Wing (disambiguation)

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A wing is an appendage used for flight by an animal or an apparatus used to create lift in aeronautics.

Wing may also refer to:

Places

• Wing, Buckinghamshire, England
• Wing, Rutland, England
• Wing, Alabama, United States
• Wing, North Dakota, United States

In fiction

• Wing (DC Comics), a DC Comics character
• Wing (Marvel Comics), a minor Astonishing X-Men character
• Wing (Transformers), a character from the Transformers universe
• Wing (Hunter × Hunter), a character from the manga series Hunter × Hunter
• Wing, an island in Julie Bertgna's 2002 novel Exodus

People

Given name

• Chan Siu Wing (born 1993), Hong Kong basketball player

Surname

• Anna Wing (1914–2013), English actress
• Brad Wing (born 1991), American-football player from Australia
• Craig Wing (born 1979), rugby league player for the Sydney Roosters
• Donald Goddard Wing (1904–1972), Yale Librarian, compiler of a notable short title catalogue of books
• Jerry L. Wing (1923–1994), American businessman and politician
• Joseph Wing (born 1810) and William Ricketson Wing (1830–1908), owners of whaling company J. & W. R. Wing Company
• Lorna Wing (born 1928), Aspergers syndrome researcher
• Toby Wing (1915–2001), American actress
• Jeannette Wing, computer science researcher and corporate vice president of Microsoft Research
• Warner Wing (1805–1876), American jurist and legislator

Other uses

• Wing (building), part of a building—or any feature of a building—that is subordinate to the main, central structure
  • a projection like a wing wall
  • a subordinate part of a building such as a cross-wing
  • the sides of a theatre stage
• Wing (singer), stage name of Wing Han Tsang (born 1960), a New Zealand singer from Hong Kong
• "Wing" (South Park), an episode of South Park featuring the singer Wing
• Wing (military aviation unit)
• Wing (basketball), a combination shooting guard and small forward, also known as a "swingman"
• WING, an AM radio station in Dayton, Ohio, United States
• WinG, a Windows interface in computing
• Part of a backplate and wing, a device worn by scuba divers
• One of several botanical terms
• Buffalo wing, a spicy chicken wing
• Another term for fender (vehicle), the automobile panel which surrounds the wheel
• A type of spoiler (automotive), an aerodynamic device intended to generate downforce on an automobile
• T-Mobile Wing, a Pocket PC phone
• Wing IDE, an integrated development environment for Python
• Wing Records, a record label
• "The Wing", informal name of the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
• Wing (Waltz), a Waltz dance figure

See also

• Wings (disambiguation)
• Winger (sports), a position in several sports
• All pages beginning with "Wing"
• All pages with a title containing Wing