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.

Notable people with the name Wendell include:

First name

• 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

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

Surname

• 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

• 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

• Wendel (name)