Wanda

Wanda (WAHN-da (English), VAHN-dah (Polish)) is a Polish female forename, probably created by Wincenty Kadłubek. The name was introduced to the English-speaking world by Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée), who used it for the heroine of her novel Wanda (1883). It may also refer to:

Foreign forms

• English language – Wendela, Wanda
• Czech language – Vanda
• German language – Wanda
• Spanish language – Vanda
• Portuguese language - Vanda
• French language – Wanda, Vanda
• Magyar language – Vanda
• Latin language – Wanda, Vanda
• Italian language –
  • Unisex: Vanda, Wandina, Vandina
  • Masculine: Wando, Vando, Vandino
• Russian language – Vanda
• Western Kenya and Eastern Uganda, Wanda, Wandalanda, Wandera
• Japanese Language, Wanda meaning Wonder

People

• Saint Wando Abbot (San Wando Abate)
• Wanda Bacewicz (ca. 1911)
• Jenny Wanda Barkmann
• Wanda Blonska-Wolfarth (ca. 1934)
• Wanda Bobrowska-Nowak (ca. 1925), psycholog
• Wanda Brunner
• Wanda Budohoska (ca. 1920)
• Wanda Chodkowska (1905-1944)
• Wanda Chotomska (ca. 1929)
• Wanda Dabrowska (1884-1974), bibliotechist
• Wanda Dobaczewska (1892-1980)
• Wanda Gertz (1896-1958)
• Wanda Golkowska (ca. 1925)
• Wanda Guenette (born 1962), Canadian volleyball player
• Wanda Jackson (ca. 1937)
• Wanda Jakubowska (1907-1998)
• Wanda Klaff (1922-1946)
• Wanda Kwietniewska (ca. 1957)
• Wanda Leyko (ca. 1921), radiobiolog
• Wanda Luczycka (1907-1996)
• Wanda Lyzwinska (ca. 1953)
• Wanda Landowska (1877-1959)
• Wanda Macedonska-Zalewska (ca. 1929)
• Wanda Majer (ca. 1932)
• Wanda Malecka (1800-1860)
• Wanda Marasco
• Wanda Moszczenska (1896-1974)
• Wanda Neumann (ca. 1945)
• Wanda Opechowska (1888-1955)
• Wanda Osiris
• Wanda Paklikowska-Winnicka (ca. 1914)
• Wanda Panfil-Gonzales (ca. 1959)
• Wanda Perry-Josephs, an American gospel music singer
• Wanda Piłsudska
• Wanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos
• Wanda Rewienska (1897-1942)
• Wanda Rijo (b. 1979), Dominican Republic weightlifter
• Wanda Rolbieska (1876-1952)
• Wanda Rutkiewicz, a Polish mountain climber, the first woman to climb K2
• Wanda Rutkiewicz-Blaszkiewicz (1943-1992)
• Wanda Siemaszkowa (1867-1947)
• Wanda Stanislawska-Lothe (ca. 1910)
• Wanda Szuman (1890-1994)
• Wanda Sykes, an American comedian
• Wanda Tinasky (pseudonym)
• Wanda Truszkowska (1917-2004), botanist, phitopatholog
• Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski
• Wanda Warska (ca. 1932)
• Wanda Wasilewska (1905-1964)
• Wanda Werminska (1900-1988)
• Wanda Wiłkomirska (b. 1929)
• Wanda Wilson, an American actress
• Wanda Zielenczyk (1920-1943)
• Wanda Zmarzer (ca. 1941), philolog
• Wanda Zolkiewska (1909-1989)
• Ronald Elly Wanda, political writer
• Halasz Vanda

Geography

• Wanda, Minnesota, in the US
• Wanda, Misiones, in Argentina
• Wanda, Missouri, in the US
• Wanda Township, Nebraska
• Wanda Beach in Sydney New South Wales, Australia
• Wanda (ethnic group), a people in Tanzania
• Wanda, Burkina Faso

Culture

• Princess Wanda, a legendary princess in Polish legends
• Wanda, the fifth of Antonín Dvořák's 11 operas, based on a Polish legend
• Wanda (magazine), a weekly literature magazine in Warsaw
• Wanda (film), a 1971 American film
• A Fish Called Wanda, a 1988 British film

Songs about Wanda

• Handa Wanda by The Wild Magnolias (1970)

Fictional characters

• Cosmo and Wanda, cartoon characters from The Fairly OddParents
• Wanda, the main controllable character in Mario & Wario
• Vanda, the bad queen of the planet Vandalusia in the animated series Sport Billy
• Wanda Maximoff, identity of the X-Men character Scarlet Witch
• Wanda Li, a character in The Magic School Bus educational series
• Wayne and Wanda, a singing duo on The Muppet Show
• Wanda Dollard, a character on the Canadian TV show Corner Gas
• Wanda Firebaugh, a character from the webcomic Erfworld
• Wanda Seldon, in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
• Wanda, a popular name in BDSM circles and name of the main figure in Sacher-Masochs novel Venus in Fur
• Wanda, a key character from the Todd McFarlene's Spawn series, she is the widowed wife to Al Simmons (Spawn)
• Wanda, Wilhelmina Slater's actual name
• 'Wanda' is the human name given to the principal character in The Host (novel)
• Wanda Von Kreesus, the main character in the adult comic strip Wicked Wanda
• Wanda, the main character in the video game "Shadow Of The Colossus"

Other

• 1057 Wanda, an asteroid

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