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Women's World Chess Championship
Women's World Chess Championship: FIDE title for the world's best female player, founded 1927. First champion Vera Menchik (1927-44, eight titles); 17 champions since; current champion Ju Wenjun of China since 2018, decided by Candidates tournament plus 12-game match.
Women's World Games
Women's World Games: four international women's athletics competitions (Paris 1922, Gothenburg 1926, Prague 1930, London 1934) organized by Alice Milliat's FSFI, initially called Women's Olympic Games, which forced women's track and field into the Olympics.
Women's World Golf Rankings
Rolex Rankings, the official Women's World Golf Rankings, launched February 21, 2006 with Annika Sörenstam No. 1; sanctioned by 13 tours plus the R&A and USGA, using a 104-week rolling, strength-of-field points system.
Women's World Team Chess Championship
Women's World Team Chess Championship, FIDE women's national team world title, first held 2007 in Russia, won by China; 2025 edition in Linares, Spain won by Team FIDE over Azerbaijan 3-1.
WOMEX
WOMEX, short for Worldwide Music Expo, is an annual trade fair, conference, and showcase festival for the world music industry, held each October in a different European city since 1994.
Won Bin (원빈)
Won Bin (원빈), real name Kim Do-jin (김도진), born 1977, is a South Korean actor famous for Autumn in My Heart, Taegukgi, Mother, and The Man from Nowhere (2010), his last acting role; he has since appeared only in commercials.
Won Buddhism
Won Buddhism (원불교, Wŏnbulgyo) is a Korean new religious movement founded in 1916 by Pak Chungbin, known as Sot'aesan, which venerates a circle rather than a Buddha image.
Won Gwang
Won Gwang (원광) was a Silla monk of the Three Kingdoms period who studied Buddhism in China, returned in 600, and gave the hwarang the Sesok Ogye code.
Won Gyun
Won Gyun (원균, 1540 to 1597) was a Joseon naval commander who fought at Okpo in 1592 and died when his fleet was destroyed at Chilcheollyang in 1597.
Won Ho Jo
Won Ho Jo (조원호) is a South Korean polymer scientist and professor of materials science at Seoul National University known for isoindigo-based conjugated polymers for organic solar cells.
Won Hye Gyeong
Won Hye Gyeong (원혜경, 元蕙敬, Won Hye-Kyung), born 1979 in Seoul, South Korean short track speed skater; two Olympic relay golds (1994, 1998), 1998 1,000 m bronze, 1996 world 3,000 m champion.
Won Jeong Sik
Won Jeong Sik (원정식, born 1990) is a South Korean Olympic weightlifter and 2017 world champion in the 69 kg class who set a 195 kg clean & jerk world record in the 73 kg class at Ashgabat 2018.
Won Jong Kim
Won Jong Kim (김원종) is a South Korean polymer chemist and professor at POSTECH in Pohang whose BioMedical Polymer Lab builds polymer nanoparticles for drug and gene delivery.
Won Jong Yoo
Won Jong Yoo (유원종) is a South Korean materials scientist at Sungkyunkwan University known for 1D edge contacts that free MoS2 transistors from Fermi-level pinning.
Won U Yeong
Won U-Yeong (원우영, born 1982, Seoul) is a retired South Korean sabre fencer, 2012 London Olympic team gold medalist, 2010 world individual sabre champion, and the first Asian to win that world title.
Won-Do Heo
Won-Do Heo (허원도) is a South Korean cell signaling researcher and professor of biological sciences at KAIST who develops optogenetics tools that control proteins with light.
Won-Suk Chung
Won-Suk Chung (정원석) is a South Korean neuroscientist, associate professor at KAIST and IBS associate director, known for his 2013 Nature paper showing astrocytes eliminate synapses.
Won‐Jae Lee
Won-Jae Lee is a South Korean immunologist who studies how the fruit fly gut distinguishes beneficial microbes from harmful ones, and has been a professor at Seoul National University since 2011.
Won‐Jin Kwak
Won-Jin Kwak (곽원진) is a South Korean battery researcher who leads a lab at UNIST's School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, known for lithium bromide redox mediators in lithium–oxygen batteries.
Won't Get Fooled Again
Won't Get Fooled Again is a 1971 song by The Who, written by Pete Townshend for the Lifehouse project and released on Who's Next; known for its ARP 2500 synthesizer, Daltrey's scream, "meet the new boss" lyric, and UK #9 single status.
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (film)
Won't You Be My Neighbor? is a 2018 American documentary directed by Morgan Neville about Fred Rogers, creator and host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, premiering at Sundance in January 2018.
Wonastow
Wonastow Roman fort (Talocher Farm/Court Farm), Mitchel Troy, Monmouthshire, Wales: a Flavian auxiliary fort near Monmouth found through cropmarks, 1966 field walking, and 2004-2006 excavations, on the Monmouth-Usk Roman road.
Woncheuk
Woncheuk (원측, 圓測; 613–696) was a Silla-born Buddhist monk-scholar who spent his career in Tang China as a leading exponent of Yogacara Buddhism and abbot of Ximing Monastery in Chang'an.
WondaGurl
WondaGurl (Ebony Naomi Oshunrinde), Canadian Grammy-nominated producer from Brampton; Jay-Z "Crown," Rihanna "BBHMM," Travis Scott "Antidote"; first Black woman Juno Producer of the Year; Wonderchild label; METAL TAIL album.
Wonder (film)
Wonder is a 2017 American drama film directed by Stephen Chbosky, adapted from R.J. Palacio's novel, starring Jacob Tremblay as Auggie Pullman, a boy with facial differences starting school.
Wonder (Palacio novel)
Wonder (Palacio novel), R. J. Palacio's 2012 Knopf middle-grade debut about Auggie Pullman, a boy with a facial difference entering fifth grade; eight-part multi-narrator structure, 16 million copies sold, Choose Kind movement, 2017 film adaptation.
Wonder Boys (film)
Wonder Boys is a 2000 American comedy-drama directed by Curtis Hanson, adapted by Steve Kloves from Michael Chabon's 1995 novel, starring Michael Douglas as stalled novelist Grady Tripp; it won Bob Dylan an Oscar for "Things Have Changed" and grossed $19.4 million in the US.
Wonder Bread
Wonder Bread: American packaged white bread brand founded 1921 in Indianapolis by Taggart Baking, named by Elmer Cline after balloon races; early presliced bread, FTC 1971 case, owned by Flowers Foods since 2012.
Wonder Egg Priority (ワンダーエッグ・プライオリティ)
Wonder Egg Priority (ワンダーエッグ・プライオリティ) is a 2021 original TV anime by CloverWorks, directed by Shin Wakabayashi and written by Shinji Nojima, about Ai Ohto fighting to revive her dead friend; 12 episodes plus a criticized June 2021 special finale.
Wonder Girl
Wonder Girl is a DC Comics superheroine alias held by several characters, chiefly Donna Troy (1965), Cassie Sandsmark (1996), and Yara Flor, each a younger partner or successor to Wonder Woman in comics and television.