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Wenyu Huang
Wenyu Huang is a chemist and professor at Iowa State University and a faculty scientist at Ames National Laboratory, known for nanostructured catalysts that convert plastic waste.
Wenyu Zhao
Wenyu Zhao (赵文宇), Chinese rifle shooter born 2001, competes in 50m rifle 3 positions and prone; two Asian silvers 2025, prone team world record 1881.3 at Cairo 2025, sixth at 2025 World Cup Final Doha.
Wenyuan Yinghua
Wenyuan Yinghua (文苑英华) is a 1,000-juan Chinese literary anthology compiled on imperial order by Li Fang and Hu Meng, the largest extant medieval Chinese anthology.
Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg
Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, was an Austrian statesman who served as Habsburg state chancellor and foreign minister from 1753 to 1792, engineering the Diplomatic Revolution that allied Austria with France against Prussia.
Wenzhi Tian
Wenzhi Tian (田文志) is a Chinese tumor immunologist and biotech entrepreneur who founded ImmuneOnco Biopharmaceuticals in Shanghai in 2015, serving as its chairman, CEO, and chief scientific officer.
Wenzhou (温州)
Wenzhou (温州) is a coastal prefecture-level city in southeastern Zhejiang Province, China, known as the birthplace of China's private economy and a former trading port whose GDP passed 1 trillion yuan in 2025.
Wenzhou Botanical Garden
Wenzhou Botanical Garden (温州园博园南园) is a planned comprehensive botanical garden in Ouhai District, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, created by converting the 84-hectare South Garden of the Wenzhou Garden Expo Park after the 15th China International Garden Expo ends in July 2026.
Wenzhou LNG Terminal
The Wenzhou LNG Terminal (浙能温州LNG接收站) is a liquefied natural gas import terminal on Xiaomen Island in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, which received its first cargo in August 2023.
Wenzhou Medical University
Wenzhou Medical University (温州医科大学), a provincial medical university in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, founded 1912, renamed 2013; known for pioneering integrated ophthalmology and optometry and its Eye Hospital's three national research platforms.
Wenzhun
Wenzhun (文准, 1061–1115), fully Zhantang Wenjun, was a Chan Buddhist monk of the Linji lineage who led a monastery on Mt. Shimen in Jiangxi and taught Dahui Zonggao.
Wenzi
The Wenzi (文子) is a Daoist treatise attributed to a disciple of Laozi, known through a 12-chapter received text and a bamboo manuscript found in 1973.
Wepemnofret
Wepemnofret, also written Wepemnefret, was a prince of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty and a son of King Khufu, known from a limestone slab stela excavated at Giza in 1903.
Wepre Park
Wepre Park (Parc Gwepra) is a 160-acre country park in Connah's Quay, Flintshire, Wales, with ancient woodland, Ewloe Castle, Old Hall Gardens, a waterfall on Wepre Brook, and around 200,000 visitors a year.
Wepwawet
Wepwawet, also called Upuaut or Ophois, is an ancient Egyptian jackal god, "Opener of the Ways," whose standard led processions and who was worshiped chiefly at Asyut.
Wepwawetemsaf
Wepwawetemsaf, with the throne name Sekhemra-neferkhau, was a pharaoh of the late Second Intermediate Period of Egypt, attested almost entirely by a single stela from Abydos and possibly a graffito at Beni Hasan.
Werckmeister Harmonies
Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák) is Béla Tarr's 2000 black-and-white Hungarian film, adapted from Krasznahorkai's The Melancholy of Resistance, about a circus whale and the unseen Prince inciting a small town; 145 minutes, 39 shots. Not the Wrekmeister Harmonies music project.
Werecat
Werecat (ailuranthrope): feline shapeshifter of folklore and fantasy, the cat analog of the werewolf; term coined late 19th century, covering European witch-cats, Garo weretigers, and werejaguars.
Weregild
Weregild, also spelled wergeld, was a fixed payment compensating for the killing or wounding of a free person, serving as an alternative to blood feud in early medieval Germanic law.
Weren't for the Wind
"Weren't for the Wind" is a 2024 country song by Ella Langley from Still Hungover, written in Wyoming with Johnny Clawson and Joybeth Taylor; it hit No. 18 on the Hot 100 and was her first solo country radio No. 1.
Werenfried van Straaten
Werenfried van Straaten (1913–2003) was a Dutch Norbertine priest, nicknamed the Bacon Priest, who founded the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need in 1947 to help Germans expelled from Eastern Europe.
Werenoi
Werenoi (Jérémy Bana Owona, 1994-2025), French rapper from Montreuil; France's No. 1 album seller in 2023 and 2024 (Carré, Pyramide); died in Paris at 31, five weeks after releasing Diamant Noir.
Weret-yamtes
Weret-yamtes was a royal wife of Pepi I, a 6th Dynasty king of Egypt's Old Kingdom, accused in a harem conspiracy recorded in Weni's autobiography.
Werewere Liking
Werewere Liking is a Cameroonian-born novelist, playwright, and performer based in Côte d'Ivoire since 1978, known for creating ritual theater and founding the Ki-Yi community in Abidjan in 1985.
Werewolf
Werewolf: in folklore, a human transformed into or able to assume wolf form; Old English werwulf (man-wolf). Ancient roots in the Lycaon myth and Petronius' Satyricon, medieval tales like Bisclavret, early modern trials, and medical lycanthropy.
Werewolf by Night
Werewolf by Night (Jack Russell, Jacob Russoff) is a Marvel Comics werewolf hero debuting in Marvel Spotlight #2 (February 1972), with a 43-issue 1972-1977 series that introduced Moon Knight, and a 2022 black-and-white Disney+ MCU special directed by Michael Giacchino.
Werewolf by Night (TV special)
Werewolf by Night is Marvel Studios' first Special Presentation, a 54-minute black-and-white horror special directed and scored by Michael Giacchino, released on Disney+ October 7, 2022, starring Gael García Bernal as Jack Russell with Elsa Bloodstone and Man-Thing.
Werewolf in Slavic mythology
The Slavic werewolf (volkolak, wilkołak, vukodlak) is a man who transforms into a wolf by sorcery or another's magic; among South Slavs the term largely means vampire, and the belief spans all Slavic lands with regional variants.
Werewolves (film)
Werewolves is a 2024 American action horror film directed by Steven C. Miller. It stars Frank Grillo as a marine fighting werewolves triggered by a supermoon.
Werewolves of London
Werewolves of London: 1978 rock song by Warren Zevon, LeRoy Marinell, and Waddy Wachtel from Excitable Boy, written in 15 minutes after a Phil Everly suggestion, featuring Fleetwood Mac's rhythm section, peaking at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Werewolves of Ossory
Werewolves of Ossory (Osraige), legendary wolf-people of a medieval Irish kingdom in Counties Kilkenny and Laois, recorded by Gerald of Wales in Topographia Hibernica: a seven-year curse, a priest giving the Eucharist to a dying she-wolf, and royal descent from Laignech Faelad.