Wanda

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Contents 1 Foreign Forms 2 People 3 Geography 4 Culture 5 Fictional characters 6 Other

Wanda (WAHN-da (English), VAHN-dah (Polish)) is a Polish female forename, probably created by Wincenty Kadłubek. The name was introduced to the English-speaking world by Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée), who used it for the heroine of her novel Wanda (1883). It may also refer to:

[edit] Foreign Forms

• Ang. – Wendela, Wanda
• Ces. – Vanda
• Deu. – Wanda
• Esp. – Vanda
• Port. - Vanda
• Fra. – Wanda, Vanda
• Mag./Hun. – Vanda
• Lat. – Wanda, Vanda
• Ita. –
  • Unisex: Vanda, Wandina, Vandina.
  • Masculine: Wando, Vando, Vandino.
• Rus. – Vanda

[edit] People

• Saint Wando Abbot (San Wando Abate)
• Wanda Sykes, an American comedian
• Wanda Keenan, an English comedian
• Wanda Perry-Josephs, an American gospel music singer
• Wanda Rutkiewicz, a Polish mountain climber, the first woman to climb K2
• Wanda Brunner
• Wanda Wasilewska (1905-1964)
• Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski
• Wanda Tinasky (pseudonym)
• Wanda Guenette (born 1962), Canadian volleyball player
• Wanda Jackson (ca. 1937)
• Wanda Jakubowska (1907-1998)
• Wanda Klaff (1922-1946)
• Wanda Landowska (1877-1959)
• Wanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos
• Wanda Marasco
• Wanda Osiris
• Wanda Gertz (1896-1958)
• Wanda Bacewicz (ca. 1911)
• Wanda Blonska-Wolfarth (ca. 1934)
• Wanda Bobrowska-Nowak (ca. 1925), psycholog
• Wanda Budohoska (ca. 1920)
• Wanda Chodkowska (1905-1944)
• Wanda Chotomska (ca. 1929)
• Wanda Dabrowska (1884-1974), Bibliotechist
• Wanda Dobaczewska (1892-1980)
• Wanda Golkowska (ca. 1925)
• Wanda Kwietniewska (ca. 1957)
• Wanda Leyko (ca. 1921), radiobiolog
• Wanda Luczycka (1907-1996
• Wanda Lyzwinska (ca. 1953)
• Wanda Neumann (ca. 1945)
• Wanda Majer (ca. 1932)
• Wanda Macedonska-Zalewska (ca. 1929)
• Wanda Moszczenska (1896-1974
• Wanda Opechowska (1888-1955)
• Wanda Panfil-Gonzales (ca. 1959)
• Wanda Paklikowska-Winnicka (ca. 1914)
• Wanda Rewienska (1897-1942)
• Wanda Rolbieska (1876-1952)
• Wanda Rutkiewicz-Blaszkiewicz (1943-1992)
• Wanda Siemaszkowa (1867-1947)
• Wanda Stanislawska-Lothe (ca. 1910)
• Wanda Szuman (1890-1994)
• Wanda Truszkowska (1917-2004), botanist, Phitopatholog
• Wanda Warska (ca. 1932)
• Wanda Werminska (1900-1988)
• Wanda Wilkomirska (ur. 1929)
• Wanda Zmarzer (ca. 1941), Philolog
• Wanda Zielenczyk (1920-1943)
• Wanda Zolkiewska (1909-1989)
• Jenny Wanda Barkmann
• Halasz Vanda

[edit] Geography

• Wanda, Minnesota
• Wanda, Missouri
• Wanda Township, Nebraska
• Wanda Beach in Sydney New South Wales, Australia
• Wanda (ethnic group), a people in Tanzania

[edit] Culture

• Princess Wanda, a legendary princess in Polish legends
• Wanda, the fifth of Anto­nín Dvořák's 11 operas, based on a Polish legend
• Wanda (magazine), a weekly literature magazine in Warsaw
• Wanda (film), a 1971 American film
• A Fish Called Wanda, a 1988 British film

[edit] Fictional characters

• Cosmo and Wanda, cartoon characters from The Fairly OddParents
• Wanda, the main controllable character in Mario & Wario
• The bad queen Vanda of the planet Vandalusia in the indication trick series sport Billy.
• Wanda Maximoff, the X-Men character Scarlet Witch.
• Wanda Li, a character in The Magic School Bus educational series.
• Half of the singing duo Wayne and Wanda on The Muppet Show
• Wanda and the Colossus (ワンダと巨像, Wanda to Kyozō), the Japanese name of the PlayStation 2 video game Shadow of the Colossus and its title main character.
• Wanda Dollard - a character on the Canadian TV show Corner Gas, who works at the fictional gas station of the same name
• Wanda Firebaugh, a character from the webcomic Erfworld.
• Wanda Seldon - in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.
• Wanda is also a popular name in BDSM circles, it being main figure in Sacher-Masochs novel Venus in Fur.
• Wanda, a key character from the Todd McFarlene's Spawn Series, she is the widowed wife to Al Simmons (Spawn).
• Wanda, Wilhelmina Slater's actual name.

[edit] Other

• 1057 Wanda, an asteroid