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Waldemar Bastos
Waldemar Bastos (1954–2020) was an Angolan singer-songwriter and guitarist who blended afropop with fado and Brazilian influences; he defected into exile in 1982 and broke through internationally with Pretaluz (1998).
Waldemar Baszanowski
Waldemar Baszanowski (1935–2011), Polish weightlifter, double Olympic lightweight champion (Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968), five-time world champion, 24 world records, later EWF president.
Waldemar Christofer Brøgger
Waldemar Christofer Brøgger (1851–1940) was a Norwegian geologist and mineralogist who pioneered magmatic differentiation theory through decades of study of the Oslo region's Permian igneous rocks.
Waldemar Cierpinski
Waldemar Cierpinski (Hannes Waldemar Cierpinski, born 1950) is an East German/German former marathon runner, Olympic champion in 1976 (2:09:55) and 1980 (2:11:03), the second man after Abebe Bikila to win two Olympic marathons.
Waldemar Dalenogare Neto
Waldemar Dalenogare Neto, known as Dalenogare, is a Brazilian film critic, historian, and professor from Porto Alegre; first South American member of the Critics Choice Association (2020) and creator of the YouTube channel Dalenogare Críticas.
Waldemar de Oliveira Verdi
Waldemar de Oliveira Verdi, known as Waldemar Verdi, was a Brazilian entrepreneur who founded the Empresas Rodobens group in São José do Rio Preto in 1949.
Waldemar Haffkine
Waldemar Haffkine, also known as Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine, was a bacteriologist from Odessa who developed cholera and plague vaccines and pioneered controlled field trials in India.
Waldemar Jungner
Waldemar Jungner (Ernst Waldemar Jungner, 1869–1924) was a Swedish engineer who patented the alkaline storage battery in 1899 and founded the battery company that became Saft.
Waldemar Lindgren
Waldemar Lindgren (1860–1939) was a Swedish-born American economic geologist, the foremost authority of his time on ore deposits in the United States and a National Academy of Sciences member.
Waldemar Tietgens
Waldemar Tietgens (Oscar Waldemar Tietgens, 1879–1917), German rower of Germania Ruder Club Hamburg; Olympic gold in coxed fours at Paris 1900, fourth in the eights; killed in action in Flanders in World War I.
Walden
Walden; or, Life in the Woods is Henry David Thoreau's 1854 account of living two years, two months, and two days in a cabin at Walden Pond on Emerson's land, a foundational text of American environmentalism and Transcendentalism.
Walden C. Rhines
Walden C. Rhines is an American semiconductor and EDA executive who was CEO of Mentor Graphics from 1993 to 2017, after 21 years at Texas Instruments.
Walden Catalyst Ventures
Walden Catalyst Ventures is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Lip-Bu Tan and Young Sohn, investing in early-stage deep technology startups.
Walden Clark Rhines
Walden Clark Rhines, known as Wally Rhines, is an American semiconductor executive who led Mentor Graphics for over 23 years and became Silvaco's CEO in 2025.
Walden International
Walden International (华登国际) is a San Francisco venture capital firm founded by Lip-Bu Tan in 1987, investing over $5 billion in technology companies across the US and Asia.
Walden inversion
Walden inversion is the inversion of stereochemical configuration at a stereocenter during a reaction, named for Paul Walden, whose 1896 malic acid work first showed it.
Walden Media
Walden Media (Walden Media, LLC) is an American independent film studio founded in 2000 by Micheal Flaherty and Cary Granat, owned by Philip Anschutz via Anschutz Film Group, known for The Chronicles of Narnia films, Holes, Bridge to Terabithia, The Baby-Sitters Club, and the Walden Pond Press imprint.
Walden Pond
Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts: glacial kettle lake, deepest in Massachusetts, no inlet or outlet, 24.88 ha. Henry David Thoreau lived there 1845-1847 and wrote Walden; now a DCR state reservation and National Historical and Literary Landmark.
Walden University
Walden University: private for-profit online university in Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded 1970 by Bernie and Rita Turner for working adults; HLC-accredited since 1990, known for nursing, education, public health, and social work programs and a 2022 $28.5 million settlement.
Waldensians
The Waldensians, also known as Valdesi, are followers of a lay evangelical movement founded around 1170 by Waldo of Lyon, later joining the Calvinist Reformation.
Waldenström macroglobulinemia
Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM), also called lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma, is an indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma with bone marrow infiltration and monoclonal IgM; MYD88 L265P in over 90% of cases, treated with rituximab chemoimmunotherapy or BTK inhibitors.
Waldo Cortes-Acosta
Waldo "Salsa Boy" Cortes-Acosta, Dominican UFC heavyweight (born 1991, Fundación, Barahona), former Cincinnati Reds minor league pitcher turned MMA fighter; 17-4 pro, 10-4 UFC, five-fight streak ended by Pavlovich, KO wins over Lewis, Gaziev, Delija.
Waldo Holdings
Waldo Holdings is the Israel-based private investment company and family office of Eyal Waldman, co-founder and longtime chief executive of Mellanox Technologies, established after Nvidia's 2020 acquisition.
Waldo R. Tobler
Waldo R. Tobler (1930–2018) was an American-Swiss geographer and cartographer, professor at the University of Michigan and UC Santa Barbara, best known for the first law of geography.
Waldo Rudolph Wedel
Waldo Rudolph Wedel (1908–1996) was an American archaeologist who spent his entire career at the Smithsonian Institution and established the foundations of Great Plains archaeology, earning election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1965.
Waldorf Astoria New York
Waldorf Astoria New York, also known as the Waldorf-Astoria, is a landmarked Art Deco luxury hotel on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, opened in 1931 and operated by Hilton.
Waldorf education
Waldorf education, or Steiner education, is a school movement founded by Rudolf Steiner in Stuttgart on 7 September 1919 for workers' children of the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory, based on anthroposophy, with arts-integrated, developmentally staged pedagogy and over 1,100 schools worldwide.
Waldron Mercy Academy
Waldron Mercy Academy is a private co-ed Catholic school in Merion Station, Pennsylvania, sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy, serving infants through grade 8; formed in 1987 by merging Waldron Academy for Boys (1923) with Merion Mercy Academy's lower school, and a three-time National Blue Ribbon School.
Waldstadion (Frankfurt)
Waldstadion (Deutsche Bank Park), Frankfurt's 1925 stadium in the Sportpark, home of Eintracht Frankfurt; rebuilt 2002–2005 with the world's largest retractable roof; 60,100 capacity; hosted 1974/2006 World Cups, Euro 2024, and 2023 NFL games.
Wale (rapper)
Wale (Olubowale Victor Akintimehin, born 1984) is a Washington, D.C. rapper known for go-go-influenced hip-hop, Seinfeld-themed mixtapes, and Billboard 200 No. 1 albums The Gifted and The Album About Nothing.