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Wendy Raquel Robinson

Wendy Raquel Robinson (born 1967) is an American actress known as Regina "Piggy" Grier on The Steve Harvey Show and Tasha Mack on The Game, and co-founder of Amazing Grace Conservatory in Los Angeles.

Wendy Red Star

Wendy Red Star (born 1981, Billings, Montana) is an Apsáalooke (Crow) multimedia artist whose photography and archival works challenge colonial narratives; she won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2024.

Wendy Richard

Wendy Richard (Wendy Emerton, 1943-2009), English actress, played Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served? and Pauline Fowler in EastEnders from 1985 to 2006; MBE 2000.

Wendy Rose

Wendy Rose, born Bronwen Elizabeth Edwards in 1948, is an American poet and anthropologist of Hopi, Miwok, and European descent whose collection Lost Copper was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Wendy Schaal

Wendy Schaal (born 1954, Chicago) is an American actress known for Joe Dante films Innerspace, The 'Burbs, and Small Soldiers, and as the voice of Francine Smith on American Dad! since 2005; daughter of actor Richard Schaal.

Wendy Shay

Wendy Shay, born Wendy Asiamah Addo, is a Ghanaian afro-pop and afrobeats singer-songwriter signed to RuffTown Records in 2018 and known for her debut single "Uber Driver".

Wendy Thomas

Wendy Thomas (Melinda Lou "Wendy" Thomas Morse, born 1961) is the daughter of Wendy's founder Dave Thomas, the chain's namesake and logo model, later a Wendy's franchisee and 2010-2011 commercial spokesperson.

Wendy Williams

Wendy Williams, born 1964 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, is an American radio and TV broadcaster, 'shock jock diva' of The Wendy Williams Experience, host of The Wendy Williams Show (2009-2022), Radio Hall of Fame inductee.

Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior

Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior is a 2006 Disney Channel film directed by John Laing, starring Brenda Song and Shin Koyamada as a teen destined to defeat an evil spirit.

Wendy's

Wendy's (The Wendy's Company, Nasdaq: WEN) is an American fast-food hamburger chain founded by Dave Thomas in Columbus, Ohio, on November 15, 1969, known for square fresh-beef patties, the Frosty, and its Pick-Up Window drive-through; 7,397 restaurants as of December 2025.

Wenge Musica BCBG

Wenge Musica BCBG is a Congolese soukous and ndombolo group from Kinshasa, founded in December 1997 by singer JB Mpiana after the break-up of the original Wenge Musica.

Wensleydale cheese

Wensleydale cheese: British crumbly cow's-milk cheese from Wensleydale, Yorkshire Dales; protected version Yorkshire Wensleydale holds UK/EU PGI status; monastic origins around 1150; Hawes creamery, Saputo then Lactalis ownership.

Wentworth (TV series)

Wentworth, also known as Wentworth Prison, is an Australian television drama series first broadcast in 2013 on Foxtel's Showcase, reimagining the 1979–1986 prison drama Prisoner in a modern women's prison.

Wentworth Miller

Wentworth Miller (born 1972, Chipping Norton, England) is an American actor and screenwriter, the Michael Scofield of Prison Break, Golden Globe-nominated, writer of Stoker under alias Ted Foulke, who came out as gay in 2013 and disclosed autism in 2021.

Wentworth season 2

Wentworth season 2 (2014): 12-episode second season of the Australian prison drama on SoHo, 20 May to 5 August 2014, introducing governor Joan Ferguson (Pamela Rabe) as Bea Smith's antagonist; Logie-winning, 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Wentworth: Halfway Home

Wentworth: Halfway Home (also styled Halfway House, working title The Next Chapter) is a 2026 BINGE/Foxtel Australian crime drama spin-off of Wentworth following paroled Boomer Jenkins at Sal's Halfway House, filmed in Melbourne with Rachel Griffiths joining returning stars.

Wenwan walnuts (文玩核桃)

Wenwan walnuts (文玩核桃), also called play walnuts or hand-rolling walnuts, are Chinese collectible walnuts kept for their shells, handled as matched pairs rotated in one hand, and slowly darkened into a patina (baojiang) by years of handling; main production centers on Laishui, Hebei.

Wenyan xiaoshuo

Wenyan xiaoshuo (文言小说, classical-language fiction) is fiction written in classical Chinese, running from Six Dynasties anomaly tales through Tang chuanqi to Pu Songling's Qing masterpieces.

Werckmeister Harmonies

Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák) is Béla Tarr's 2000 black-and-white Hungarian film, adapted from Krasznahorkai's The Melancholy of Resistance, about a circus whale and the unseen Prince inciting a small town; 145 minutes, 39 shots. Not the Wrekmeister Harmonies music project.

Weren't for the Wind

"Weren't for the Wind" is a 2024 country song by Ella Langley from Still Hungover, written in Wyoming with Johnny Clawson and Joybeth Taylor; it hit No. 18 on the Hot 100 and was her first solo country radio No. 1.

Werenoi

Werenoi (Jérémy Bana Owona, 1994-2025), French rapper from Montreuil; France's No. 1 album seller in 2023 and 2024 (Carré, Pyramide); died in Paris at 31, five weeks after releasing Diamant Noir.

Werewere Liking

Werewere Liking is a Cameroonian-born novelist, playwright, and performer based in Côte d'Ivoire since 1978, known for creating ritual theater and founding the Ki-Yi community in Abidjan in 1985.

Werewolf by Night

Werewolf by Night (Jack Russell, Jacob Russoff) is a Marvel Comics werewolf hero debuting in Marvel Spotlight #2 (February 1972), with a 43-issue 1972-1977 series that introduced Moon Knight, and a 2022 black-and-white Disney+ MCU special directed by Michael Giacchino.

Werewolf by Night (TV special)

Werewolf by Night is Marvel Studios' first Special Presentation, a 54-minute black-and-white horror special directed and scored by Michael Giacchino, released on Disney+ October 7, 2022, starring Gael García Bernal as Jack Russell with Elsa Bloodstone and Man-Thing.

Werewolves (film)

Werewolves is a 2024 American action horror film directed by Steven C. Miller. It stars Frank Grillo as a marine fighting werewolves triggered by a supermoon.

Werewolves of London

Werewolves of London: 1978 rock song by Warren Zevon, LeRoy Marinell, and Waddy Wachtel from Excitable Boy, written in 15 minutes after a Phil Everly suggestion, featuring Fleetwood Mac's rhythm section, peaking at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Werewolves Within (film)

Werewolves Within (2021) is a horror-comedy whodunit directed by Josh Ruben, written by Mishna Wolff, and loosely based on Ubisoft's 2016 VR social-deduction game. Sam Richardson and Milana Vayntrub star in the snowbound town of Beaverfield; IFC Films released it June 25, 2021.

Werkkreis Literatur der Arbeitswelt

Werkkreis Literatur der Arbeitswelt, also Werkkreis 70, is a German association of writers and working people, founded in Cologne in 1970 as a secession from the Dortmund Gruppe 61.

Werner Aspenström

Werner Aspenström (1918–1997) was a Swedish poet, essayist, and dramatist of the forties generation, a Swedish Academy member from 1981 to 1989, and one of Sweden's most widely read poets.

Werner Bergengruen

Werner Bergengruen (1892–1964) was a Baltic German novelist and poet best known for the anti-Nazi historical novel Der Großtyrann und das Gericht (1935); he was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.