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Wayne is a given name that derives from the surname Wayne. It may refer to: * Wayne Allwine (1947–2009), American voice actor * Wayne Arnold (born 1984), American professional basketball player *
Wayne K. Blickenstaff Wayne K. Blickenstaff (June 25, 1920 – December 23, 2011) was a highly decorated United States Army Air Forces lieutenant colonel. He was a flying ace credited with 10 aerial victories, including five in a single day, for which he was awarded ...
(1920–2011), American World War II flying ace *
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?'' He was the host ...
(born 1972), American actor *
Wayne Maurice Caron Wayne Maurice Caron (November 2, 1946 – July 28, 1968) was a United States Navy hospital corpsman who was killed in action while serving with a United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps rifle company in the Vietnam War. For heroic actions above a ...
(1946–1968), Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient * Wayne Cochran (1939–2017), American singer *
Wayne M. Collins Wayne Mortimer Collins (November 23, 1899 – July 16, 1974) was a civil rights attorney who worked on cases related to the Japanese American evacuation and internment. Biography Personal life Collins was born in Sacramento, California, to ...
(1899–1974), American civil rights attorney * Wayne Couzens (born 1972), British convicted murderer and former police officer * Wayne Coyne (born 1961), American musician * Wayne Fontana (1945–2020), English rock and pop singer * Wayne Fuller (born 1931), American statistician * Wayne Gallman (born 1994), American football player *
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 * Wayne Hendrickson (born 1941) American biophysicist and University professor at Columbia * Wayne Knight (born 1955), American actor * Wayne Kramer (disambiguation), several people * Wayne Millner (1913–1976), American football player * Wayne Mixson (1922–2020), American politician *
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 * Wayne O'Sullivan (born 1974), Irish football manager * Wayne Panton, Caymanian Premier * Wayne Pivac (born 1962), New Zealand rugby union coach * Wayne "Tree" Rollins (born 1955), a former American basketball player *
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 ...
(born 1985), a former English professional footballer and now manager. *
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 A ...
(born 1946), an American engineering manager * 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 ...
* Wayne Sermon (born 1984), American musician *
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 Dav ...
(born 1933), American jazz saxophonist and composer *
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 Predato ...
(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 ...
* Wayne Sleep (born 1948), British dancer *
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 * Wayne Weaver (born 1935), American businessman * Wayne Williams (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'' * 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 appeare ...
'' * 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 Supe ...
'' * Wayne, the main character of the indie video game '' Hylics''. {{given name, cat1=English masculine given names