Wake (disambiguation)

Wake is the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving solid body.

Wake may also refer to:

Culture

• Wakes week, an English holiday tradition
• Wake (ceremony), a ritual which takes place during some funeral ceremonies

Entertainment

Film and television

• Wake (film), a 2009 independent film

Literature

• The Wake, a nickname for Finnegans Wake, the James Joyce novel
• Wake (Lisa McMann novel), young adult speculative fiction novel by Lisa McMann
• Wake (Robert J. Sawyer novel), a 2009 Robert J. Sawyer novel about a sentient internet
• Wake (comics) comics, a French comic in book collection format created by Morvan and Buchet

Games

• Alan Wake, a 2010 video game
• Crasher Wake, a Gym Leader in the Pokémon video games

Music

• Wake (Dead Can Dance album), 2003
• Wake (Floater album), 2010
• Wake (Mortal album), 1994
• Wake (Tara MacLean album), 2008
• Wake (Trio Töykeät album), 2005
• The Wake (band), a British post-punk band
• The Wake (US band), an American goth rock band from Columbus, Ohio
• "Wake", a song from The Antlers' 2009 album Hospice
• "Wake", a song from Linkin Park's from Minutes to Midnight
• "Wake", the video release of one of The Sisters of Mercy's 1985 concerts at The Royal Albert Hall

People

• Brian Wake (born 1982), English footballer
• Cameron Wake (born 1982), American football linebacker
• David B. Wake (born 1936), biologist and herpetologist
• Harry Wake (1901–1981), English footballer
• Hereward the Wake (born 1035), 11th-century Anglo-Saxon leader
• Isaac Wake (1580–1632), English diplomat and political commentator
• John Wake (born 1953), English cricketer
• Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell (1297–1349), wife of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent
• Nancy Wake (born 1912), New Zealand born Australian who served as a British spy during World War II
• Neil Vincent Wake (born 1948), United States federal judge
• Ric Wake, record producer
• Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell (1297–1349), English baron
• William Wake (1657–1737), Archbishop of Canterbury
• William Wake (cricketer) (1852–1896), English amateur first-class cricketer
• William Wake (governor), governor of Bombay

Places and schools

• Wake, Okayama, Japan
• Wake County, North Carolina, county in North Carolina, in which the state capital of Raleigh is located
• Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA
• Wake Forest University
• Wake Island, a U.S. possession in the Pacific Ocean

Science and nature

• Wake, a group of vultures
• Wake low, a meteorological phenomenon which can cause high winds

Technology and engineering

• Wake, to awaken computer and electronic devices, is to return from sleep mode
• Wake turbulence, the air turbulence that forms around and behind an aircraft