All articles starting with W

Wendy Freedman

Wendy Freedman is an observational cosmologist at the University of Chicago known for measuring the Hubble constant, leading the Hubble Key Project and the Giant Magellan Telescope.

Wendy Graham

Wendy J. Graham is an obstetric epidemiologist and professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for the Sisterhood Method for estimating maternal mortality.

Wendy Hiller

Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller (1912–2003), English stage and film actress; star of Love on the Dole, Shaw's Pygmalion and Major Barbara; Oscar winner for Separate Tables (1958).

Wendy Holdener, Swiss alpine skier (born 1993, SC Drusberg Unteriberg), slalom and combined specialist; five Olympic medals including 2018 team gold, three world titles, and a record 38 World Cup slalom podiums with only 2 wins.

Wendy James

Wendy James (born 1966, London), not to be confused with the Michigan gospel singer of the same name, is the English singer-songwriter who founded and fronted Transvision Vamp, scored a UK No.1 with Velveteen, later released the Elvis Costello-written Now Ain't the Time for Your Tears, and reformed the band in 2026.

Wendy K. Chung

Wendy K. Chung is an American clinical and molecular geneticist and pediatrician, Chief of Pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital, known for identifying over 60 disease genes and leading the SPARK autism study.

Wendy Koenig-Knudson

Wendy Koenig-Knudson (Wendy Koenig, Wendy Knudson), American middle-distance runner born 1955 in Boulder, Colorado; two-time Olympic 800 m finalist-round competitor (1972, 1976), first woman under one minute for 400 m hurdles (59.08, 1973), three-time AIAW champion and later mayor of Estes Park.

Wendy L. Mao

Wendy L. Mao is a mineral physicist at Stanford University who studies materials under the extreme pressures of planetary interiors and chairs its Earth sciences department.

Wendy Levinson

Wendy Levinson is a Canadian general internist at the University of Toronto who founded Choosing Wisely Canada and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2014.

Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia

Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia, Canadian hospitality entrepreneur (Century Plaza Hotel, Absolute Spa Group) and Pacific Autism Family Network co-founder, is British Columbia's 31st Lieutenant Governor, appointed December 2024 and sworn in January 30, 2025.

Wendy Makkena

Wendy Makkena, American actress (born 1958 or 1963 depending on source), best known as Sister Mary Robert in Sister Act and Sister Act 2, Broadway's Side Man, and founder of Ruby's Rockets.

Wendy Matthews

Wendy Matthews (Wendy Joan Matthews, born 1960, Montreal) is a Canadian-born Australian singer-songwriter, member of Models and Absent Friends; three-time ARIA Best Female Artist known for "Token Angels" and "The Day You Went Away."

Wendy Melvoin

Wendy Melvoin (Wendy Ann Melvoin, born 1964) is an American guitarist and composer, formerly of Prince's band The Revolution (Purple Rain, Around the World in a Day, Parade) and one half of the Emmy-winning composing duo Wendy & Lisa with Lisa Coleman, known for Heroes and Nurse Jackie scores.

Wendy Mitchell (activist)

Wendy Mitchell (1956-2024), English dementia activist diagnosed with young-onset Alzheimer's and vascular dementia at 58, author of Somebody I Used to Know and two further bestsellers, NHS worker, blogger, and assisted-dying advocate.

Wendy Moniz

Wendy Moniz (Wendy Moniz-Grillo), born 1969, Kansas City, Missouri, is an American actress known for Dinah Marler on Guiding Light and Governor Lynelle Perry on Yellowstone, plus The Guardian, Nash Bridges, and Law & Order: Organized Crime.

Wendy Moore (television personality)

Wendy Moore is an Australian magazine editor and TV personality, editor of Home Beautiful, judge on House Rules (2013-2019), co-host of Foxtel's Selling Houses Australia, and former Foxtel executive. Distinct from the English historian Wendy Moore.

Wendy O. Williams

Wendy O. Williams (Wendy Orlean Williams, 1949–1998), American punk and shock-rock singer, lead vocalist of the Plasmatics; famed for chainsawing guitars and onstage mayhem, banned by the GLC, 1985 Grammy nominee. Not the talk show host Wendy Williams.

Wendy Quirk

Wendy Quirk (Wendy Patricia Quirk-Johnson), born 1959 in Montréal, Canadian butterfly and freestyle swimmer; 1976 Olympic finalist, triple 1978 Commonwealth gold medallist, 1978 World bronze medallist, barred from Moscow 1980 by Canada's boycott.

Oct 22, 2026

Wendy Ramshaw

Wendy Ramshaw (1939–2018) was a British artist and designer from Sunderland who transformed jewelry through sculptural stacking ring sets and large-scale metalwork; her work sits in over 70 museum collections.

Wendy Raquel Robinson

Wendy Raquel Robinson (born 1967) is an American actress known as Regina "Piggy" Grier on The Steve Harvey Show and Tasha Mack on The Game, and co-founder of Amazing Grace Conservatory in Los Angeles.

Oct 22, 2026

Wendy Red Star

Wendy Red Star (born 1981, Billings, Montana) is an Apsáalooke (Crow) multimedia artist whose photography and archival works challenge colonial narratives; she won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2024.

Wendy Richard

Wendy Richard (Wendy Emerton, 1943-2009), English actress, played Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served? and Pauline Fowler in EastEnders from 1985 to 2006; MBE 2000.

Sep 27, 2026

Wendy Rogers (Arizona politician)

Wendy Rogers is an American Republican politician and retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who was elected to the Arizona Senate in 2020, representing the 7th district since 2021.

Oct 22, 2026

Wendy Rose

Wendy Rose, born Bronwen Elizabeth Edwards in 1948, is an American poet and anthropologist of Hopi, Miwok, and European descent whose collection Lost Copper was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Sep 20, 2026

Wendy S. Garrett

Wendy S. Garrett is an American immunologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who studies gut microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer.

Wendy Schaal

Wendy Schaal (born 1954, Chicago) is an American actress known for Joe Dante films Innerspace, The 'Burbs, and Small Soldiers, and as the voice of Francine Smith on American Dad! since 2005; daughter of actor Richard Schaal.

Wendy Schaeffer

Wendy Schaeffer (Wendy Lynn Schaeffer, born 1974) is an Australian eventing rider who won team gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics riding Sunburst, nine weeks after breaking her leg.

Sep 19, 2026

Wendy Shay

Wendy Shay, born Wendy Asiamah Addo, is a Ghanaian afro-pop and afrobeats singer-songwriter signed to RuffTown Records in 2018 and known for her debut single "Uber Driver".

Wendy Sherman

Wendy R. Sherman (born 1949) is an American diplomat, 21st and first female U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (2021–2023), lead negotiator of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA), and Biden's point person on China and pre-invasion talks with Russia.