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Wildman Whitehouse
Wildman Whitehouse (Edward Orange Wildman Whitehouse, 1816–1890) was an English surgeon who was chief electrician of the Atlantic Telegraph Company and was blamed for the 1858 cable's failure.
Wildmere Oil and Gas Field
Wildmere is a designated heavy crude oil field in east central Alberta, about 200 kilometers southeast of Edmonton, known for waterflooding and an early electromagnetic heating trial.
Wildon
Wildon: a Styrian town whose football club SV Wildon (founded 1948, Landesliga Steiermark, Stadion Wildon, 500 seats) is the main topic, plus a Yorkshire Domesday settlement of 1086 held by Hugh son of Baldric.
Wildspitze
Wildspitze (Ötztaler Wildspitze), 3,768 m south summit, is a glaciated double-summit peak in the Ötztal Alps, Tyrol, Austria's second highest mountain after Großglockner, first climbed in 1848 by Leander Klotz, with 2,261 m prominence.
Wildstone
Wildstone is a British owner of outdoor advertising infrastructure, founded in London in 2010 by Damian Cox and owned by Antin Infrastructure Partners since 2022.
Wildstylez
Wildstylez is the stage name of Joram Metekohy, a Dutch hardstyle DJ and producer from Veenendaal known for Project One with Headhunterz and Defqon.1 anthems.
Wildwater canoeing world championships
ICF Wildwater Canoeing World Championships, first held 1959 in Treignac, France; biennial classic titles since 2002 with sprint, plus annual sprint-only worlds since 2011; 2026 host Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Wildwood (film)
Wildwood (2026) is Laika's sixth stop-motion feature, directed by Travis Knight and adapted by Chris Butler from Colin Meloy's 2011 novel. Released October 23, 2026 by Fathom Entertainment, rated PG-13, 132 minutes, with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes at release.
Wildwood: Follow the Crows
Wildwood: Follow the Crows is a free Portland, Oregon public art trail of 30 hand-painted crow sculptures launched August 7, 2026 by LAIKA and Wild in Art, benefiting OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital and promoting the stop-motion film Wildwood.
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner: Warner Bros. cartoon duo created by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese, debuting in 1949's Fast and Furry-ous. Known for the nine Jones rules, Acme products, Paul Julian's beep-beep, and the 2026 film Coyote vs. Acme.
Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is Andrew Wiles's 1995 proof that every semistable elliptic curve over the rationals is modular, from which Fermat's 350-year-old conjecture follows.
Wiley (musician)
Wiley (Richard Kylea Cowie, born 1979), also Eskiboy, the Godfather of Grime: East London producer-MC who created Eskibeat, founded Roll Deep and Eskimo Dance, and scored UK hits including Wearing My Rolex and Heatwave.
Wiley (publisher)
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons, NYSE: WLY), founded 1807 in New York, is an academic and STM publisher with 2,000+ journals; segments Research and Learning; FY2024 revenue $1,873M; CEO Matthew Kissner since 2024.
Wiley Post
Wiley Post (Wiley Hardeman Post, 1898 to 1935) was an American aviator who twice set the around-the-world flight record and made the first solo flight around the world in 1933.
Wiley Rutledge
Wiley Blount Rutledge (1894-1949), American jurist, FDR's last Supreme Court appointee (1943-1949), former dean of Washington University and Iowa law schools, known for Yamashita and Everson dissents and civil liberties advocacy.
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is the STM and scholarly publishing business formed in 2007 when John Wiley & Sons bought Blackwell Publishing for £572 million ($1.1 billion) and merged it with Wiley's STM unit; publishes ~1,242 journals.
Wilf White
Wilf White (Wilfrid Harry White, 1904–1995) was a British show jumper and Cheshire farmer who won team gold at the 1952 Olympics and team bronze in 1956, both riding Nizefela.
Wilford Brimley
Wilford Brimley (1934–2020), American character actor of Cocoon, The Natural, The Thing, and The Firm; also Quaker Oats pitchman and Liberty Medical diabetes spokesman famous for "diabeetus."
Wilford F. Weeks
Wilford F. Weeks, known as Willy, was an American glaciologist and sea ice geophysicist at CRREL and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979.
Wilford Frank Weeks
Wilford Frank Weeks, known as Willy, was an American glaciologist who studied sea ice growth and structure at CRREL and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and wrote On Sea Ice.
Wilford Lash Robbins
Wilford Lash Robbins (1859–1927) was an American Episcopal clergyman who led All Saints' Cathedral in Albany and became dean of the General Theological Seminary in 1903.
Wilford R. Gardner
Wilford R. Gardner (1925–2011) was an American soil physicist and National Academy of Sciences member whose equations for soil water flow still carry his name.
Wilfred A. van der Donk
Wilfred A. van der Donk is a Dutch-born American enzymologist and chemical biologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for work on RiPP and phosphonate natural product biosynthesis.
Wilfred Benítez
Wilfred Benítez (Wilfredo Benítez), born 1958, Bronx, is a Puerto Rican boxer, the youngest world champion ever at 17 years 176 days, and a three-division titlist (WBA 140, WBC 147, WBC 154) who beat Cervantes, Palomino, and Durán.
Wilfred Bouma
Wilfred Bouma (born 1978) is a Dutch former defender who played 351 official matches for PSV Eindhoven across two spells and 83 Premier League games for Aston Villa (2005-2010), retiring in 2013; now Jong PSV assistant trainer.
Wilfred Bungei
Wilfred Bungei (Wilfred Kipkemboi Bungei), Kenyan 800 m runner born 1980 in Kabirisang; 2008 Beijing Olympic 800 m gold medallist in 1:44.65, 2006 World Indoor champion, personal best 1:42.34.
Wilfred Corrigan
Wilfred Corrigan is a semiconductor executive who founded and led LSI Logic from 1981 to 2005 after serving as president and chief executive of Fairchild Camera and Instrument.
Wilfred D. Iwan
Wilfred D. Iwan, known as Bill Iwan (1935–2020), was an American earthquake engineer and Caltech professor emeritus known for the Iwan model of hysteresis and leadership in strong-motion earthquake instrumentation.
Wilfred F. van Gunsteren
Wilfred F. van Gunsteren, born 1947 in the Netherlands, is a Dutch and Swiss computational scientist, professor emeritus at ETH Zurich, and a founder of biomolecular molecular dynamics simulation.
Wilfred G. van der Wiel
Wilfred G. van der Wiel (born 1975) is a Dutch physicist, professor of nanoelectronics at the University of Twente, known for material learning in disordered nanomaterials.