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Wishwa N. Kapoor
Wishwa N. Kapoor, also published as Wishwa Kapoor, is an American general internist at the University of Pittsburgh known for research that reshaped how physicians evaluate syncope, or fainting.
Wishy
Wishy is an Indianapolis indie rock band led by Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites, blending shoegaze, dream pop, and power pop; albums Triple Seven (2024) and Nature's Pill (2026) on Winspear.
Wisin
Wisin, born Juan Luis Morera Luna in 1978 in Cayey, Puerto Rico, is a reggaeton singer and producer best known as one half of Wisin & Yandel.
Wisin & Yandel
Wisin & Yandel (Wisin y Yandel, El Dúo de la Historia) were a Puerto Rican reggaeton duo formed in 1998 in Cayey by Juan Luis Morera Luna and Llandel Veguilla Malavé. Known for Pa'l Mundo, Los Extraterrestres (GRAMMY 2009), and the 2022 farewell album La Última Misión.
Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome
Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome (WAS), also called eczema-thrombocytopenia-immunodeficiency syndrome, is an X-linked primary immunodeficiency caused by WAS gene mutations, causing eczema, microthrombocytopenia, infections, autoimmunity, and lymphoma risk; treated by HSCT and, since 2025, the gene therapy Waskyra.
Wisła Kraków
Wisła Kraków, TS Wisła Kraków, the White Star, is a Kraków multi-sport club founded in 1906, one of Poland's two oldest football clubs, a 12-time Polish champion (last in 2011) and five-time Polish Cup winner (last 2024), playing at the 33,130-seat Henryk Reyman Stadium.
Wisła Płock
Wisła Płock, nicknamed Nafciarze, is a Polish football club founded in 1947 in Płock, playing in the Ekstraklasa. Polish Cup winner 2006, Super Cup 2006; best finishes 4th and 5th; city-owned since 2007.
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012), Polish poet and essayist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature for ironic, precise poetry; about 350 poems, Kraków-based, fifth Polish Nobel laureate in literature.
Wislicenus (Martian crater)
Wislicenus is an 11.39-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 18.17°S, 140.15°E, named for German astronomer Walter Wislicenus (1859-1905); IAU name approved 1973, near Flaugergues and Bakhuysen craters.
Wismar riots
The Wismar riots, also called the Wismar massacre, were an episode of racial violence in May 1964 in which Afro-Guyanese mobs drove roughly 3,000 Indians from Wismar, British Guiana.
Wison Heavy Industry (惠生重工)
Wison Heavy Industry (惠生重工) is a Chinese offshore engineering contractor founded in 2004 in Nantong. It is known for delivering the world's first barge-mounted floating LNG plant.
Wisp (musician)
Wisp is the stage name of Natalie Lu (born 2004), a San Francisco-born shoegaze musician also called nu-gaze, whose 2023 TikTok-viral debut single "Your Face" led to Interscope, the 2024 Pandora EP, and the 2025 debut album If Not Winter.
WISPIT 1
WISPIT 1, also called the WIde Separation Planets In Time 1 system, is a young (~15.6 Myr) K4 + M5.5 stellar binary 230 pc away with two directly imaged gas giants, WISPIT 1 b (338 au, 10.4 Jupiter masses) and WISPIT 1 c (840 au, 5.3 Jupiter masses), discovered in 2025.
Wispr Flow
Wispr Flow is an AI voice dictation app by San Francisco company Wispr that transcribes speech into cleaned-up, formatted text on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android.
Wissam Ben Yedder
Wissam Ben Yedder, born 1990 in Sarcelles, French striker of Toulouse, Sevilla, and AS Monaco (118 club goals), 19 France caps, Nations League 2021 winner; later Sepahan, Sakaryaspor, Wydad AC, with French legal proceedings resolved on appeal in 2026.
Wissam Farhat
Wissam Farhat, Hamas Shejaiya battalion commander (from 2010), attributed by the IDF to the 2002 Atsmona, 2011 Nahal Oz bus, 2014 APC, and October 7 Nahal Oz attacks; killed in an Israeli airstrike announced December 2, 2023. Distinct from the Harvard biomaterials researcher namesake.
WISSARD
WISSARD (Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling) was a US program that first sampled Subglacial Lake Whillans in 2013, revealing microbes beneath the Antarctic ice.
Wistar rat
The Wistar rat is an outbred albino laboratory rat with white fur and red eyes, developed at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia in 1906 for biomedical research.
Wisteria
Wisteria, also called wistaria, is a genus of about five to seven deciduous twining vine species in Fabaceae, including Chinese Wisteria sinensis, Japanese W. floribunda, and native American W. frutescens, known for long fragrant flower racemes and the invasiveness of the Asian species in the US.
Wisteria Lane
Wisteria Lane, also known as Colonial Street at Universal Studios Hollywood, is the fictional Fairview cul-de-sac setting of Desperate Housewives (2004-2012), designed by Thomas A. Walsh and later officially renamed.
Wisting (TV series)
Wisting is a Norwegian crime drama based on Jørn Lier Horst's novels, starring Sven Nordin as Larvik detective William Wisting. Premiered on Viaplay 11 April 2019, ran five seasons to 2025, sold to BBC Four, Carrie-Anne Moss joined season one.
Wiston fort
Wiston fort (Wiston Roman Fort) is a Roman auxiliary fort near Wiston, Pembrokeshire, Wales, about 190m by 160m with triple ditches. Identified by LiDAR in 2012, excavated 2013-2014; occupied c. AD 74-100, the most westerly Roman fort known in Wales.
Wistoria: Wand and Sword
Wistoria: Wand and Sword (杖と剣のウィストリア) is a Kodansha manga by Fujino Ōmori and Toshi Aoi, serialized since December 2020 about magic-less swordsman Will Serfort; adapted into an anime by Actas and Bandai Namco Pictures since 2024, with Season 3 announced in 2026.
Wistron Corporation
Wistron Corporation (緯創資通) is a Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company formed from Acer in 2001 and Taiwan's largest ODM by revenue in 2025, driven by AI servers.
Wit
Wit, styled W;t on the playbill, is a one-act play by Margaret Edson about a poetry professor with ovarian cancer that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Witan
Witan (witena gemot, "meeting of the wise men"): the Anglo-Saxon royal council of England, 8th to 11th centuries, summoned at the king's pleasure to advise, consent to laws, and elect kings; not a proto-parliament.
Witanhurst
Witanhurst, also known as Witanhurst House, is a Grade II listed mansion in Highgate, London, built 1913 to 1920 and second only to Buckingham Palace in size.
Witch (In This Moment album)
Witch is the ninth studio album by American metal band In This Moment, released August 28, 2026 on Better Noise Music, their first for the label and follow-up to Godmode. 11 tracks, 49 minutes, guests Dayseeker, Kim Dracula, Kat Von D; covers Pink Floyd and Nine Inch Nails.
Witch and Hound
Witch and Hound (魔女と猟犬, Majo to Ryōken) is a Shogakukan Gagaga Bunko dark fantasy light novel by Rainy Kamitsuki with LAM illustrations, about assassin Rollo, the Black Dog, gathering seven witches against magic-monopolizing Amelia; adapted into a 4-volume Minori Tsukahara manga and a 2026 TriF Studio TV anime.
Witch and Mercenary
Witch and Mercenary (魔女と傭兵, Majō to Yōhei) is a Japanese dark fantasy light novel by Chohokiteki Kaeru, begun on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2021, printed by GCN Bunko from 2023, with a Magazine Pocket manga and a TV anime airing from April 2027 on Nippon TV.