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Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston
Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston, born Wilfred Simpson, was a British geologist known for his work on the Jurassic system and for presiding over the Geological Society of London.
Wilfred Kirwa Kigen
Wilfred Kirwa Kigen (born 1986) is a Kenyan marathon runner; personal best 2:06:47 (Abu Dhabi 2024), 2022 Kigali Peace Marathon winner, third at the 2025 Taipei Marathon. Distinct from the older Frankfurt winner Wilfred Kigen.
Wilfred Ndidi
Wilfred Onyinye Ndidi (born 1996, Lagos) is a Nigerian defensive midfielder for Beşiktaş, formerly of Genk and Leicester City, a Premier League tackling leader, 2018 World Cup player, and FA Cup and Championship winner.
Wilfred Nichol
Wilfred Paulin Nichol (1901-1955), British sprinter with Highgate Harriers; 1924 Paris Olympics silver medallist in the 4x100 m relay (anchor leg, 41.2), also ran 100 m and 200 m; runner-up to Eric Liddell in the 1923 AAA 100 yards.
Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (1893–1918), British First World War poet and officer, killed at Ors on 4 November 1918, a week before the Armistice. Known for 'Dulce et Decorum Est', 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', pararhyme, his friendship with Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart, and the Military Cross.
Wilfredo Colón
Wilfredo Colón is a Puerto Rican American biochemist who heads the chemistry department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and studies protein folding, misfolding, and hyperstable, degradation-resistant proteins linked to disease.
Wilfredo F. Garcia-Beltran
Wilfredo F. Garcia-Beltran is a Puerto Rican-born immunologist and transfusion medicine physician who leads a laboratory at the Ragon Institute and studies natural killer cells for cancer therapy.
Wilfredo León
Wilfredo León Venero, Cuban-born Polish volleyball outside hitter (born 1993, Santiago de Cuba). World silver 2010 with Cuba, four Champions League titles with Zenit Kazan, Olympic silver 2024 and back-to-back EuroVolley MVP with Poland; serve up to 138 km/h.
Wilfrid
Wilfrid (c. 634–709) was a Northumbrian bishop and monastic founder who championed Roman practice at the Synod of Whitby in 664 and built churches at Ripon and Hexham.
Wilfrid Brambell
Wilfrid Brambell (1912–1985), Irish actor born Henry Wilfrid Brambell in Dublin, played Albert Steptoe in the BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son and Paul McCartney's grandfather in A Hard Day's Night (1964).
Wilfrid Forgues
Wilfrid Forgues, now Sandra Forgues, French slalom canoeist born 1969 in Tarbes; with Franck Adisson won C2 slalom gold at Atlanta 1996 and bronze at Barcelona 1992, and transitioned beginning 2016.
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Wilfrid Hyde-White (1903–1991), English character actor of stage, film, and TV; also billed Hyde White. Best known as Colonel Pickering in My Fair Lady (1964), Crabbin in The Third Man, twice Tony-nominated.
Wilfrid Laurier
Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1841–1919), born Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier, was a Canadian politician, the seventh prime minister from 1896 to 1911, and the first Francophone in the office.
Wilfrid Le Gros Clark
Wilfrid Le Gros Clark (1895–1971) was a British anatomist and physical anthropologist, Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy at Oxford, who exposed the Piltdown Man forgery and defended the australopithecines as human ancestors.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), English poet, diplomat, and anti-imperialist; husband of Lady Anne Blunt, cofounder of the Crabbet Arabian Stud; imprisoned in Ireland 1887; author of Love Sonnets of Proteus, The Future of Islam, and My Diaries.
Wilfrid Tatham
Wilfrid George (Gus) Tatham (1898-1978), British middle-distance runner and hurdler; 1924 and 1928 Olympian, 440y hurdles AAA champion 1924, Oxbridge 4x880y world record at the 1920 Penn Relays, later Eton master and Saint Helena archivist.
Wilfrid Voynich
Wilfrid Michael Voynich (1865-1930), Polish-born revolutionary exile turned antiquarian bookseller in London, Florence, and New York; bought the undeciphered Voynich manuscript (Beinecke MS 408) from Jesuits in Italy in 1912.
Wilfried Bony
Wilfried Bony is an Ivorian former footballer, a striker who won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations and was the Premier League's top scorer in 2014.
Wilfried Brutsaert
Wilfried Brutsaert is a Belgian-born American hydrologist and Cornell professor known as "Mr Evaporation" who won the 2022 Stockholm Water Prize for quantifying environmental evaporation.
Wilfried Dietrich
Wilfried Dietrich (1933-1992), the 'Kran von Schifferstadt', West German heavyweight wrestler who won a record five Olympic medals 1956-1968, took 1960 freestyle gold, and threw Chris Taylor in the 1972 'Jahrhundertwurf'.
Wilfried Dufaud
Wilfried Dufaud is a French aerospace engineer who spent 2000 to 2016 in Airbus structures work before co-founding the aircraft manufacturer AURA AERO in Toulouse in 2018.
Wilfried Gnonto
Wilfried Gnonto (Degnand Wilfried Gnonto), Italian forward born 2003 in Verbania; ex-Inter academy, FC Zürich 2021/22 Swiss title winner, Leeds United from 2022, loaned to Fiorentina in September 2026; Italy international with 14 caps, 5 goals.
Wilfried Grobner
Wilfried Gröbner (Grobner), born 1949 in Eilenburg, East German defender and coach; 1976 Montreal Olympic football gold medalist with Lokomotive Leipzig, later coach and scout.
Wilfried Haensch
Wilfried Haensch is a device physicist known for carbon nanotube transistors and memristive neuromorphic computing, who led novel-device research at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center from 2001 to 2018.
Wilfried Huber
Wilfried Huber, Italian luger born 1970 in Brunico, South Tyrol; Olympic doubles gold with Kurt Brugger at Lillehammer 1994; six Winter Games 1988-2006; youngest of four medal-winning Huber brothers.
Wilfried Schmid
Wilfried Schmid is a German-born American mathematician, now professor emeritus at Harvard, known for constructing the discrete series representations of Lie groups, proving Blattner's conjecture, and his Hodge-theoretic work.
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller is a French ecological modeller and director of research at CNRS, leading the Laboratoire d'Écologie Alpine in Grenoble and known for species distribution modeling and the biomod2 software.
Wilfried Weber
Wilfried Weber is a German synthetic biologist working on mammalian gene circuits, optogenetics, and biohybrid materials, and Scientific Director of the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials since 2023.
Wilfried Zaha
Wilfried Zaha (Dazet Wilfried Armel Zaha), born 1992 in Abidjan, Ivorian winger; Crystal Palace record Premier League scorer, brief Manchester United spell, later Galatasaray and Charlotte FC, Ivory Coast international.
Wilh. Wilhelmsen Holding
Wilh. Wilhelmsen Holding ASA is a Norwegian maritime holding company, parent of the shipping group founded in Tønsberg, Norway, in 1861 by Morten Wilhelm Wilhelmsen.