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Wanavokali
Wanavokali is a Kenyan R&B and soul vocal collective of six artists from Nairobi, formed in 2019 after meeting on the Safaricom Twaweza Live Tour.
Wanborough
Wanborough names two English villages with major Roman archaeology: Wanborough, Surrey, with a scheduled Romano-Celtic temple complex, unique priestly regalia and a looted 10,000-coin hoard, and Wanborough, Wiltshire, identified with the Roman small town Durocornovium.
Wancennes
Wancennes (Wancène), a village in Beauraing, Namur, Belgium, site of the Gallo-Roman villa Wancennes-La Couturelle: eight buildings over 2 hectares, occupied 1st century to about 275 AD, excavated from 1883–84, with Roman and Frankish cemeteries.
Wand
A wand is a small, tapered ritual rod used in magic to direct or invoke, one of the elemental tools of Western ceremonial magic and Wicca.
Wand (band)
Wand: Los Angeles rock band formed in 2013, led by Cory Hanson (not the Japanese band WANDS or Wooden Wand). Psychedelic garage rock on Ganglion Reef, Golem, 1000 Days; shifted to art rock on Plum (2017); Drag City albums through Vertigo (2024).
Wanda (1970 film)
Wanda (1970) is Barbara Loden's only feature as director, an American independent drama she wrote, directed, and starred in; it won the International Critics' Prize at Venice 1970 and ranks joint 48th in the 2022 Sight and Sound critics' poll.
Wanda (Austrian band)
Wanda is a German-language pop and rock band from Vienna, founded in 2012, whose 2015 hit "Bologna" made them the most-awarded band in Amadeus Austrian Music Awards history.
Wanda A. Sigur
Wanda A. Sigur, born Wanda Anne Alexander, is an American aerospace engineer who spent 1979 to 2017 at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, retiring as Vice President of Civil Space.
Wanda Austin
Wanda Austin, born 1954, is an American aerospace systems engineer who served as president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation from 2008 to 2016, its first woman and first African American president.
Wanda Díaz-Merced
Wanda Díaz-Merced is a Puerto Rican astrophysicist from Gurabo who pioneered data sonification, converting astronomical data into sound, after losing her sight as a young adult.
Wanda Ferro
Wanda Ferro is an Italian politician of Fratelli d'Italia who serves as Undersecretary of State for the Interior in Giorgia Meloni's government and coordinates the party in Calabria.
Wanda Group (万达集团)
Wanda Group (万达集团), also known as Dalian Wanda, is a Chinese conglomerate founded in Dalian in 1988 by Wang Jianlin, known for its Wanda Plazas and cinemas.
Wanda Hendrix
Wanda Hendrix (Dixie Wanda Hendrix, 1928–1981), American actress of Confidential Agent and Ride the Pink Horse, first wife of Audie Murphy, later married James L. Stack Jr. and Steve La Monte.
Wanda Holloway
Wanda Webb Holloway, the "Texas Cheerleader Mom" or "Pom-Pom Mom," tried in 1991 to hire a hit man via Terry Harper to kill Verna Heath; convicted, overturned on juror ineligibility, 1996 no-contest plea.
Wanda Jackson
Wanda Jackson (born 1937, Maud, Oklahoma), the Queen of Rockabilly, is an American country, rockabilly, and gospel singer and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (2009), known for "Let's Have a Party" and "Fujiyama Mama."
Wanda K. Nicholson
Wanda K. Nicholson is an American physician-epidemiologist, professor at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, and Chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force.
Wanda Maximoff (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, is an Elizabeth Olsen character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, introduced in 2014, central to WandaVision (2021), and the antagonist presumed dead in Multiverse of Madness (2022).
Wanda Nara
Wanda Nara (Wanda Solange Nara), born 1986, is an Argentine model, television presenter, businesswoman, and football agent known as the wife and longtime agent of Mauro Icardi.
Wanda Nowak
Wanda Nowak (Wanda Emilie Maria Nowak, 1913-1977), Austrian track and field athlete; tied ninth in high jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, 1938 European eighth-place finisher, multi-event Austrian champion.
Wanda Rutkiewicz
Wanda Rutkiewicz (Wanda Błaszkiewicz), Polish mountaineer, 1943–1992: first European woman and Pole on Everest (1978), first woman on K2 (1986), climbed eight 8000ers, died on Kangchenjunga.
Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes (born 1964, Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer, Emmy winner from The Chris Rock Show, star of Wanda at Large and Curb Your Enthusiasm, former NSA employee, and Netflix special headliner.
Wanda Ventham
Wanda Ventham (born 5 August 1935, Brighton) is an English actress known as Colonel Virginia Lake in UFO, Pamela Parry in Only Fools and Horses, and the mother of Benedict Cumberbatch, with whom she appeared in Sherlock.
Wanda Wasilewska
Wanda Wasilewska (1905–1964) was a Polish and Soviet communist activist and writer who chaired the Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR during World War II.
WandaVision
WandaVision is Marvel Studios' 2021 nine-episode Disney+ limited series, also called La bruja escarlata y Visión in Spain, in which Wanda Maximoff and Vision live inside shifting sitcom eras; created by Jac Schaeffer, directed by Matt Shakman, it won three Emmys from 23 nominations.
Wandee Goodday (วันดีวิทยา)
Wandee Goodday (วันดีวิทยา) is a 2024 Thai BL romantic comedy by GMMTV, adapted from Nottakorn's novel, directed by Tanwarin Sukkhapisit, starring Great Sapol and Inn Sarin as a boxer and doctor in a fake relationship, 12 episodes on GMM25.
Wandee Kameaim
Wandee Kameaim (วันดี คำเอี่ยม), Thai weightlifter born 1978; bronze in women's 58 kg at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 (upgraded after doping DQ), first Thai with back-to-back Olympic medals.
Wandel
Wandel, South Lanarkshire, Scotland: site of a Roman trapezoidal fortlet (33.2 x 31.4 m, excavated 1966) and a Flavian-period temporary marching camp of about 14.7 ha, both beside a Roman road; scheduled monument SM2835.
Wander (film)
Wander is a 2020 Canadian-American conspiracy thriller directed by April Mullen, written by Tim Doiron, starring Aaron Eckhart, Tommy Lee Jones, Katheryn Winnick, and Heather Graham, released December 4, 2020 by Saban Films.
Wander Franco
Wander Samuel Franco, Dominican shortstop for the Tampa Bay Rays (2021-2023), first MLB player born in the 2000s, 2023 All-Star; career ended by a child sexual abuse conviction in the Dominican Republic.
Wander Johannes de Haas
Wander Johannes de Haas (1878–1960) was a Dutch experimental physicist whose name is attached to the Einstein–de Haas, de Haas–van Alphen, and Shubnikov–de Haas magnetic effects.