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Wayne Maunder
Wayne Maunder (1937–2018), Canadian-born American actor, starred as Lt. Col. Custer in ABC's Custer and as Scott Lancer in CBS's Lancer, later in Chase, The Seven Minutes, and Porky's.
Wayne Newton
Wayne Newton (Carson Wayne Newton, born 1942, Norfolk, Virginia), "Mr. Las Vegas": singer and multi-instrumentalist, Vegas performer since 1959, hits "Danke Schoen" and "Red Roses for a Blue Lady", 165 albums, Flamingo residency extended into 2024.
Wayne Osmond
Wayne Osmond (Melvin Wayne Osmond, 1951-2025), founding member and baritone guitarist of the Osmond Brothers/The Osmonds, brother of Donny and Marie; co-creator of Crazy Horses, died of a stroke aged 73.
Wayne Rogers
Wayne Rogers (1933-2015), American actor and investor, born William Wayne McMillan Rogers III in Birmingham, Alabama. Played Captain "Trapper" John McIntyre on M*A*S*H 1972-1975, later led House Calls and became a prominent investor, panelist on Fox's Cashin' In, and head of Wayne Rogers & Co.
Wayne Sermon
Wayne Sermon (Daniel Wayne Sermon), born 1984 in American Fork, Utah, is the lead guitarist of Imagine Dragons. Berklee-trained in jazz guitar, he is known for textural, song-first playing, vintage guitars, and composer credits on Radioactive, Believer, and Thunder.
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter (1933-2023), Newark-born jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist and composer of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis's second great quintet, and Weather Report; 12 Grammy Awards, Blue Note classics like Speak No Evil, and the opera Iphigenia.
Wayne Sleep
Wayne Sleep OBE (born 1948, Plymouth) is a British ballet dancer, choreographer, and actor; shortest male Royal Ballet School entrant, Senior Principal Dancer, entrechat douze record holder, original Mr Mistoffelees in Cats, Diana's 1985 dance partner.
Wayne Static
Wayne Static (Wayne Richard Wells, 1965–2014), American industrial metal frontman of Static-X, 'evil disco' pioneer, Wisconsin Death Trip, Pighammer solo album, died at 48.
Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud (Morton Wayne Thiebaud, 1920-2021), American painter of thickly impastoed still lifes of cakes, pies, and gumball machines; exhibited with Pop artists in 1962 but rejected the Pop label; taught at UC Davis.
Wayne's World
Wayne's World: SNL sketch (first aired 18 February 1989) and 1992 Penelope Spheeris film starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey as public-access hosts; highest-grossing SNL film at over $183 million.
Wayne's World (film)
Wayne's World (1992), Penelope Spheeris comedy based on the SNL sketch, starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey as Wayne and Garth; $183 million worldwide gross, sequel Wayne's World 2 (1993).
Wayne's World 2
Wayne's World 2 (also styled Wayne's World II) is a 1993 American comedy film and sequel to Wayne's World, starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey.
Ways of Dying
Ways of Dying is a 1995 novel by the South African writer Zakes Mda, his first, following the professional mourner Toloki through the violence of South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy.
Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing: 1972 BBC Two four-part arts documentary by John Berger and Mike Dibb, adapted into the Penguin book of the same name, critiquing Western art history, the male gaze, and advertising; BAFTA-winning, a response to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation.
Wayuu oral literature
Wayuu oral literature is the body of myths, narratives, and songs of the Wayuu people of the Guajira peninsula in northern Colombia and Venezuela, carrying their history and law.
WayV
WayV (威神V, 웨이션브이) is a Chinese boy group under SM Entertainment's Label V, the fourth NCT sub-unit, debuting January 17, 2019 with 'The Vision'; known for Mandarin releases, 'Love Talk', and albums like On My Youth.
Wayward (miniseries)
Wayward is an eight-episode 2025 Netflix limited series created by and starring Mae Martin, a psychological thriller set in 2003 in Tall Pines, Vermont, about a troubled-teen academy run by Toni Collette's Evelyn Wade, filmed in Ontario.
Wayward Pines
Wayward Pines: Fox psychological thriller (2015-2016, two 10-episode seasons) based on Blake Crouch's Pines trilogy, executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Matt Dillon as agent Ethan Burke trapped in a mysterious Idaho town.
Wazir (वज़ीर) (film)
Wazir (वज़ीर), 2016 Hindi action thriller directed by Bejoy Nambiar, produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar; released 8 January 2016, 102 minutes, mixed reviews.
Wazir Agha
Wazir Agha (وزیر آغا), 1922 to 2010, was a Pakistani Urdu poet, critic, and essayist who wrote over 40 books and edited the literary magazine Auraq for decades.
WC (rapper)
WC (Dub-C), William LaShawn Calhoun Jr., born 1970, is a West Coast rapper from Los Angeles of Low Profile, WC and the Maad Circle, and Westside Connection, and a solo artist since The Shadiest One (1998).
WCK
WCK (Windward Caribbean Kulture) is a Dominican band formed in 1988 in Grand Bay, Dominica, credited with creating bouyon, a genre fusing cadence-lypso, jing ping, and lapo kabwit drumming with soca.
WDA (Whole Different Animal)
"WDA (Whole Different Animal)" is a 2026 hip-hop dance single by K-pop girl group aespa featuring G-DRAGON, released May 11, 2026 as a pre-release single of the album LEMONADE, peaking at number 4 on Billboard Taiwan.
WDR Big Band
WDR Big Band: Cologne-based professional jazz big band of German public broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk, descended from a 1946 dance orchestra, Grammy-winning for Some Skunk Funk (2005), chief conductor Bob Mintzer since 2016.
We (Мы) (novel)
We (Мы) is Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1920–1921 dystopian novel about the One State and mathematician D-503; first published in English in 1924, banned in the USSR until 1988, and a forerunner of Huxley and Orwell.
We All Loved Each Other So Much
We All Loved Each Other So Much (Italian: C'eravamo tanto amati) is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama by Ettore Scola following three former Resistance friends through thirty years of postwar Italian history.
We Are (TV series)
We Are (คือเรารักกัน, Khue Rao Rak Kan) is a 2024 GMMTV Thai BL university romantic comedy, adapted from Pharawi's novel, airing 16 episodes on GMM25 from 3 April to 17 July 2024 with eight leads in four couples; it won Entertainment Program of the Year at Mint Awards 2024.
We Are Aliens
We Are Aliens (Wareware wa Uchūjin) is a 2026 Japanese animated drama, Kohei Kadowaki's feature debut, about two boys separated by a childhood betrayal; it premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2026 and won Sitges Best Animated Feature.
We Are All Alone (怪你过分美丽)
We Are All Alone (怪你过分美丽, Guai Ni Guo Fen Mei Li) is a 2020 Chinese iQIYI workplace drama, 36 episodes, starring Qin Lan as agent Mo Xiangwan and Godfrey Gao as Mo Bei in his final role.
We Are All Trying Here
We Are All Trying Here (모두가 자신의 무가치함과 싸우고 있다) is a 2026 JTBC/Netflix Korean drama by writer Park Hae-young and director Cha Young-hoon, starring Koo Kyo-hwan and Go Youn-jung; 12 episodes aired April 18 to May 24, 2026, ending at a series-high 5.3 percent Nielsen rating.