Wanderer

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Wanderer, Wanderers, or The Wanderer may refer to:

• Itinerant people, who wander from place to place with no permanent home, or are vagrant
• A homeless man or woman who trolls dating websites for lonely people in order to find a free place to stay
• new generation of homeless hipster, usually have a home to go to but prefer to travel and beg for money, usually start in their 20s
• A cheater, one who wanders from bed to bed, a philanderer
• Wanderer butterflies, certain wide-ranging brush-footed butterflies:
  • Bematistes aganice, a species of tropical Africa
  • Danaus plexippus (Monarch), a species of the Americas
  • Pareronia, a genus of tropical Asia
• Wanderer (car), a German automobile manufacturer in the interwar period
• The Wanderer, an alternate name for the Wandering Jew
• The Wanderer (newspaper), a Catholic national weekly based in Minnesota
• The Wanderer (Massachusetts newspaper), a weekly newspaper in southeastern Massachusetts
• World Wide Web Wanderer, an early web crawler
• Wanderer (AROS), a user interface based on Zune widget toolkit
• Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers), a group of Russian artists
• A Dark Room Aliens who destroyed A Barren World. The Player is a Wanderer, as is the Builder and everyone in the Player's village

People

• Carl Wanderer (1895-1921), American murderer

Places

• Wanderers Creek, a river in Texas, United States
• Wanderer Valley, a valley in South Georgia Island

Literature

Novels and books

• The Wanderer (1814 novel), a novel by Frances Burney, full title The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties
• Wanderers, a 1909 Knut Hamsun anthology including the translated novels A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings (1909) and Under the Autumn Star (1906)
• The Wanderer or Le Grand Meaulnes, a 1913 novel by Alain-Fournier
• The Wanderer (Waltari novel), a 1949 novel by Mika Waltari
• The Wanderer (1953 novel), a children's novel by Monica Edwards
• Wanderer, the 1963 autobiography by Sterling Hayden
• The Wanderer (Leiber novel), 1964
• The Wanderers (Price novel), a 1974 novel by Richard Price
• The Wanderers (Rimland novel), a 1977 novel by Ingrid Rimland
• Wanderer (novel), a 1985 science fiction novel by Dennis Schmidt
• The Wanderer (Sharon Creech novel), a 2000 novel by Sharon Creech

Poems

• "The Wanderer" (poem), an Old English poem
• "The Wanderer", a 1726 poem by Richard Savage
• "The Wanderer" (Maykov poem), a poem by Apollon Maykov first published in 1867
• "The Wanderer", a poem by John Masefield (1878-1967), inspired by the ship Wanderer (ship, 1891)
• "The Wanderer", a 1921 poem by Henry Lane Eno

Further works

• Wanderers (comics), a DC Comics publication
• The Wanderer (manga), by Narumi Kakinouchi

Music

• Der Wanderer, an 1816 song by Franz Schubert
• Wanderer Fantasy, a fantasy for piano by Franz Schubert
• The Wanderer, the god Wotan in Wagner's Siegfried
• "The Wanderer" or "Po dikim stepyam Zabaikalya", a Russian folk song
• "The Wanderer" (Dion song), a 1961 song by Dion covered by many other artists
• The Wanderer (Donna Summer album), a Donna Summer album from 1980
  • "The Wanderer" (Donna Summer song), a 1980 song on the album above
  • The Wanderer Tour, a 1981 concert tour associated with the album above
• The Wanderers, a 1981 punk band established by Stiv Bators
• The Wanderer, a 1988 album by Kevin Rowland
• "The Wanderer" (U2 song), a 1993 song by U2 with lead vocals by Johnny Cash
• The Wanderer (O.A.R. album), 1997
• "The Wanderer", song by Emperor from their 1997 album Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
• "The Wanderer", song and album (2001) by Karunesh
• The Wanderer (Holy Blood album), 2002
• The Wanderer, a 2005 piece for a cappella voices by Ezequiel Viñao
• "Wanderer", 2007 song by the band Ensiferum on the album Victory Songs Song

Film and television

• The Wanderer (1913 film), silent film
• The Wanderer (1925 film), silent film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Greta Nissen and Wallace Beery
• The Wanderers (1979 film), film directed by Philip Kaufman
• The Wanderer in Bulgar, a 1989 rock opera film, performed in Tatar
• The Wanderer (1994 TV series), a 1994 British television series starring Bryan Brown
• The Wanderer (Doctor Who audio), 2012
• The Wanderer (Rayner), a character in Canadian television series Lost Girl, created by Michelle Lovretta, developed by Jay Firestone
• Wanderer, a male mallard duck who was Greenie's father in Leafie, a Hen into the Wild.

Sports

Playing grounds

• Old Wanderers, a cricket ground in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Wanderers Cricket Ground, Windhoek, Namibia
• Wanderers Grounds, a playing ground in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Wanderers Stadium, a cricket ground in Johannesburg, South Africa

Teams

• Wanderers Athletic Club, an athletics club in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Wanderers Cricket Club, a cricket club in Barbados
• Wanderers F.C., a former English football club, the first winners of the FA Cup
• Wanderers F.C. (rugby union), a rugby union club based in Dublin, Ireland.
• Wanderers Football Club, an Australian rules football club in Marrara, Northern Territory, Australia
• Wanderers is also used as the second part of the name of various sports teams, including:

Ships

• Pearson Wanderer, a 30-foot sailboat designed by Bill Shaw
• Wanderer (sailing dinghy), a 14-foot sailing dinghy designed by Ian Proctor

individual boat and ships:

• The Wanderer (slave ship, 1857), a ship involved in the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade in the 1850s
• Wanderer (steam yacht), built in 1878 and later HMS Sealark
• Wanderer (ship, 1891), a four-masted steel barque, which inspired John Masefield to write the poem Wanderer and was eventually run down by German steamship Gertrud Woermann on April 14, 1907.
• Wanderer (ship, 1893), ex-Gracie S., an 1893-built San Francisco pilot boat until 1947, later bought by Sterling Hayden and used for his voyage to Tahiti
• Wanderer, a 16-foot Wayfarer dinghy sailed by travelogue writer Frank Dye
• Wanderer, schooner sailed by Benjamin Boyd (1796–1851), a Scottish-Australian explorer

several naval vessels:

• HMS Wanderer, a British destroyer of World War II vintage
• USS Wanderer, the name of several United States Navy ships