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Wycombe Wanderers F.C.
Wycombe Wanderers F.C., the Chairboys, is an English football club founded in 1887 in High Wycombe, playing at trust-owned Adams Park in EFL League One, promoted to the Championship for the first time in 2020.
Wydad AC
Wydad AC (Wydad Athletic Club) is a Casablanca-based Moroccan professional football club, three-time CAF Champions League winner, nine-time Coupe du Trône holder, 2022 African champion, and Raja's rival in the Casablanca derby.
Wyeomyia
Wyeomyia (bromeliad mosquito), Theobald 1901, is a genus of about 140 sabethine mosquitoes of the tribe Sabethini, mainly Neotropical, whose larvae develop in phytotelmata such as bromeliads and pitcher plants.
Wyeth
Wyeth, formerly American Home Products, was a Madison, New Jersey pharmaceutical company behind Enbrel, Prevnar, and Premarin; Pfizer acquired it in 2009 for about $68 billion.
Wyld (lunar crater)
Wyld is a 103.40 km impact crater on the Moon's far side at 1.42°S, 98.10°E, IAU-approved in 1970 and named for American rocketry scientist James Hart Wyld (1913–1953); the crater Saha lies on its floor.
Wylde Flowers
Wylde Flowers is a cozy farming and life sim with a witchcraft story by Australia's Studio Drydock, starring Tara Wylde in Fairhaven. Released on Apple Arcade in 2022, later Steam, Switch, PS5, Xbox; Apple Design Award winner.
Wylde Pak
Wylde Pak is a Nickelodeon 2D-animated comedy (2025) by Kyle Marshall and Paul Watling about half-siblings Lily Pak and Jack Wylde in a blended Korean-American family running a pet grooming business.
Wylfa nuclear power station
Wylfa nuclear power station was a Magnox plant on Anglesey, Wales, generating electricity from 1971 to 2015 as the last operating Magnox plant in the world.
Wylie Burke
Wylie Burke is an American physician and geneticist known for work on the ethics and policy of genetic information, and former chair of bioethics at the University of Washington.
Wylie Independent School District (Taylor County, Texas)
Wylie ISD (Taylor County, Texas), also called Wylie ISD Abilene, district number 221912, is an ECC-12 public district near Abilene with 8 schools, about 5,500 students, a 2025 TEA score of 89, and active bond construction.
Wylie Vale
Wylie W. Vale, Jr. (1941–2012) was an American neuroendocrinologist at the Salk Institute who determined the structures of corticotropin-releasing factor and growth hormone-releasing hormone, and co-founded Neurocrine Biosciences.
Wyman Duggan
Wyman Duggan is an American Republican politician representing a Jacksonville-area district in the Florida House who assumed the Speaker's duties in August 2026 after Daniel Perez resigned.
Wymondley Roman Villa
Wymondley Roman Villa, a scheduled Romano-British villa site by Gipsy Lane/Purwell in Wymondley parish, North Hertfordshire, partially excavated in 1882; a second villa site at Little Wymondley was excavated in 1991 and 2001.
Wymps Gap Surface Coal Mine
The Wymps Gap Surface Coal Mine is an active surface bituminous coal mine in Georges Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, operated by Charles L Swenglish & Sons Coal Company Inc.
Wymysłowo
Wymysłowo, village in Krobia commune, Gostyń county, Greater Poland; site of a 355-grave Przeworsk culture cemetery (Jasnosz 1952) with unique inhumation grave 70, plus a grodzisko and 19th-century evangelical cemetery.
Wymysorys
Wymysorys (Wymysiöeryś), also Vilamovian, is a West Germanic micro-language spoken only in Wilamowice, southern Poland, descended from thirteenth-century settlers' German and reshaped by Polish contact. Fewer than twenty fully proficient speakers remain; banned in 1945, it is being revitalized by Tymoteusz Król.
Wyna Liu
Wyna Liu is an American puzzle editor at The New York Times and editor of the daily game Connections since its June 2023 beta launch; also an AVCX assistant editor, crossword constructor, and jewelry artist based in New York City.
Wyndham Clark
Wyndham Clark, American PGA Tour golfer from Denver, Colorado; two-time U.S. Open champion (2023 Los Angeles Country Club, 2026 Shinnecock Hills wire-to-wire) with six tour wins including the 2023 Wells Fargo Championship and 2026 BMW Championship.
Wyndham H. Wilson
Wyndham H. Wilson is an American oncologist and chief of the Lymphoma Therapeutics Section at the National Cancer Institute, known for the DA-EPOCH-R regimen for Burkitt lymphoma.
Wyndham Halswelle
Wyndham Halswelle (1882-1915), British Army officer and sprinter, won the 1908 Olympic 400m in the only walkover final in Olympic history after John Carpenter's disqualification; also 1906 silver and bronze.
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, also known as Wyndham Hotel Group, is an American hotel franchising company with over 8,300 hotels and 25 brands in about 100 countries.
Wynn Al Marjan Island (مرجان)
Wynn Al Marjan Island (مرجان) is a US$5.1 billion integrated resort under construction on Al Marjan Island, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, by Wynn Resorts and Marjan. It holds the UAE's only land-based casino licence, topped out at 352 meters, and opens in 2027.
Wynn Las Vegas
Wynn Las Vegas, known as The Wynn, is a luxury resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, opened by Steve Wynn in 2005 on the former Desert Inn site.
Wynn Macau
Wynn Macau (永利澳門), luxury integrated casino resort on the Macau peninsula, opened 6 September 2006 as Macau's first Las Vegas-style casino resort; Encore tower added 2010; only resort worldwide with eight Forbes Five-Star awards; operated by HKEX-listed Wynn Macau, Limited.
Wynn Palace Casino
Wynn Palace, a luxury integrated casino resort in Cotai, Macau, opened 22 August 2016 as Wynn Resorts' second Macau property; 1,706 rooms, ~468,000 sq ft casino, Performance Lake, SkyCab, Forbes Five-Star.
Wynn Resorts
Wynn Resorts, Limited (Nasdaq: WYNN) is a Las Vegas-based luxury integrated resort and casino operator running Wynn Las Vegas, Encore, Wynn Macau, Wynn Palace, and Encore Boston Harbor, with a 40% stake in the Wynn Al Marjan Island UAE resort opening 2027.
Wynnchurch Capital
Wynnchurch Capital is a middle-market private equity firm founded in 1999 and headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois, making control investments in industrial and manufacturing companies in the United States and Canada.
Wynne Evans
Wynne Evans, Welsh tenor born 1972 in Carmarthen, is the Gio Compario of the GoCompare adverts, a BBC Radio Wales presenter, WNO principal, Celebrity MasterChef winner, and BEM recipient who left the BBC in 2025.
Wynne Katherine Schiffer
Wynne Katherine Schiffer is an American addiction neurobiologist and molecular-imaging scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who used PET to study dopamine signaling and received a 2005 Presidential Early Career Award.
Wynniatt Bay
Wynniatt Bay, a bay on northwestern Victoria Island, Northwest Territories, Canada (72°45′N 111°00′W, NTS 078B13). Named for Robert Wynniatt, who reached it in 1851 during McClure's Investigator expedition; official since 1947.