Wally
Encyclopedia
People
- Wally Broecker, American geochemist
- Wally ChambersWally ChambersWallace Hashim Chambers is a former American football defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears and defensive end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 1970s...
, American football player - Wally HaywardWally HaywardWallace Henry Hayward was a South African endurance athlete with a 60 year career. He has won the Comrades Marathon five times and completed the distance of around 90 km the last time just before his eighty-first birthday.He was born and died in Johannesburg...
, South African ultra distance runner - Wally LewisWally LewisWalter James "Wally" Lewis AM is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach. Currently a commentator of the sport, he is widely regarded as the greatest rugby league player of all time...
, Australian rugby league footballer - Wally MoonWally MoonWallace Wade Moon, known popularly as Wally Moon, is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. Moon played his 12-year career in the National League for the St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers...
, American baseball player - Wally ParksWally ParksWallace Gordon Parks was instrumental in establishing drag racing as a legitimate amateur and professional motorsport. He was the Founder, President, and the Chairman of the Board of the National Hot Rod Association, better known as NHRA...
, a founder of the National Hot Rod Association - Wally PhillipsWally PhillipsWalter Phillips was an American radio personality best known for hosting WGN's morning radio show from Chicago for 21 years from January 1965 until July 1986, and was number one in the morning slot from 1968 until he left for an afternoon radio slot in 1986.Phillips was a pioneer of the radio...
, former United States radio personality - Wally PriggWally PriggWally Prigg was an Australian rugby league player. He was a lock forward for the Australian national rugby league team. He played 19 Tests for the Kangaroos between 1929–38, 7 as captain and has since been named amongst the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.-Club and representative...
, Australian rugby league footballer - Wally SchirraWally SchirraWalter Marty Schirra, Jr. was an American test pilot, United States Navy officer, and one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, America's effort to put humans in space. He is the only person to fly in all of America's first three space programs...
, an American astronaut - Wally SzczerbiakWally SzczerbiakWalter Robert "Wally" Szczerbiak is an American former professional basketball player.-Early life:Szczerbiak was born in Madrid, Spain, while his father Walter was playing for Real Madrid, and spent much of his childhood in Europe during his father's playing career...
, NBA player for the Cleveland Cavaliers
Entertainment
- Wally (band)Wally (band)Wally, led by the singer-songwriter Roy Webber, was an English progressive rock band, which originated in Harrogate, Yorkshire, in the early 1970s.-Career:...
, British prog rock band- Wally (album), a 1974 album by Wally
- La WallyLa WallyLa Wally is a four-act opera by Alfredo Catalani, composed on a libretto by Luigi Illica, and first performed at La Scala, Milan on 20 January 1892....
, an opera by Alfredo Catalani - WALL-EWALL-EWALL-E, promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E, is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future...
, also called Wally, a 2008 film about a robot of the same name by Pixar Animation Studios
Fictional characters
- Wally (Dilbert character)Wally (Dilbert character)Wally is a character from the Dilbert comic strip, a lazy employee always trying to work the system.-Inspiration:Wally was inspired by a coworker of creator Scott Adams at Pacific Bell...
, a lazy engineer from the Dilbert comic strip - Wally (Pokémon), a character from the Pokémon video game series
- Wally (Wallabies mascot)Wally (Wallabies mascot)Wally is the name of the official mascot of the Australian rugby union team - the Wallabies. As his name implies, Wally is a Wallaby. The stuffed version of the mascot is carried with the Wallabies on overseas tours to Europe. It then becomes the duty of the youngest member of the touring party to...
- Wally B. Feed, a pirate sidekick in the Monkey Island computer game series
- Wally CleaverWally CleaverWallace "Wally" Cleaver is a fictional character in the iconic American television sitcom Leave It to Beaver. Wally is the thirteen-year-old son of archetypal 50s suburban parents, Ward and June Cleaver and the older brother of the seven-year-old title character, Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver...
, the older brother played by Tony Dow on Leave it to Beaver - Wally GatorWally GatorWally Gator is one of the segments from The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series. The other segments that compose this trilogy are Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har Har and Touché Turtle and Dum Dum. The segment consisted of 52 episodes over two seasons....
, cartoon by Hanna-Barbera - Wally the Green MonsterWally the Green MonsterWally the Green Monster is the official mascot for the Boston Red Sox Major League Baseball team. His name is derived from the Green Monster nickname of the 37-foot 6-inches wall in left field at Fenway Park. Wally debuted on February 2, 1997 to the chagrin of many older Red Sox fans...
, mascot for the Boston Red Sox - Wally Sparks, the titular talk show host in Meet Wally Sparks
- Wally SquadWally SquadThe Wally Squad is a fictional undercover police force in the Judge Dredd stories of 2000 AD. Wally Squad agents were undercover judges noted for their eccentricity and borderline lunacy; these characteristic behaviours were an inevitable consequence of working undercover in a world of complete...
, undercover policemen in Judge Dredd - Wally Week, the main character of an 8-bit computer game series by Mikro-Gen
- Wally WestWally WestThe Flash is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. He is the first Kid Flash and the third Flash....
, one alter ego of The Flash in the DC Comics Universe - Wally the Weiner Dog, a dog in the comic Drabble
- a character in the Where's Wally?Where's Wally?Where's Wally?, published in the United States and Canada as Where's Waldo?, is a series of children's books created by British illustrator Martin Handford. The books consist of a series of detailed double-page spread illustrations depicting dozens or more people doing a variety of amusing things...
series of books (known as Waldo in the United States) - Water WallyWater WallyWater Wally is the name of the official Singapore Public Utilities Board mascot. Water Wally is blue in colour and shaped like a water droplet...
, mascot of the Singapore waterworks Public Utilities Board - The mascot of "Wally World" in National Lampoon's VacationNational Lampoon's VacationVacation, sometimes referred as National Lampoon's Vacation, is a 1983 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Dana Barron and Anthony Michael Hall...
- Wallace "Wally" Fitzgerald McGillicutty, the polar bear from the webcomic Wally and OsborneWally and OsborneWally and Osborne, formerly titled On the Rocks, is a humor webcomic by Tyler Martin. It was launched on July 4, 2005. The first strip is dated June 27 because Martin launched the site with a week's backlog of strips....
, formerly known as On the Rocks - Wallabee "Wally" Beatles, a fictional character from Codename: Kids Next DoorCodename: Kids Next DoorCodename: Kids Next Door, also known as Kids Next Door or by its acronym KND, is an American animated television series created by Tom Warburton and produced by Curious Pictures in Santa Monica, California.. The series debuted on Cartoon Network on December 6, 2002 and aired its final episode on...
Other
- WALLY (commuter rail)WALLY (commuter rail)WALLY is a proposed commuter rail service which would link the Michigan cities of Ann Arbor and Howell.- Proposal :...
, a proposed service in southeast Michigan - Wally (anonymous)Wally (anonymous)In 1974 a group of new age travellers were encamped near Stone Henge, to help hinder the process of eviction by the landowners they all gave their name as Wally of Wessex, "Wally being a conveniently anonymous umbrella for vulnerable individuals"...
, a name often called out at British rock venues in the nineteen seventies and early eighties - Wally YachtsWally YachtsWally Yachts is a maritime design and manufacture company based in Monte Carlo, Monaco.-Company history:Founded by wealthy Italian businessman Luca Bassani in 1994, Wally started out primarily as a sail boat design firm and have more recently branched out into designing cutting edge motor yachts,...
, a maritime design and manufacture company - The WallyThe WallyThe Wally is the trophy awarded to winners of an NHRA national event. They have been handed out at national events starting with the 1969 NHRA race season. With an antique brass plating over a standard metal mix and a solid walnut base, the "Wally" is 18 inches tall and weighs 12 pounds...
, trophy given to NHRA national event race winners