Wagner (disambiguation)
Encyclopedia
Given name
- Wagner Pereira CardozoWagner Pereira CardozoSee Amaral for other Brazilian football players named him.Wagner Pereira Cardozo, best known as Amaral is a former Brazilian football striker who currently coaches Japanese football club FC Kariya...
(born 1966), Brazilian football player and coach - Wagner DinizWagner Diniz Gomes de AraújoWagner Diniz Gomes de Araújo or simply Wagner Diniz , is a Brazilian right back, he currently plays for Atlético Paranaense, on loan from São Paulo.-External links:...
(born 1983), Brazilian football player - Wagner Ferreira dos SantosWagner Ferreira dos SantosWágner Ferreira dos Santos , commonly known as Wágner, is a Brazilian football player. He currently plays for Turkish Super League outfit Gaziantepspor.-Club career:...
(born 1985), Brazilian football player - Wagner Günter P.Günter P. WagnerGünter P. Wagner is Alison Richard Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary biology at Yale University, and head of the Wagner Lab.-Education and training:...
(born 1954), Austrian biologist - Wagner LamounierWagner LamounierWagner Moura Lamounier is a Brazilian economist and musician who achieved fame for having been a former vocalist of Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura, and for having created and led the extreme metal band Sarcófago from 1985 until it disbanded in 2000....
, Brazilian singer - Wagner LopesWagner LopesWagner Lopes is a former Japanese footballer. The striker was born in Brazil, and is a naturalised Japanese citizen....
(born 1969), Japanese football player - Wagner MouraWagner MouraWagner Maniçoba Moura is a Brazilian film, television and stage actor. Moura graduated in journalism at Universidade Federal da Bahia but decided to become an actor....
(born 1976), Brazilian actor - Wagner Otto KolomanOtto WagnerOtto Koloman Wagner was an Austrian architect and urban planner, known for his lasting impact on the appearance of his home town Vienna, to which he contributed many landmarks.-Life:...
, (1841-1918) Austrian architect - Wagner RichardRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
, (1813-1883) German composer - Wagner Santos Lago (born 1978), Brazilian football player
- Wagner TisoWagner TisoWagner Tiso Veiga is a musician, arranger, conductor, pianist and composer from Brazil.-Biography:Tiso learned music theory with Paulo Moura and specialised in keyboards. In 1970, he joined Som Imaginário, working with Milton Nascimento. Tiso and Nascimento were then together in Clube da Esquina,...
(born 1945), Brazilian musician - Wagner WolfgangWolfgang WagnerWolfgang Wagner was a German opera director. He is best known as the director of the Bayreuth Festival, a position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951 until the latter's death in 1966...
(1919-2010) German opera director - Wagner WolfgangWolfgang Wagner (social psychologist)Wolfgang Wagner is an Austrian social psychologist, currently professor at the Department of Social and Economic Psychology at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, and affiliated with the Department of Social Psychology and Methodology at the University of San Sebastián,...
, Austrian social psychologist - Vágner LoveVagner LoveVágner Silva de Souza , commonly known as Vágner Love, is a Brazilian football striker who plays for CSKA Moscow.-Palmeiras:...
(born 1984), Brazilian football player - Wagner (singer), full name Wagner Fiuza-Carrilho, Brazilian singer and participant in The X Factor
Places
Canada- Wagner, AlbertaWagner, AlbertaWagner is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada within the Municipal District of Lesser Slave River No. 124. It is located north of Highway 2, approximately northwest of Edmonton.- References :...
United States
- Wagner Township, Clayton County, IowaWagner Township, Clayton County, IowaWagner Township is a township in Clayton County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 441.-Geography:Wagner Township covers an area of and contains one incorporated settlement, St. Olaf...
- Wagner Township, Aitkin County, Minnesota
- Wagner, MontanaWagner, MontanaWagner is a small, unincorporated village in Phillips County, Montana, USA. The town lies along the Hi-Line of the Great Northern Railway....
- Wagner, South DakotaWagner, South DakotaWagner is a city in Charles Mix County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 1,566 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Wagner is located at ....
- Wagner, WisconsinWagner, WisconsinWagner is a town in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 722 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Goll, McAllister, Packard, and Wagner are located in the town.-Geography:...
, a town - Wagner (community), WisconsinWagner (community), WisconsinWagner is an unincorporated community located in the town of Wagner, Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. Wagner is east-southeast of Wausaukee....
, an unincorporated community
Astronomy
- Wagner (crater), Bach quadrangleBach quadrangleThe Bach quadrangle encompasses the south polar part of Mercury poleward of latitude 65° S.-Mariner 10 photography:About half of the region was beyond the terminator during the three Mariner 10 encounters and hence not visible...
, planet MercuryMercury (planet)Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 Earth days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three rotations about its axis for every two orbits...
Fiction
- Wagner (mini-series)Wagner (mini-series)Wagner is a 1983 film on the life of Richard Wagner. The title role was played by Richard Burton, who said it was the role he was born to play...
, 1983 television series about Richard Wagner - Wagner, fictional character in Marlowe's play Doctor FaustusThe Tragical History of Doctor FaustusThe Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge...
, Goethe's FaustGoethe's FaustJohann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play in two parts: and . Although written as a closet drama, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages...
and Gounod's opera FaustFaust (opera)Faust is a drame lyrique in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part 1... - Wagner, a pig in the Finnish comic strip Viivi & WagnerViivi & WagnerViivi & Wagner is a somewhat absurdist Finnish newspaper comic strip drawn by Jussi "Juba" Tuomola.The titular main characters are Viivi, a Finnish woman in her twenties, and Wagner, a mature male pig. Wagner is fully anthropomorphic and sentient, yet still considers himself a pig instead of a human...
- Wagner, a dragon in the video game Odin SphereOdin Sphereis a 2D fantasy action RPG video game. Developed by Vanillaware and localized and published by Atlus for the PlayStation 2 in 2007, it tells the interlocking stories of five different protagonists. Odin Sphere is considered a spiritual successor to an Atlus game titled Princess Crown and takes some...
- Wagner, a shaman in the video game Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi
- Kurt Wagner a.k.a. NightcrawlerNightcrawler (comics)Nightcrawler is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the Marvel Universe. He has been associated with both the X-Men and Excalibur, originally appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum, he debuted in Giant-Size X-Men #1...
, a character in the Marvel universe
Other uses
- Wagner ActNational Labor Relations ActThe National Labor Relations Act or Wagner Act , is a 1935 United States federal law that limits the means with which employers may react to workers in the private sector who create labor unions , engage in collective bargaining, and take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in...
, common name for the National Labor Relations Act, a 1935 U.S. labor law - Wagner CollegeWagner CollegeWagner College is a private, co-educational, national liberal arts college with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 total students located atop Grymes Hill in New York City's borough of Staten Island...
, private liberal arts college on Staten Island, New York City - Wagner Graduate School of Public ServiceWagner Graduate School of Public ServiceThe Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service is a public policy school that offers a comprehensive curriculum in public and nonprofit policy and management. It is one of 14 schools and divisions at New York University and is the largest school of public service in the United States...
, New York University - Wagner or Wagnerware, brand of cast iron cookwareCast iron cookwareCast iron is used for cookware because it has excellent heat retention properties and can be produced and formed with a relatively low level of technology. Seasoning is used to protect bare cast iron from rust and to create a non-stick surface.-History:...
- Wagnerian rockWagnerian rockWagnerian rock is a musical term which likely originated with Jim Steinman, who is quoted as using the phrase in the liner notes of the Meat Loaf album, Rock 'N Roll Hero. The phrase is assumed to be inspired by Steinman's love for the music of Richard Wagner and Phil Spector...
, a rock opera genre named after the composer Richard Wagner - Wagner's diseaseWagner's diseaseWagner's disease is a familial eye disease of the connective tissue in the eye that can cause reduced visual acuity. Wagner's disease was originally described in 1938. This disorder was frequently confused with Stickler syndrome, but lacks the systemic features and high incidence of retinal...
, familial eye disease of the connective tissue in the eye that causes blindness - Wagner's lawWagner's LawWagner's law, also known as the law of increasing state spending, is a principle named after the German economist Adolph Wagner . The law predicts that the development of an industrial economy will be accompanied by an increased share of public expenditure in gross national product:Wagner's law...
, an economic theory of development - USS Wagner (DE-539)USS Wagner (DE-539)USS Wagner was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. The primary purpose of the destroyer escort was to escort and protect ships in convoy, in addition to other tasks as assigned, such as patrol or radar picket.Wagner was laid down on 8 November...
, American warship - 3992 Wagner3992 Wagner3992 Wagner is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1987, by Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg. It is named after German composer Richard Wagner.- External links :*...
, a main-belt asteroid