Wendell (name)

Wendell is a name of uncertain origin. It may derive from the Germanic Wenden (to travel) or possibly from the term Wend, the historical name of a Slavic people living in Germany.[1]

Notable people with the name Wendell include:

## First name[edit]

* Wendell Alexis, American basketball player
* Wendell Anderson, American politician from Minnesota
* Wendell Berry, American novelist, poet, essayist and farmer
* Wendell Nascimento Borges, Brazilian football defender
* Wendell Brown, American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and inventor
* Wendell Bryant, American football player
* Wendell Butcher, American football player
* Wendell Burton, American actor and singer
* Wendell Carter Jr., American Basketball Player for the NBA's Chicago Bulls
* Wendell H. Ford, American politician from Kentucky
* Wendell James Franklin (1916–1994) African-American film executive
* Wendell Johnson, American psychologist and author
* Wendell Lawrence, Bahamian triple jumper
* Wendell Lucena Ramalho, Brazilian football goalkeeper and coach
* Wendell Moore (disambiguation), multiple people
* 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 Pierce, American actor
* Wendell Pritchett, American educator
* Wendell Ramos, Filipino actor
* Wendell Sailor, Australian dual-code rugby international
* Wendell Scott, American NASCAR driver who was the first African-American to win a race in the NASCAR Cup Series
* Wendell Smith, African-American sportswriter
* Wendell Meredith Stanley, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and virologist
* Wendell Craig Williams, Pennsylvania State Representative
* Wendell Willkie, Republican Party nominee for the 1940 U.S. presidential election (lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt)

## Middle name[edit]

* Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., poet and essayist
* Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

## Surname[edit]

* Barrett Wendell, American academic
* David Wendell, award-winning scientist
* Howard Wendell (1908–1975), American actor
* James Wendell, 1912 Olympic silver medalist
* James A. Wendell, New York State Comptroller 1921–1922
* Krissy Wendell, American ice hockey player
* Marty Wendell, American football player
* Nathan D. Wendell, New York State Treasurer 1880–1881
* Percy Langdon Wendell, Harvard football captain
* Turk Wendell, American baseball player 1993–2004

## Fictional people[edit]

* Wendell Borton, a recurring character on the television series The Simpsons
* Wendel "Wen" Gifford, a character in the young adult novel Lemonade Mouth
* Wendell, a character from the cartoon series Mike, Lu, and Og
* Wendell Fidget, a recurring character on the television series Sofia the First
* Wendell Bray, one of the interns of Temperance Brennan from the series Bones
* Prince Wendell, one of the main characters in a miniseries The 10th Kingdom
* Oliver Wendell Jones, one of the main characters in the comic strip Bloom County

## See also[edit]

* Wendel (name)

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Origin of the name Wendell". babyname wizard. Retrieved December 13, 2019.

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