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Wilaya de Bordj Bou Arréridj
Wilaya de Bordj Bou Arréridj (ولاية برج بوعريريج), Algerian wilaya no. 34 on the eastern Hauts Plateaux; capital Bordj Bou Arreridj city; 628,475 people (2008), 34 communes, 10 daïras, electronics industry hub.
Wilbert Awdry
Wilbert Awdry (Wilbert Vere Awdry, 1911–1997), English Anglican clergyman and railway enthusiast, created The Railway Series and Thomas the Tank Engine, writing 26 books set on the fictional Island of Sodor from 1945 to 1972, later the basis of the Thomas & Friends television series.
Wilbert Mcclure
Wilbert "Skeeter" McClure (1938-2020), American light middleweight boxer, 1960 Rome Olympic gold medalist, roommate of Cassius Clay; later a psychologist, Northeastern professor, and Massachusetts boxing commissioner.
Wilbert S. Aronow
Wilbert S. Aronow is an American cardiologist, Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College and Director of Cardiology Research at Westchester Medical Center, known for 1970s angina studies.
Wilbour Papyrus
The Wilbour Papyrus is a hieratic administrative papyrus of Egypt's Twentieth Dynasty recording a land survey of Middle Egypt in Year 4 of Ramesses V, held by the Brooklyn Museum.
Wilbour Plaque
The Wilbour Plaque is a small limestone sunk-relief plaque showing Akhenaten and Nefertiti, carved in Egypt around 1352–1336 BCE and now in the Brooklyn Museum.
Wilbur A. Lam
Wilbur A. Lam is an American physician-scientist and pediatric hematologist/oncologist at Emory University and Georgia Tech, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.
Wilbur B. Davenport Jr.
Wilbur B. Davenport Jr. (1920–2003) was an American communications scientist, MIT professor, and head of its electrical engineering and computer science department, known for research on random signals and noise and spread-spectrum communications.
Wilbur Cortez Abbott
Wilbur Cortez Abbott (1869–1947) was an American historian who held a history professorship at Harvard and edited Oliver Cromwell's writings and speeches in four volumes.
Wilbur Ed Bosarge Jr.
Wilbur Ed "Ed" Bosarge Jr., known as Ed Bosarge, is an American mathematician who co-founded Quantlab Financial, a Houston high-frequency trading firm that Forbes reported at times handled 3% of NYSE volume.
Wilbur Fitzgerald
Wilbur Fitzgerald is an American actor and attorney born in 1948. He is known for his supporting roles and for creating Georgia's film tax incentive law.
Wilbur L. Pritchard
Wilbur L. Pritchard (1923–1999) was an American electrical engineer who helped build satellite communications, founding COMSAT Laboratories and cowriting the standard textbook Satellite Communication Systems Engineering.
Wilbur Mills
Wilbur Mills, full name Wilbur Daigh Mills, was an American Democratic congressman from Arkansas who chaired the House Ways and Means Committee from 1958 to 1975 and shaped Medicare.
Wilbur Ross
Wilbur Ross is an American distressed-debt investor known as the King of Bankruptcy who founded WL Ross & Co. and served as the 39th U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
Wilbur Sawyer
Wilbur Augustus Sawyer (1879–1951) was an American public health administrator who directed the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division and produced the first effective yellow fever vaccine.
Wilbur Scoville
Wilbur Scoville was an American pharmacist and analytical chemist at Parke-Davis who invented the Scoville Organoleptic Test in 1912, origin of the Scoville Heat Unit.
Wilbur Smith
Wilbur Addison Smith (1933–2021), Zambian-born South African adventure novelist, author of When the Lion Feeds and the Courtney, Ballantyne, and Ancient Egyptian series; over 140 million books sold in 30 languages.
Wilbur Soot
Wilbur Soot is the online alias of William Patrick Spencer Gold (born 1996), English YouTuber, Twitch streamer, and musician. Known for SootHouse, Dream SMP's L'Manberg, the single "Your New Boyfriend" (UK No. 65, 2020), and fronting the Brighton indie rock band Lovejoy since 2021.
Wilbur Stevenson Smith
Wilbur Stevenson Smith (1911–1990) was an American transportation engineer who founded the consulting firm Wilbur Smith & Associates and helped design the Interstate system, the New Jersey Turnpike, and Washington, D.C. transit.
Wilbur Thompson
Wilbur Marvin "Moose" Thompson (1921–1913... 1921–2013), American shot putter, 1948 London Olympic gold medalist with 17.12 m Olympic record; USC petroleum engineer, world ranked #2 in 1948.
Wilbur Wright
Wilbur Wright (1867–1912) was an American aviation pioneer who, with his brother Orville, invented the first airplane capable of sustained, controlled, powered flight, first flown at Kitty Hawk in 1903.
Wilco
Wilco is an American alternative rock band formed in Chicago in 1994 by Jeff Tweedy after Uncle Tupelo split. Known for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002), rejected by Reprise, streamed free, then released on Nonesuch; 13 albums, one Grammy win.
Wilcon Depot, Inc.
Wilcon Depot, Inc. is a Philippine home improvement retailer founded by William T. Belo in 1977, operating 104 stores and listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange since 2017.
Wilcox rebellion
The Wilcox rebellions were failed armed uprisings led by Robert William Wilcox against the Hawaiian Kingdom's government and the Republic of Hawaii, from 1888 to 1895.
Wilcoxon signed-rank test
The Wilcoxon signed-rank test is a nonparametric test for paired data, proposed by Frank Wilcoxon in 1945 as the rank-based counterpart of the paired t-test.
Wild 'n Out
Wild 'n Out (Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out) is an American improv comedy and battle rap game show created and hosted by Nick Cannon, premiering on MTV July 28, 2005, revived on MTV2 in 2013, later on VH1, with two teams competing in hip-hop improv games ending in the Wildstyle rap battle.
Wild (2014 film)
Wild (2014) is a Jean-Marc Vallée biographical drama, also known by the memoir title Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, adapted by Nick Hornby from Cheryl Strayed's memoir, starring Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern, with two Oscar nominations and $37.7M US gross.
Wild (Katseye EP)
WILD is the third EP by global girl group KATSEYE, released August 14, 2026 via HYBE x Geffen. Six tracks, 17 minutes; lead single Hootie Frutti; debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 despite mixed reviews.
Wild Adventures
Wild Adventures is a 170-acre theme park, water park, and animal park in Valdosta, Georgia, opened in 1996 and owned by Herschend Family Entertainment since its 2007 purchase for $34.5 million. It runs six roller coasters, Splash Island Waterpark, hundreds of animals, and seasonal concerts.
Wild America (film)
Wild America is a 1997 American family adventure film directed by William Dear, loosely based on the teenage years of wildlife filmmakers the Stouffer brothers of Arkansas.