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Wallace Fard Muhammad
Wallace Fard Muhammad, also W.D. Fard, was the preacher who founded the Nation of Islam in Detroit in 1930 and vanished from view in 1934.
Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford, also known as Wally Ford, was an American character actor who moved from wise-cracking 1930s B pictures to supporting roles in film noir and Westerns.
Wallace H. Coulter
Wallace H. Coulter (1913–1998) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and bioengineering pioneer who created the Coulter principle, the electrical method underlying the automated blood cell counter.
Wallace Huo (霍建华)
Wallace Huo (霍建华, Huo Jianhua), Taiwanese actor and singer born 1979 in Taipei; mainland breakthrough roles include Xu Changqing in Chinese Paladin 3, Bai Zihua in The Journey of Flower, and the Qianlong Emperor in Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace; married to Ruby Lin.
Wallace J. Hopp
Wallace J. Hopp is an American operations researcher and University of Michigan professor known for the Factory Physics framework, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.
Wallace L. W. Sargent
Wallace L. W. Sargent (1935–2012) was a British-born American astronomer at Caltech, considered the father of quasar absorption-line spectroscopy, who in 1986 reported the highest-redshift quasar then known.
Wallace L.M. Alward
Wallace L.M. Alward is an American ophthalmologist and glaucoma specialist, emeritus professor at the University of Iowa, whose group described the first genetic linkage for open-angle glaucoma in 1993.
Wallace Langham
Wallace Langham (James Wallace Langham II), American actor born 1965 in Fort Worth, Texas; known as Phil on The Larry Sanders Show, Josh Blair on Veronica's Closet, and David Hodges on CSI and CSI: Vegas.
Wallace Line
Wallace Line: faunal boundary proposed by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1863 between Bali-Lombok, Borneo-Sulawesi, and Philippines-Moluccas, separating Oriental from Australasian realms; named by Huxley 1868; Wallacea transition zone lies between it and Lydekker's line.
Wallace Marshall
Wallace F. Marshall is an American cell biologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for studying organelle size control and regeneration in single cells.
Wallace McCain
Wallace McCain, known as Wally McCain, was a Canadian businessman who co-founded McCain Foods in 1956, then bought and chaired Maple Leaf Foods until his death in 2011.
Wallace Monument
The National Wallace Monument is a 220-foot Victorian Gothic tower on the Abbey Craig near Stirling, Scotland, built to commemorate Sir William Wallace and opened in 1869.
Wallace Osgood Fenn
Wallace Osgood Fenn was an American physiologist at the University of Rochester, best known for the Fenn effect and for wartime research founding pulmonary mechanics.
Wallace P. Rowe
Wallace P. Rowe (1926–1983) was an American virologist and physician-scientist at NIAID, co-discoverer of the adenovirus group in 1953, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.
Wallace R. Brode
Wallace R. Brode (1900–1974) was an American organic chemist who developed applied spectroscopy, wrote the textbook Chemical Spectroscopy, and served as president of the American Chemical Society.
Wallace Reid
Wallace Reid (William Wallace Reid, 1891–1923), American silent-film actor called "the screen's most perfect lover"; starred in over 60 Lasky/Paramount films, became addicted to morphine after a 1919 train-crash injury, and died at 31 in a sanitarium.
Wallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn (born 1943), American playwright and character actor, son of New Yorker editor William Shawn; wrote The Fever and My Dinner with André, played Vizzini in The Princess Bride, voices Rex in Toy Story.
Wallace Sititi
Wallace Sititi (Wallace Bangalore Sititi), born 2002, New Zealand rugby union loose forward, All Black No. 1218 and Chiefs number eight; son of Samoa captain Semo Sititi; 2024 World Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year and All Blacks Player of the Year.
Wallace Souza
Wallace Souza (Wallace Leandro de Souza, born 1987, São Paulo), Brazilian opposite spiker; Olympic gold Rio 2016, silver London 2012, fourth Tokyo 2020 with Brazil.
Wallace Spearmon
Wallace Spearmon Jr. (Wallace Spearmon, Jr.), American 200m sprinter born 1984 in Chicago; 19.65 PB, 2005 World silver, 2007/2009 bronze, 2007 4x100 gold, 2008 and 2012 Olympian, now USATF executive.
Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) was an American novelist, historian, and environmentalist who wrote about the American West and won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Angle of Repose.
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) was an American poet and Hartford insurance executive whose first book, Harmonium (1923), became a landmark of modern poetry; he won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize.
Wallace Sword
The Wallace Sword, also called the Sword of William Wallace, is a large two-handed sword displayed at the National Wallace Monument in Stirling, Scotland, though historians regard it as a composite weapon.
Wallace tree
A Wallace tree is a parallel digital circuit for summing binary numbers, combining bits in groups of three with carry-save adders, described by Chris Wallace in 1964.
Wallace Yan
Wallace Yan (Wallace Yan de Souza Barreto, born 2005), Brazilian right-footed attacker from Flamengo's academy; 2024 U20 Libertadores top scorer, scored vs Chelsea at the 2025 Club World Cup, sold to RB Bragantino in 2026 for €6 million.
Wallacea
Wallacea is the biogeographical region of eastern Indonesian islands, including Sulawesi, the Moluccas, and the Lesser Sundas, between Wallace's and Lydekker's lines, separated by deep-water straits from the Sunda and Sahul shelves and never land-connected to either, with high endemism.
Wallachia
Wallachia (Țara Românească, Eflak), a lower-Danube principality founded by Basarab I in the 14th century, an Ottoman tributary vassal with internal autonomy, Phanariot princes 1716–1821, united with Moldavia in 1859 to form Romania.
Wallachian anti-Ottoman revolt of 1594
The Wallachian anti-Ottoman revolt of 1594 was an armed uprising by Wallachia's prince, Michael the Brave, begun in Bucharest in November 1594 with the killing of Ottoman creditors and soldiers.
Wallachian Revolt of 1821
The Wallachian Revolt of 1821 (Răscoala lui Tudor Vladimirescu) was an armed rising led by Tudor Vladimirescu against Phanariot rule in Wallachia, beginning in January 1821.
Wallachian Revolution of 1848
The Wallachian Revolution of 1848 was a liberal uprising that overthrew Wallachia's reigning prince in June 1848 before Ottoman and Russian forces suppressed it that September.