Wendy
Pronunciation | (/ˈwɛndi/) |
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Gender | Female |
Language(s) | English |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | Wendi |
Related names | Gwendolyn, Gwen, Wendeline, Wendelinda, Winifred |
Wendy is a given name now generally given to girls in English-speaking countries.
In Britain during the
In Germany after 1986, the name Wendy became popular because it is the name of a magazine (targeted specifically at young girls) about horses and horse riding.
People
Business and politics
- Wendy Davis, American politician
- Wendi Deng, Chinese-born American businesswoman
- Wendy Morgan, Guernsey politician
- Wendy Thomas (born 1961), daughter of fast food chain Wendy's founder Dave Thomas and the company's namesake
- Wendy Thomas (politician) (born 1958 or 1959), New Hampshire state representative
Film, theatre, television, and radio
- Wendy Beckett (1930–2018), British religious sister and art historian
- Wendy Bergen (1956–2017), American television journalist
- Wendy Craig (born 1934), English actress
- Wendy Davis (born 1966), American actress
- Wendy Greengross (1925–2012), English general practitioner and broadcaster
- Wendy Hiller (1912–2003), English actress
- Wendy Hoopes (born 1972), Malaysian American voice actress
- Wendy Kaufman (born 1958), American television personality
- Wendie Malick (born 1950), American actress and former fashion model
- Wendi McLendon-Covey (born 1969), American actress and comedian
- Wendy Mesley (born 1957), Canadian television journalist and reporter
- Wendy Morgan, English actress
- Wendy Morgan, Canadian film director
- Wendy Padbury (born 1947), English actress
- Wendi Peters (born 1968), English actress
- Wendy Phillips (born 1952), American actress
- Wendy Richard (1943–2009), English actress
- Wendy Robie (born 1953), American actress
- Wendy Raquel Robinson (born 1967), American actress
- Wendie Jo Sperber (1958–2005), American actress
- Wendy Schaal (born 1954), American actress
- Wendy Stites (born 1949), Australian production and costume designer
- Wendy Tilby (born 1960), Canadian animator and director
- Wendy Toye (1917–2010), English director and actress
- Wendy Williams (1934–2019), English actress
- Wendy Williams (born 1964), American television and radio presenter, businesswoman, author, actress and media personality
- Wendy O. Williams (1949-1998), American singer and former member of Plasmatics.
Sports
- Wendy Brown (heptathlete), American heptathlete
- Wendy Cruz, Dominican Republic cyclist
- Wendy Fuller, Canadian diver
- Wendy Holdener, Swiss alpine skier
- Wendy Lucero, American diver
- Wendie Renard, French football player
- Wendy Richter, American wrestler
- Wendy Vereen (born 1966), American former sprinter
- Wendy Weinberg, American Olympic medalist swimmer
- Wendy Wyland (1964-2003), American diver
Arts
- Wendy Bagwell (1925–1996), founding member and leader of the Southern gospel music and comedy trio Wendy Bagwell and the Sunliters
- Wendy Carlos, American composer
- Wendy Chung, Hong Kong pop and C-Pop lyricist
- Wendy Cope, English poet
- Wendy Davies, British professor of history
- Wendy J. Fox, American author
- Wendy Holden (author, born 1961), British journalist and author
- Wendy Holden (author, born 1965), British chick-lit novelist
- Wendy James, Transvision Vamp's singer
- Wendy Mass (born 1967), American author especially of young adult and children's novels
- Wendy Melvoin, musician and composer and twin sister of Susannah Melvoin
- Wendy Partridge, costume designer
- Wendy Pepper, fashion designer
- Wendy Pini, creator, artist and writer of the fantasy comic book universe Elfquest
- Wendy Shon, Korean singer and member of Red Velvet
- Wendy Sulca, Peruvian singer
- Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright
- Wendy Whelan, American ballet dancer and associate artistic director of New York City Ballet
- Wendy O. Williams, stripper turned punk rocker and leader of the Plasmatics
- Wendy Wilson, pop singer of Wilson Phillips fame and daughter of The Beach Boys singer, Brian Wilson
- Wendy Rose (born 1948), Hopi/Miwok writer.
Science and engineering
- Wendy Campbell-Purdie (1925–1985) was a New Zealand tree-planter
- Wendy Chung, geneticist
- Wendy Gibson, British professor in protozoology
- Wendy Lou (born 1962), Canadian statistician
- Wendy L. Martinez, American statistician
- Wendy Lee Queen (born 1981), American chemist and material scientist
Other
- Wendy Albano (died 2012), American woman who was murdered in Bangkok
- Wendy Fitzwilliam, Miss Universe 1998 from Trinidad and Tobago
- Wendy M. Masiello, United States Air Force officer
- Wendy Metcalfe, Canadian journalist, editor and news executive
- Wendi Michelle Scott (born 1975), American criminal convicted of abusing her daughter in a case of Münchausen syndrome by proxy
- Wendy Osefo, Public affairs academic, political commentator and The Real Housewives of Potomac cast member
- Wendy Wolin (1958–1966), American murder victim
Fictional characters
- Wendy Corduroy in Gravity Falls
- Wendy Harris in the Super Friends cartoon and comic book
- Wendy Johnson in My Parents are Aliens
- Wendy O. Koopa, one of the Koopalings in the Mario franchise
- Wendy Marvell in Fairy Tail
- Wendy Peyser in American Horror Story: Asylum
- Wendy Byrde in Ozark
- Wendy Testaburger in South Park
- Wendy Rhoades, wife of Chuck Rhoades and a psychiatrist/performance coach at Axe Capital in Showtime series Billions
- Winnifred "Wendy" Torrance, one of the main characters in Stephen King's The Shining
- Wendy Wu, the titular character of Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
- Wendy the Good Little Witch in Harvey Comics
- Wendy, a character in Bob the Builder
- Wendy Wolf, a character in Peppa Pig
- Wendy, a playable character in the indie survival game Don't Starve and its sequel Don't Starve Together
- Wendy in How I Met Your Mother
- Wendy, a Chow Chow from the 2018 Australian show Bluey
- Wendy Darling in Peter Pan
- Wendy Harris in Mom (TV series)
References
- ^ https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10038330/1/Peacey_BookChapter_Lilburne%20article3b.pdf
- ^ "An English Civil War 1649 hand written letter from Captain Wendy Oxford pledging funds to various". 9 March 2023.
- ^ James Heath, John Phillips (1675). A Chronicle of the Late Intestine War in the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland (2nd ed.). London: J.C. for Thomas Basset. p. 480.
- ^ Was the name Wendy invented for the book Peter Pan? at The Straight Dope
- ^ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, Dictionary of First Names, 1990
- ^ "Before this, the name simply didn't exist! The History of the name "Wendy"". Archived from the original on June 27, 2001.
- ^ "Wendy - Meaning and Origin of the Name Wendy | BabyNames.co.uk".
- ^ "The History of Wendy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-18. Retrieved 2009-07-25.
- ISBN 9780091902070.