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Andy Wightman Andrew Dearg Wightman is a Scottish Independent politician, Independent politician, who served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Lothian (Scottish Parliament electoral region), Lothian region from 2016 to 2021. He was elect ...

, Scottish

Green Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 Nanometre, nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by ...

MSP and writer *

Arthur Wightman Arthur Strong Wightman (March 30, 1922 – January 13, 2013) was an American mathematical physicist. He was one of the founders of the axiomatic approach to quantum field theory, and originated the set of Wightman axioms. With his rigorous treatm ...

(1922–2013), American theoretical physicist * Brian Wightman (born 1976), Australian politician *

Bruce Wightman Bruce Wightman (5 March 1925 – 8 January 2009) was a New Zealand actor and expert on Bram Stoker who co-founded the Dracula Society. Early life Coming from a theatrical family, Wightman spent most of his adult life on stage, touring many ...

(1925–2009), actor who co-founded the

Dracula Society The Dracula Society is a London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east Eng ...

in London in 1973 * Edith Wightman (1938–1983), British historian and archaeologist *

Edward Wightman Edward Wightman (1566 – 11 April 1612) was an English radical Anabaptist minister, executed at Lichfield on charges of heresy. He was the last person to be burned at the stake in England for heresy. Life Edward Wightman was born in 1566. ...

(1580–1612), English Baptist, last person to be burnt for heresy in England. *

Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman Hazel Virginia Hotchkiss Wightman, CBE (née Hotchkiss; December 20, 1886 – December 5, 1974) was an American tennis player and founder of the Wightman Cup, an annual team competition for British and American women. She dominated American wom ...

(1886–1974), American tennis player *

Jake Wightman Jake Wightman (born 11 July 1994) is a British middle-distance runner competing primarily in the 1500 metres. He won the gold medal at the 2022 World Championships, the first global gold in a middle distance event for a British male since Seb ...

(born 1994), British athlete * John Wightman (1930–2017), American lawyer and politician *

Joseph Wightman (general) Joseph Wightman was a British Army officer who is best noted for his role in the suppression of the 1715 and 1719 Jacobite rebellions. Wightman also participated in the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession. Early life Wightm ...

(c.1665-1722), a British soldier of the eighteenth century * Julia Parker Wightman (1909-1994), American bibliophile and book collector *

Louise Wightman Louise Fitzgerald Wightman (''née'' Johnson), also known as Lucy Wightman (born June 18, 1959 in Lake Forest, Illinois), is an American former exotic dancer who performed in Boston and Providence during the 1970s and 1980s, using the stage name Pr ...

(Lucy) (born 1959), American bodybuilder and dancer * Mark Wightman (born 1947), British chemist *

Reginald Wightman Reginald Frederick Wightman (May 28, 1899 – January 23, 1981) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive from 1949 to 1958. Wightman was born in Nesbitt, Manitoba. He wa ...

(1899–1981), Canadian politician *

Robert Wightman Robert Wightman (born December 29, 1952) is an American actor. Biography He has often worked in the theater, notably in the West Coast Premier of the Tennessee Williams' play '' Vieux Carré'' produced with Williams' blessing by Karen Kondazian ...

(born 1952), American actor *

Thomas Wightman Thomas Wightman (1811–1888) was an American painter of the nineteenth century, noted especially for his portraits and still life paintings. Life and career Wightman was a native of Charleston, South Carolina. His parents were William and Engl ...

(1811–1888), American painter *Bishop William May Wightman (1808–1882), American educator and clergyman

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* Wightman, Iowa, United States * Wightman, Virginia, United States * Wightmans Grove, Ohio, United States

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Wightman axioms In mathematical physics, the Wightman axioms (also called Gårding–Wightman axioms), named after Arthur Wightman, are an attempt at a mathematically rigorous formulation of quantum field theory. Arthur Wightman formulated the axioms in the ear ...

in quantum field theory, named after Arthur Wightman *

Wightman Cup The Wightman Cup was an annual team tennis competition for women contested from 1923 through 1989 (except during World War II) between teams from the United States and Great Britain. History U.S. player Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman wanted to gen ...

, a former tennis competition between UK and U.S.A. named after Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman

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