Wendell

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Wendell is a name that has many uses:

Places

• Wendell, Idaho, USA
• Wendell, Massachusetts, USA
• Wendell, Minnesota, USA
• Wendell, North Carolina, USA

People

• Wendell, modernised form of Waendel, the founder of Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, England
• Wendell Anderson - Minnesota, USA politician
• Wendell Berry - American novelist, poet, essayist and farmer
• Wendell H. Ford - Kentucky, USA politician
• Wendell Johnson - psychologist and author
• Wendell Cushing Neville - Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
• Wendell Phillips - Massachusetts, USA abolitionist and activist
• Wendell Tan Vooi Ley - The chief editor (term05/06) of the oldest school in South East Asia, Penang Free School
• Wendell Meredith Stanley - Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and virologist
• Wendell H. Murphy - North Carolina politician
• Wendell Willkie - United States Republican Party nominee for the 1940 presidential election (lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• Krissy Wendell - American ice hockey player
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - poet and essayist
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Characters

• Wendell Borton is a recurring character on the television series The Simpsons.
• Wendell, a character in the Animal Crossing video game series