner evolution and two-dimensional Brownian motion.
Wendell & Wild
Wendell & Wild is a 2022 Netflix stop-motion animated film directed by Henry Selick, co-written with Jordan Peele, about demon brothers (Key and Peele) who strike a deal with teen Kat Elliot (Lyric Ross).
Wendell A. Lim
Wendell A. Lim is an American synthetic biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for synNotch receptors and engineering therapeutic immune cells against cancer.
Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry (1934–2026) was an American poet, novelist, essayist, and Kentucky farmer who wrote more than fifty books celebrating rural life and criticizing industrial agriculture.
Wendell Carter Jr.
Wendell Carter Jr. (born 1999, Atlanta) is an NBA center-forward for the Orlando Magic, #34; drafted 7th overall by the Chicago Bulls in 2018 after one Duke season; career averages 11.9 points and 8.1 rebounds.
Wendell Corey
Wendell Reid Corey (1914–1968), American stage, film, and television actor and Republican politician; Broadway hit Dream Girl, Rear Window's Lt. Doyle, Academy president 1961–63, Santa Monica councilman 1965–68.
Wendell F. Rosse
Wendell Franklyn Rosse is an American physician-scientist in hematology and immunology at Duke University whose research on paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria revealed the disease's complement-sensitive red cell defect.
Wendell Fleming
Wendell Fleming (1928–2023) was an American applied mathematician at Brown University, known for the 1960 Federer–Fleming paper founding geometric measure theory and for building stochastic control theory.
Wendell Garner
Wendell Garner (1921–2008) was an American experimental psychologist at Johns Hopkins and Yale, known for Garner interference and the 1962 book Uncertainty and Structure as Psychological Concepts.
Wendell H. Furry
Wendell H. Furry (1907–1984) was an American theoretical physicist at Harvard who helped build electron-positron theory, gave his name to the Furry theorem, and became a central figure in a McCarthy-era loyalty case.
Wendell L. Roelofs
Wendell L. Roelofs is an American insect chemical ecologist and Cornell professor emeritus who pioneered identifying insect sex pheromones, work honored with the 1983 National Medal of Science.
Wendell M. Stanley
Wendell M. Stanley, also known as Wendell Meredith Stanley, was an American biochemist who crystallized tobacco mosaic virus in 1935 and won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Wendell Mitchell Latimer
Wendell Mitchell Latimer (1893–1955) was an American chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, who first stated the principle of hydrogen bonding in 1920 and published influential oxidation-potential tables.
Wendell Mottley
Wendell Mottley, Trinidadian 400m sprinter, economist, and former Minister of Finance; won 1964 Tokyo Olympic silver (400m) and bronze (4x400m relay), 1966 Commonwealth double gold, later Credit Suisse managing director.
Wendell P. Woodring
Wendell P. Woodring (1891–1983) was an American geologist and invertebrate paleontologist who spent over forty-five years with the U.S. Geological Survey studying Caribbean and California Tertiary fossils.
Wendell Pierce
Wendell Pierce (born 1963, New Orleans) is an American actor known as Bunk Moreland on The Wire, Antoine Batiste on Treme, and the first Black Broadway Willy Loman, earning a 2023 Tony nomination.
Wendell R. Haag
Wendell R. Haag is an American research fisheries biologist with the USDA Forest Service who studies freshwater mussel conservation and received a Presidential Early Career Award.
Wendell Scott
Wendell Scott (Wendell Oliver Scott Sr.) was a pioneering American stock car racer who was the first Black driver to win a race in NASCAR's premier series.
Wendell Smallwood
Wendell Smallwood Jr. (born 1994), NFL running back from Wilmington, Delaware; drafted 153rd overall in 2016 by the Philadelphia Eagles out of West Virginia; 956 career rushing yards; later pleaded guilty to COVID-19 aid fraud.
Wendell Willkie
Wendell Lewis Willkie (1892-1944), Indiana-born utilities executive and former Democrat, was the surprise 1940 Republican presidential nominee who lost to FDR (449-82 electoral) yet backed Lend-Lease, wrote One World, and co-founded Freedom House.
Wendelstein 7-X
Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) is the world's largest stellarator-type fusion device, a nuclear fusion experiment at the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald, Germany, that produced its first plasma in 2015.
Wendeng hydroelectric plant
The Wendeng hydroelectric plant (山东文登抽水蓄能电站) is an 1,800 MW pumped storage power station in Weihai, Shandong, China, the largest in the province, fully operational since 2023.