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Wace
Wace, born on Jersey around 1100 and a canon of Bayeux, was a Norman poet whose Roman de Brut (1155) gives the first French account of King Arthur.
WACK
WACK is a Japanese idol management and production company founded by Junnosuke Watanabe in 2014, known for the alternative idol scene groups BiSH and GANG PARADE.
Wack 100
Wack 100 (Cash Jones) is a Pacoima, California music manager and label owner behind 100 Entertainment, known for managing The Game and Blueface, releasing "Eazy" as a Spotify exclusive, and his trucking-to-mogul career.
Wacken Open Air
Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is a heavy metal festival held each August in the village of Wacken in northern Germany, founded in 1990 and among the world's largest.
Wacky Races (1968 TV series)
Wacky Races (1968) is a Hanna-Barbera/Heatter-Quigley CBS animated series, 17 episodes, in which 11 cars including Dick Dastardly and Muttley's Mean Machine race across America; Dastardly never wins, and two spin-offs followed in 1969.
Wacław Potocki
Wacław Potocki (1621–1696) was a Polish Baroque poet, satirist, and moralist who lived near Biecz in Lesser Poland and wrote the epic The Chocim War Transaction.
Waco (miniseries)
Waco (2018) is a six-part Paramount Network miniseries created by John Erick and Drew Dowdle, based on Gary Noesner's and David Thibodeau's books, starring Taylor Kitsch as David Koresh and Michael Shannon as the FBI negotiator during the 1993 siege.
Waco: American Apocalypse
Waco: American Apocalypse is a 2023 three-part Netflix documentary directed by Tiller Russell about the 1993 Waco siege, using FBI negotiation tapes, unreleased news footage, and interviews with survivors, agents, and journalists.
Wada Chirebandi
Wada Chirebandi (वाडा चिरेबंदी) is a Marathi play by Mahesh Elkunchwar, first staged in 1985, opening his trilogy about a feudal family in a crumbling wada mansion in Vidarbha.
Wadali Brothers
Wadali Brothers: Puranchand and Pyarelal Wadali, a Punjabi Sufi singing duo from Guru Ki Wadali, Amritsar, trained in the Patiala gharana, known for qawwali, kafi and gurbani, Bollywood songs like Rangrez, and the Padma Shri.
Waddy Wachtel
Waddy Wachtel (born Robert Wachtel, 1947, New York) is an American session guitarist, songwriter, and producer of the L.A. rock scene, co-writer of 'Werewolves of London', guitarist for Stevie Nicks and Keith Richards' X-Pensive Winos, and founder of The Immediate Family.
Wade Cup
The Wade Cup is a cast brass bowl inlaid with silver, made in Iran in the early 1200s and now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, famed for human- and animal-shaped Arabic script.
Wade Forster
Wade Forster is an Australian country singer-songwriter and professional rodeo cowboy from Winton, outback Queensland. Known as the Aussie Cowboy, 44th Toyota Star Maker winner (2024), albums The Beginning, Gooseneck Party, The Aftermath, not the designer Wade Forst.
Wade in the Water
Wade in the Water is a traditional African American spiritual with no known author, first published in the 1901 Fisk Jubilee Singers songbook. Its refrain draws on John 5:4; its Underground Railroad code-song reputation lacks historical evidence.
Wade Morissette
Wade Imre Morissette, also Wade Morissette (born 1974, Ottawa), is a Canadian kirtan singer, yoga teacher, and author, twin brother of Alanis Morissette; albums include Sargam Scales of Music, Strong as Diamonds, and Maha Moha.
Wade Robson
Wade Robson, Australian-born dancer and choreographer for Britney Spears, 'N Sync, and Usher, two-time Emmy winner, host of MTV's The Wade Robson Project, and a Michael Jackson abuse accuser featured in Leaving Neverland.
Wade Wilson (film character)
Wade Wilson is the film version of Marvel's Deadpool in the X-Men film series, played by Ryan Reynolds: a wisecracking mercenary mutated into the mute Weapon XI in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), then rebooted in Deadpool (2016) and joined to the MCU in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).
Wadjda (وجدة)
Wadjda (وجدة), 2012 comedy-drama by Haifaa Al Mansour; first feature shot entirely in Saudi Arabia and first by a Saudi woman director; a Riyadh girl enters a Quran recitation contest to buy a green bicycle; Venice premiere, BAFTA-nominated.
Wael Kfoury
Wael Kfoury (وائل كفوري), born Michel Émile Kfoury in 1974, is a Lebanese singer and songwriter known across the Arab world as "The King of Romance" for his ballad style.
Wafer
Wafer: a thin crisp baked good from batter between hot plates, also a US thin cookie, the Eucharist host, and a semiconductor slice; 2.5 mm thick, 1–2% moisture.
Waffle
Waffle: a batter cake baked in a hinged waffle iron, giving a crisp gridlike surface; also called gaufre. Known for higher sugar and fat than pancake batter, Belgian Brussels and Liege varieties, and frozen Eggos.
Waffle House
Waffle House: 24-hour Southern diner chain founded 1955 in Avondale Estates, Georgia by Joe Rogers Sr. and Tom Forkner; over 2,000 restaurants in 25 states, privately held, known for the FEMA Waffle House Index.
Waffles + Mochi
Waffles + Mochi is a Netflix children's series from Higher Ground Productions, premiered March 16, 2021, in which puppets Waffles and Mochi travel the world learning about food with Michelle Obama; a 2022 spin-off, Waffles + Mochi's Restaurant, followed.
Wag the Dog
Wag the Dog is a 1997 Barry Levinson black comedy starring Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman, adapted from Larry Beinhart's American Hero, in which spin doctors fabricate an Albanian war to distract from a presidential sex scandal weeks before the Lewinsky story broke.
Wagakki Band (和楽器バンド)
Wagakki Band (和楽器バンド, Wagakki Bando) is a Tokyo-formed 2013 eight-piece rock band fusing shigin vocals, koto, shakuhachi, shamisen, and wadaiko with rock; known for the 100-million-view Senbonzakura cover, Oricon No. 1 Yasou Emaki, and its 2024 hiatus.
Wagamama (わがまま)
Wagamama (わがまま, Japanese for "selfish") is a British pan-Asian restaurant chain founded by Alan Yau in Bloomsbury, London, in 1992, inspired by Tokyo ramen bars; 165 UK and 62 international restaurants as of December 2025, owned by Apollo Global Management.
Wagashi (和菓子)
Wagashi (和菓子) are traditional Japanese confections of plant-based ingredients like adzuki paste, rice flour, and sugar, classified by moisture into fresh, half-fresh, and dry sweets, tied to the tea ceremony, seasons, and annual events.
WAgg
WAgg, short for WACK Egg, was a Japanese trainee idol group under WACK, active 2018 to 2022, whose members aimed to join acts like BiS and BiSH.
Wagle Ki Duniya
Wagle Ki Duniya (वागले की दुनिया), an Indian Hindi sitcom based on R. K. Laxman's Common Man, aired on Doordarshan 1988-1990 and was revived on Sony SAB in 2021 as Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey, ending 9 August 2025 after 1362 episodes.
Wagle Ki Duniya – Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey
Wagle Ki Duniya – Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey (वागले की दुनिया) is a Sony SAB Hindi family sitcom (2021–2025, 1362 episodes) starring Sumeet Raghavan, a sequel to the 1988–90 Doordarshan show based on R.K. Laxman's characters.