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Wander Over Yonder

Wander Over Yonder is a Craig McCracken-created Disney animated comedy (2013–2016, 79 episodes, 2 seasons) about optimistic traveler Wander and steed Sylvia battling Lord Hater; canceled after season 2 despite an Emmy and Annie Award.

Wandercraft

Wandercraft is a French robotics company founded in Paris in 2012, known for self-balancing exoskeletons like Atalante X and the Calvin industrial humanoid used by Renault.

Wanderer (company)

Wanderer was a German machine-building company founded in Chemnitz in 1885 that made bicycles, motorcycles, typewriters, and automobiles, becoming a founding brand of Auto Union in 1932.

Wanderer (Genshin Impact)

Wanderer (流浪者), formerly Scaramouche the Balladeer and Kunikuzushi, is a 5-star Anemo Catalyst character in Genshin Impact released in version 3.3 (December 7, 2022). A puppet created by Raiden Ei and former Sixth Fatui Harbinger, he erased himself from Irminsul and now studies at Sumeru Akademiya as "Hat Guy."

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer), c. 1817/1818 oil on canvas by Caspar David Friedrich, Hamburger Kunsthalle HK-5161, acquired 1970; iconic Rückenfigur above fog, no pre-1939 provenance record.

Wanderers F.C.

Wanderers F.C., also Forest FC, was a London football club founded 1859 by Old Harrovians; winner of the first FA Cup in 1872 and five cups in the 1870s, dissolved around 1887, re-formed 2009; distinct from the Irish rugby club of the same name.

Wanderers Stadium

Wanderers Stadium (DP World Wanderers, 'The Bullring'), Illovo, Johannesburg; South Africa's largest cricket ground, 1956, altitude 1,753 m; home of Lions and Joburg Super Kings; 2003 World Cup final and 438 game.

Wandering

Wandering (Pang huang, also translated Hesitation) is Lu Xun's second short-story collection, gathering eleven stories written from 1924 to 1925 and published in Beijing in 1926.

Wandering in dementia

Wandering in dementia (ICD-11 6D86.6) is a behavioral symptom of Alzheimer's and related dementias in which disoriented movement can lead to going missing; affects 15-60% of people, with weak intervention evidence.

Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream

Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream (游园惊梦) is a 1966 short story by Taiwanese writer Pai Hsien-yung, a landmark of stream-of-consciousness writing collected in Taipei People.

Wandering Jew

The Wandering Jew, also called Ahasuerus or Cartaphilus, is the figure of a Christian legend in which a man who wronged Jesus wanders the earth until the Second Coming.

Wandering spider

Wandering spiders (Ctenidae) are large nocturnal tropical ambush-hunting spiders; the genus Phoneutria, the Brazilian wandering or banana spider, causes about 4,000 bites yearly in Brazil with neurotoxic venom.

Wandering Stars (Orange novel)

Wandering Stars is Tommy Orange's 2024 Knopf novel, both prequel and sequel to There There, following Jude Star from the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre through Fort Marion and Carlisle to Orvil Red Feather in 2018 Oakland; Booker longlisted.

Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina

Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina (魔女の旅々, Majo no Tabitabi) is a Japanese episodic fantasy light novel by Jougi Shiraishi and Azure, self-published on Kindle in 2014, published by GA Novel since 2016, adapted into a 2020 TV anime by C2C and a manga, with a new anime film announced in 2026.

Wanderlei Silva

Wanderlei Silva is a retired Brazilian mixed martial artist from Curitiba, nicknamed "The Axe Murderer", who held the PRIDE middleweight title for nearly five and a half years.

Wanderley de Souza

Wanderley de Souza is a Brazilian parasitologist and cell biologist, a full professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro known for microscopic studies of pathogenic protozoa.

Wanderlust (2012 film)

Wanderlust is a 2012 American comedy film directed by David Wain, starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston as a Manhattan couple who join a rural commune.

Wanderlust (British TV series)

Wanderlust (2018 BBC One/Netflix drama), Nick Payne's first TV series adapted from his 2010 Royal Court play; Toni Collette and Steven Mackintosh play a couple experimenting with non-monogamy after a cycling accident; six episodes, set in Manchester.

Wanderstop

Wanderstop (Ivy Road, Annapurna Interactive, March 11, 2025) is a cozy tea-shop management and narrative game starring fallen fighter Alta, with no fail states, on PC, PS5, Xbox, and Epic at $24.99.

Wando

Wando was the stage name of Vanderley Alves dos Reis, a Brazilian singer and composer of brega-romântico music, best known for the 1988 hit "Fogo e paixão".

Wando Archipelago Biosphere Reserve

Wando Archipelago Biosphere Reserve (완도 생물권보전지역), Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea; UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve designated 15 September 2021, Korea's ninth; 403,899 ha, about 90% marine, 265 islands, 50,000 residents.

Wandoan Coal Project

The Wandoan Coal Project is a proposed open-cut thermal coal mine in Queensland's Surat Basin, developed by Glencore's joint venture and fully approved but on hold.

Wandong Medical (万东医疗)

Wandong Medical (万东医疗) is a Beijing-based medical imaging equipment maker tracing to a 1955 state X-ray factory, listed in Shanghai since 1997 and controlled by Midea Group.

Wandougongzhu (豌豆公主)

Wandougongzhu (豌豆公主, "Pea Princess") was a Japan-focused cross-border e-commerce platform founded in 2015 by Weng Yongbiao, selling Japanese goods to Chinese consumers through its app and helping Japanese brands enter China.

Wandrers Nachtlied

Wandrers Nachtlied ("Wanderer's Nightsong") is the shared title of two short poems by Goethe: an eight-line plea for peace from 1776 and a famous evening poem of 1780.

Wandsworth

Wandsworth is an Inner London borough on the south bank of the Thames, created in 1965 from Battersea and Wandsworth boroughs. Population 327,506 (2021); five town centres; Wandle mill heritage; Battersea Power Station regeneration; London Borough of Culture 2025.

Wandu Mountain City

丸都山故城 (Wandu Mountain City), Goguryeo mountain fortress and twice royal capital near Ji'an, Jilin, China; built as Weina Rock City in AD 3, renamed Wandu in 198, walls 6,951 m, UNESCO Koguryo site since 2004.

Waneek Horn-Miller

Waneek Horn-Miller (born 1975) is a Mohawk water polo player from Kahnawake, Canada; 1999 Pan Am gold medalist, co-captain of Canada's 2000 Olympic team, first Mohawk woman from Canada to compete at the Olympics, and 2019 Sports Hall of Fame inductee.

WANF

WANF (WGCL-TV), branded Atlanta News First, is an independent television station in Atlanta, Georgia, owned by Gray Media. It was Atlanta's CBS affiliate from 1994 to August 2025.

Wanfeng Fuguli

晚风拂故里 (Evening Breeze Brushes the Old Hometown) is a 2025 Chinese modern comeback (逆袭) short drama on Douyin, written by 曾悟空, starring 祥笕, and complete at 66 short episodes.