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Warranty data analysis

Warranty data analysis is the modeling of warranty claims data to estimate field reliability, forecast future claims and costs, and detect product quality problems as they emerge.

Warrap

Warrap (Warab) is one of South Sudan's ten states, in the northwest, capital Kuajok, six counties including Twic, Tonj, and Gogrial. Predominantly Dinka, agropastoral, largest state population per NBS 2023; divided 2015-2020, restored 2020.

Warrego Valles

Warrego Valles: mature branching valley network on Mars at 42S 93W in Thaumasia, IAU-named 1979 for an Australian river; key evidence in rainfall versus hydrothermal origin debates.

Warren Abstract Machine

The Warren Abstract Machine (WAM) is an abstract instruction set for executing compiled Prolog, defined by David H. D. Warren at SRI International in 1983.

Warren Alexander

Warren S. Alexander is an Australian medical researcher at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne who studies how the body controls blood cell production.

Warren Ambrose

Warren Ambrose (1914–1995) was an American mathematician and MIT professor who worked in differential geometry and proved the 1953 Ambrose–Singer holonomy theorem with Isadore Singer.

Warren Anderson (American businessman)

Warren Martin Anderson (1921–2014) was an American executive who led Union Carbide as chairman and CEO, becoming a fugitive after the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster.

Warren B. Hamilton

Warren B. Hamilton (1925–2018) was an American geologist who spent 1952–1995 at the U.S. Geological Survey, then Colorado School of Mines, arguing that subduction drives plate tectonics.

Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty (born 1937), American actor-producer-director-screenwriter, brother of Shirley MacLaine. Star of Splendor in the Grass; producer-star of Bonnie and Clyde; Oscar-winning director of Reds; later Bulworth and Rules Don't Apply.

Warren Brinson

Warren Marquis Brinson is an American football defensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers, drafted in the sixth round of the 2025 NFL Draft after playing college football at Georgia.

Warren Brown (actor)

Warren Martin Brown (born 1978, Warrington) is an English actor and former two-time World Thai Boxing champion, known for DS Justin Ripley in Luther, Mac in Strike Back, Ten Pound Poms, and A Taste for Murder.

Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett, known as the Oracle of Omaha, is an American investor who built Berkshire Hathaway into a trillion-dollar company, compounding 19.9% a year since 1965.

Warren C. W. Chan

Warren C. W. Chan, also published as Warren Chan, is a nanomedicine researcher who demonstrated quantum dots for biomedical imaging and became dean of engineering at NTU Singapore in 2024.

Warren Carl Oliver

Warren Carl Oliver was an American materials scientist who co-created the Oliver–Pharr method, the standard analysis for nanoscale hardness and elastic modulus, and co-founded Nano Instruments.

Warren Christie

Warren Christie (Hans Warren Christie), British-Canadian actor born 1975 in Belfast, raised in Ontario; known for Alphas, Motive, The Village, Batwoman, and John Edwards in Netflix's Little House on the Prairie (2026).

Warren Christopher

Warren Minor Christopher (1925–2011), American lawyer-diplomat, 63rd U.S. Secretary of State (1993–1997) under Clinton; earlier Deputy Secretary of State under Carter and Iran hostage negotiator; brokered Dayton Accords.

Warren Clarke

Warren Clarke (Alan James Clarke, 1947-2014), English character actor from Oldham; Dim in A Clockwork Orange, Andy Dalziel in Dalziel and Pascoe (1996-2007), Churchill, Bleak House, National Theatre work.

Warren Cole

Warren Joseph Cole (1940-2019), New Zealand rower and Olympian #221; won gold in the men's coxed four at Mexico City 1968, sixth at Munich 1972, 1970 world champion in the eight.

Warren Commission

Warren Commission, formally the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy: Johnson's 1963 panel chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren that investigated the JFK assassination and concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

Warren County power station

The Warren County power station is a 1,329 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle plant owned by Dominion in Warren County near Front Royal, Virginia, opened in 2014.

Warren Court

The Warren Court (1953-1969), led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, transformed US constitutional law through Brown v. Board of Education, Baker v. Carr, Gideon, Miranda, and Engel v. Vitale.

Warren Cuccurullo

Warren Bruce Cuccurullo (born 1956, Brooklyn) is an American rock guitarist who played with Frank Zappa, co-founded Missing Persons, and was Duran Duran's guitarist and co-writer of "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone" from 1986 to 2001; later solo artist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2022 inductee.

Warren Daniel

Warren Daniel is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the North Carolina State Senate from the 46th district, first elected in 2010.

Warren Davidson

Warren Davidson, born 1970, is a Republican U.S. representative for Ohio's 8th district since 2016, after serving as an Army officer and fifteen years running manufacturing companies.

Warren Davis (footballer)

Warren Davis (born 2005, Tallaght) is an Irish footballer, a winger/forward for Drogheda United in the League of Ireland Premier Division; FAI Cup winner 2024, Ireland U21 international, contract to November 2027.

Warren DeMartini

Warren DeMartini (born 1963), American lead guitarist of glam metal band Ratt; joined in 1982 replacing Jake E. Lee, co-wrote "Round and Round" on triple-platinum Out of the Cellar, later Dio, Whitesnake, Charvel signature guitars.

Warren E. Burger

Warren E. Burger (1907–1995), 15th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1969–1986), Minnesota-born Nixon appointee between Earl Warren and Rehnquist; wrote United States v. Nixon and reformed federal court administration.

Warren E. C. Wacker

Warren E. C. Wacker (1924–2012) was an American physician and biochemist at Harvard, known for his widely cited 1968 review of magnesium metabolism and for directing Harvard University Health Services.

Warren E. Grupe

Warren E. Grupe (1933–2023) was an American pediatric nephrologist at Harvard Medical School whose 1976 chlorambucil trial established alkylating agents as standard therapy for frequently relapsing nephrotic syndrome in children.

Warren E. Pickett

Warren E. Pickett is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist known for density-functional calculations of superconductors, a pioneer of electronic-structure methods and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis.