Wayne is a given name that derives from the surname
Wayne. It may refer to:
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Wayne Allwine
Wayne Anthony Allwine (February 7, 1947 – May 18, 2009) was an American voice actor, sound effects editor and foley artist for The Walt Disney Company. He is best remembered as the 3rd official voice of Mickey Mouse. He is the longest-tenured ...
(1947–2009), American voice actor
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Wayne Arnold (born 1984), American professional basketball player
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Wayne K. Blickenstaff (1920–2011), American World War II flying ace
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Wayne Brady
Wayne Alphonso Brady (born June 2, 1972) is an American television personality, comedian, actor, and singer. He is a regular on the American version of the improvisational comedy television series ''Whose Line Is It Anyway? (American TV series) ...
(born 1972), American actor
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Wayne Maurice Caron (1946–1968), Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient
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Wayne Cochran (1939–2017), American singer
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Wayne M. Collins (1899–1974), American civil rights attorney
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Wayne Couzens (born 1972), British convicted murderer and former police officer
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Wayne Coyne
Wayne Michael Coyne (born January 13, 1961) is an American musician. He is the lead singer, guitarist, keyboardist, theremin player and songwriter for the band the Flaming Lips.
Early life
Coyne was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United Stat ...
(born 1961), American musician
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(1945–2020), English rock and pop singer
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Wayne Fuller
Wayne Arthur Fuller (born June 15, 1931) is an American statistician who has specialised in econometrics, survey sampling and time series analysis. He was on the staff of Iowa State University from 1959, becoming a Distinguished Professor in 1983 ...
(born 1931), American statistician
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Wayne Gallman
Wayne Gallman Jr. (born October 1, 1994) is an American football running back who is a free agent. He played college football at Clemson and contributed to win the CFP national championship (2017) before being drafted in the fourth round of the ...
(born 1994), American football player
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Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Douglas Gretzky ( ; born January 26, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. He played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for four teams from 1979 to 1999. Nicknamed "the Great One ...
(born 1961), Canadian former professional ice hockey player
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Wayne Hendrickson
Wayne A. Hendrickson (born April 25, 1941, New York City) is an American biophysicist and University professor at Columbia. Dr. Hendrickson is a University Professor at Columbia University in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophys ...
(born 1941) American biophysicist and University professor at Columbia
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Wayne Knight
Wayne Elliot Knight (born August 7, 1955) is an American actor. In television, he played Newman on ''Seinfeld'' (1992–1998) and Officer Don Orville on ''3rd Rock from the Sun'' (1996–2001). He also voiced Igor on '' Toonsylvania'' (1998 ...
(born 1955), American actor
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Wayne Kramer (disambiguation), several people
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Wayne Millner
Wayne Vernal Millner (January 31, 1913 – November 19, 1976) was an American college and professional football player who was known for his clutch play as an offensive and defensive end for both the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and for the Nation ...
(1913–1976), American football player
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Wayne Mixson
John Wayne Mixson (June 16, 1922 – July 8, 2020) was an American politician and farmer in Florida who served as the 12th lieutenant governor of Florida from 1979 to 1987, and as the 39th governor of Florida for three days in January 1987. ...
(1922–2020), American politician
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Wayne Newton
Carson Wayne Newton (born April 3, 1942) is an American singer and actor. One of the most popular singers in the nation from the mid-to-late 20th-century, Newton remains one of the best-known entertainers in Las Vegas. He is known by the nicknam ...
(born 1942), American singer and entertainer
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Wayne O'Sullivan (born 1974), Irish football manager
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Wayne Panton
Wayne Panton is a Caymanian politician, currently serving as Premier of the Cayman Islands.
Biography
Panton is an attorney who served as a managing partner for Walkers. Before becoming Premier of the Cayman Islands, Wayne Panton, served as a ...
, Caymanian Premier
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Wayne Pivac
Wayne Pivac (born 1962) is a New Zealand rugby union coach. In November 2019 he replaced Warren Gatland as the Wales national team coach. A former sworn officer in the New Zealand Police, he was a constable at the Takapuna police station on Au ...
(born 1962), New Zealand rugby union coach
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Wayne "Tree" Rollins (born 1955), a former American basketball player
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Wayne Rooney
Wayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English professional football manager and former player, who is the manager of Major League Soccer club D.C. United in the United States. He spent much of his playing career as a forward while a ...
(born 1985), a former English professional footballer and now manager.
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Wayne Rosing
Wayne Rosing (born 1946) is an American engineering manager.
Rosing was an engineering manager at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Data General in the 1970s.
He became a director of engineering at Apple Computer in 1980. There he led the Ap ...
(born 1946), an American engineering manager
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Wayne Selden Jr. (born 1994), American basketball player in the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Ligat HaAl ( he, ליגת העל, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional competition in Israeli club basketball, making it Israel's primary basketball co ...
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Wayne Sermon
Daniel Wayne Sermon (born June 15, 1984) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is the lead guitarist for the pop rock band Imagine Dragons.
Early life
Sermon was born on June 15, 1984 in American Fork, Utah to parents Jeff ...
(born 1984), American musician
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Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he joined Miles Da ...
(born 1933), American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Wayne Simmonds
Wayne Simmonds (born August 26, 1988) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). Simmonds has previously played for the Los Angeles Kings, Philadelphia Flyers, Nashville Predat ...
(born 1988), Canadian professional ice hockey player in
NHL
The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranked professional ...
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Wayne Sleep
Wayne Philip Colin Sleep (born 17 July 1948) is a British dancer, director, choreographer, and actor who appeared on the BBC series '' The Real Marigold on Tour'' and ITV's '' The Real Full Monty''.
Early life
Sleep was born in Plymouth, De ...
(born 1948), British dancer
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Wayne Static
Wayne Richard Wells (November 4, 1965 – November 1, 2014), known professionally as Wayne Static, was an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, and primary lyricist for metal band Static-X. He released his ...
(1965–2014), American musician
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Wayne Weaver
J. Wayne Weaver (born January 14, 1935) is an American businessman. He owns the shoe store chains Shoe Carnival and Nine West, and was the first owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL) from 1993 to 2011.
Biogra ...
(born 1935), American businessman
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Wayne Williams
Wayne Bertram Williams (born May 27, 1958) is an American convicted murderer and suspected serial killer who is serving life imprisonment for the 1981 killing of two men in Atlanta, Georgia. Although never tried, he is nonetheless believed to b ...
(born 1958), American murderer and
possible serial killer
Fictional characters
* Wayne Campbell, from the Saturday Night Live sketch "
Wayne's World" and subsequent films
* Wayne Cramp, the protagonist of ''
The Cramp Twins
''The Cramp Twins'' is an animated television series created by cartoonist Brian Wood based on his 1995 graphic novel of the same name. The show was produced by Sunbow Entertainment (in season 1), Telemagination (in season 2), and TV-Loonland AG ...
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* Wayne, a
character in ''6teen'', an animated sitcom
* Wayne, a character in ''
The Bash Street Kids
''The Bash Street Kids'' is a comic strip in the British comic magazine ''The Beano''. It also appeared briefly in The Wizard as series of prose stories in 1955. The strip, created by Leo Baxendale as ''When the Bell Rings'', first appear ...
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* Wayne Szalinski, main character in the
''Honey I Shrunk the Kids'' trilogy
* Wayne Arnold, one of the main characters in ''
The Wonder Years
''The Wonder Years'' is an American coming-of-age comedy/drama television series created by Neal Marlens and Carol Black. It ran on ABC from January 31, 1988, until May 12, 1993. The series premiered immediately after ABC's coverage of Super ...
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* Wayne, the main character of the indie video game ''
Hylics
Hylic (from Greek (''hylē'') "matter") is the opposite of psychic (from Greek (''psychē'') "soul").
In the gnostic belief system, hylics, also called somatics (from Greek (''sōma'') "body"), were the lowest order of the three types of hum ...
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