Wendell
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Wendell is a name that has many uses:
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In the United States:
[edit] People
[edit] First name
- Wendell Alexis, American basketball player
- Wendell Anderson, American politician from Minnesota
- Wendell Berry, American novelist, poet, essayist and farmer
- Wendell Bryant, Professional Football Player
- Wendell Burton, American Actor and Singer
- Wendell H. Ford, American politician from Kentucky
- Wendell Johnson, psychologist and author
- Wendell Lawrence, Bahamian triple jumper
- Wendell H. Murphy, American politician from North Carolina
- Wendell Cushing Neville, Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
- Wendell Phillips, American abolitionist and activist from Massachusetts
- Wendell Sailor, Australian dual-code rugby international
- Wendell Meredith Stanley, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and virologist
- Wendell Willkie, Republican Party nominee for the 1940 U.S. presidential election (lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt)
[edit] Middle name
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet and essayist
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
[edit] Surname
- David Wendell, Award-winning scientist
- James Wendell, 1912 Olympic silver medalist
- James A. Wendell, New York State Comptroller 1921-1922
- Krissy Wendell, American ice hockey player
- Nathan D. Wendell, New York State Treasurer 1880-1881
- Percy Langdon Wendell, Harvard football captain
- Turk Wendell, American baseball player 1993-2004
[edit] In fiction
- Wendell Borton, a recurring character on the television series The Simpsons
[edit] Other uses
- Wendellhead, a trick-based card game, derived from the rules of whist and using tactics similar to that of contract bridge
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