Wylie

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Wylie is an English name meaning "well-watered meadow", and may also refer to:

People

  • Wylie (surname)
  • Wylie (Australian explorer), Aboriginal companion of Edward John Eyre during his crossing of the Nullarbor Plain in Australia
  • Wylie Breckenridge (1903–1991), rugby union player who represented Australia
  • Wylie Gelber (born 1988), American bassist and guitar maker, founding member of the band Dawes
  • Wylie Gibbs (born 1922), Australian politician
  • Wylie Cameron Grant (1879–1968), American tennis champion
  • Wylie Human (born 1979), South African rugby union winger
  • Wylie Stateman, American supervising sound editor
  • Wylie Sypher (1905–1987), American non-fiction writer and professor
  • Wylie Watson (1889–1966), British actor
  • Wylie G. Woodruff (1866–1930), American football player and coach

Fictional characters

  • Wile E. Coyote, a cartoon character whose name sounds similar to "Wily"
  • Wylie Burp, a character from the film An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
  • Wylie Endal, a character from Keeper Of The Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger

Places

United States

  • Lake Wylie, South Carolina
  • Wylie Township, Minnesota
  • Wylie, Texas, a city located primarily within Collin County
  • Wylie, Taylor County, Texas, an unincorporated community largely in the city limits of Abilene
  • Wylie Island, a bar island on the New River in Summers County, West Virginia
  • Lake Wylie, a reservoir, or man-made lake in the U.S. states of both South Carolina and North Carolina

Elsewhere

  • Wylie Bay, a bay 4 nautical miles (7 km) wide, lying between Cape Monaco and Norsel Point on the southwest coast of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula
  • Wylie Ridge, a ridge that extends westward from Meier Peak in the Admiralty Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica
  • Wylie, Ontario, a municipality in Eastern Ontario, Canada, on the Ottawa River in Renfrew County

Other

  • Wylie transliteration for Tibetan script
  • Wylie House Museum a historic house museum of Indiana University's first president Andrew Wylie, in Bloomington, IN
  • Lazard Carnegie Wylie, a boutique investment bank that advises in mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, initial public offerings and related transactions
  • Wylie Mansion, an American mansion which once stood at 10 Thomas Circle in Washington, D.C
  • Wylie School, a historic school building at Ekonk Hill Road and Wylie School Road in Voluntown, Connecticut

See also

  • Wiley (disambiguation)
  • Whiley
  • Wily (disambiguation)
  • Wylie (disambiguation)
  • Wyllie
  • Willey (disambiguation)
  • Wylye (disambiguation)
  • Wyle (disambiguation)
  • Wyly
  • Alexander Wylie (disambiguation)
  • Andrew Wylie (disambiguation)
  • John Wylie (disambiguation)
  • Wylie High School (disambiguation)
  • David Wylie (disambiguation)
  • George Wylie (disambiguation)
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