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Wendens Ambo
Wendens Ambo is a village of about 400 people in Uttlesford, Essex, formed on 23 March 1662 by uniting the Domesday parishes of Great and Little Wenden; the name means "both Wendens".
Wenderoman
A Wenderoman ("turn novel") is a German-language novel centered on the Wende, the Peaceful Revolution in East Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and reunification.
Wendi Deng Murdoch (邓文迪)
Wendi Deng Murdoch, also known as Deng Wendi (邓文迪), is a Chinese-born businesswoman and investor who worked in News Corp's Asia operations and married Rupert Murdoch from 1999 to 2013.
Wendi McLendon-Covey
Wendi McLendon-Covey (born 1969, Wendi Anne McLendon) is an American actress and Groundlings alumna known for Deputy Clementine Johnson on Reno 911!, Rita in Bridesmaids, Beverly Goldberg on The Goldbergs, and Joyce on St. Denis Medical.
Wendi Richter
Wendi Richter (born 1961) is a retired American professional wrestler, two-time WWF Women's Champion who dethroned Fabulous Moolah on MTV in 1984, regained the title at the first WrestleMania, and lost it in the 1985 Spider Lady screwjob.
Wendie Jo Sperber
Wendie Jo Sperber (1958-2005), American comedic actress, played Amy Cassidy on Bosom Buddies with Tom Hanks and Linda McFly in Back to the Future I and III; founded weSPARK Cancer Support Center in Sherman Oaks in 2001 after a 1997 breast cancer diagnosis.
Wendie Malick
Wendie Malick (Wendie Diane Malick, born 1950) is an American actress known for Nina Van Horn on Just Shoot Me!, Judith Tupper Stone on Dream On, Victoria Chase on Hot in Cleveland, and voicing Eda Clawthorne in The Owl House.
Wendie Renard
Wendie Renard, born 1990 in Schoelcher, Martinique, is a French centre-back and captain of OL Lyonnes; record eight UEFA Women's Champions League titles, first to 100 UEFA women's club appearances, France international since 2011.
Wendigo
Wendigo (wiindigoo, wîhtikow), a cannibal spirit of Algonquian peoples linked to hunger, greed, winter, and cannibalism; basis of the disputed 'wendigo psychosis' diagnosis and a widely appropriated horror figure.
Wendigo (comics)
Wendigo is a Marvel Comics monster created by Steve Englehart and Herb Trimpe in Incredible Hulk #162 (1973): a cursed Canadian cannibal turned white-furred beast, fought by Hulk, Wolverine, and Alpha Flight.
Wendjebauendjed
Wendjebauendjed, also written Wendjebaendjedet, was a general and high priest under Pharaoh Psusennes I, buried with a gold mask in the king's tomb at Tanis.
Wends
Wends: German exonym for Slavs, especially the medieval Polabian Slavs of the Elbe and southern Baltic; today chiefly the Sorbs of Lusatia, targeted by the 1147 Wendish Crusade.
Wendy (손승완) (singer)
Wendy (웬디), real name Son Seung-wan (손승완), born 1994, is the main vocalist of Red Velvet and a solo K-pop singer; solo EPs Like Water, Wish You Hell, Cerulean Verge; first world tour W:EALIVE; agency ASND Entertainment.
Wendy & Lisa
Wendy & Lisa (Girl Bros.) are an American pop-rock duo of Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, ex-members of Prince's Revolution, known for Purple Rain, the 1987 hit "Waterfall," and film and TV scoring.
Wendy Atkin
Wendy Atkin (1947–2018) was a British epidemiologist at St Mark's Hospital and Imperial College London whose trials showed a single sigmoidoscopy cuts bowel cancer incidence and mortality, reshaping NHS screening.
Wendy B. Vitter
Wendy Baldwin Vitter is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Wendy Beckett
Wendy Beckett, Sister Wendy (1930–2018), British Carmelite nun and art historian; hermit at Quidenham, Norfolk; BBC art documentaries in the 1990s and about 25–40 books. Distinct from the contemporary Australian playwright of the same name.
Wendy Beetlestone
Wendy Beetlestone is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2014, and became chief judge in 2025.
Wendy Bickmore
Wendy Bickmore, also known as Wendy A. Bickmore, is a British genome organization researcher who directs the MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh since 2015.
Wendy Boglioli
Wendy Boglioli (Wendy Lou Lansbach Boglioli, born 1955) is an American swimmer who won 1976 Montreal Olympic gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay with a world-record 3:44.82 and bronze in the 100 m butterfly.
Wendy Brown
Wendy Brown: name shared by American heptathlete and triple jumper Wendy Renee Brown (born 1966, USC, 18th at Seoul 1988) and New Zealand sprinter Wendy Brown (born 1950, New Plymouth, 1974 and 1978 Commonwealth Games).
Wendy Cai-Lee
Wendy Cai-Lee is an American banker who founded Piermont Bank, a digital commercial bank in New York that opened in 2019, and is described as the first Asian American woman to launch a US commercial bank.
Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, 1939) is an American composer and electronic musician whose Switched-On Bach (1968) popularized the Moog synthesizer and won three Grammys, and who scored A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Tron while pioneering digital synthesis and alternate tunings.
Wendy Chung
Wendy Chung is a clinical and molecular geneticist who is Pediatrician-in-Chief at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for identifying genes behind more than 60 Mendelian conditions.
Wendy Cook Hogg
Wendy Cook-Hogg, also Wendy Hogg, Canadian backstroke swimmer born 1956 in Vancouver; 1972 and 1976 Olympian, 1973 world bronze, 1974 Commonwealth triple gold and 100 m backstroke world record holder.
Wendy Craig
Wendy Craig (born Anne Gwendoline Craig, 1934) is an English actress, CBE, star of British sitcoms Not in Front of the Children, And Mother Makes Three/Five and Butterflies (Ria Parkinson), plus Nanny, The Royal, and the 1969 BAFTA-winning performance.
Wendy Crewson
Wendy Jane Crewson (born 1956, Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian actress known for The Doctor, Air Force One, the Santa Clause trilogy, 24, and Saving Hope, winner of six Gemini Awards and 2015 Walk of Fame inductee.
Wendy Darling
Wendy Darling, Wendy Moira Angela Darling, is J. M. Barrie's heroine from the 1904 play Peter Pan and the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy: the eldest Darling child who mothers and tells stories to the Lost Boys in Neverland and grows up in the novel's final chapter.
Wendy Davis (politician)
Wendy R. Davis (born 1963), Democratic former Texas state senator for District 10 (Fort Worth, 2009-2015), famous for her 2013 abortion-bill filibuster; lost the 2014 Texas governor's race to Greg Abbott, later led Planned Parenthood Texas Votes.
Wendy Fordyce
Wendy Fordyce, American swimmer of the 1960s from Coral Gables and Miami Springs, Florida; 1967 Pan American Games double gold medalist and 4x100-meter relay world record holder; 1968 US Olympic Trials competitor.