Wheeler

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Wheeler may refer to

A person:

• Alwyne Wheeler, an ichthyologist after whom the Society for the History of Natural History named their annual Alwyne Wheeler Bursary
• David John Wheeler, a computer scientist who together with Michael Burrows invented the Burrows-Wheeler transform
• John Archibald Wheeler, an American physicist who coined the term black hole
• John Wheeler, an actor
• Mortimer Wheeler, a British archaelogist famous for his work regarding the Indus Valley Civilization.
• William Wheeler, a coal miner
• William "Bill" Wheeler, an artist in Sonoma County, California
• William Morton Wheeler, American myrmecologist to whom Horace Donisthorpe dedicated his first major work on ants

A fictional character:

• Wheeler (Captain Planet character) in Captain Planet and the Planeteers
• Wheeler in science fiction author Eric Nylund's novel, Signal to Noise
• Joey Wheeler or Serenity Wheeler, the English anime names of Katsuya Jonouchi and Shizuka Kawai of Yu-Gi-Oh!
• Rick Wheeler, a.k.a. Ryu Suzaku, in F-Zero: GP Legend
• Wheeler, the red truck in the cartoon I-Spy

A town in the USA:

• Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii
• Wheeler, Illinois
• Wheeler, New York
• Wheeler, Oregon
• Wheeler, Texas
• Wheeler, Wisconsin

A county in the USA:

• Wheeler County, Georgia
• Wheeler County, Nebraska
• Wheeler County, Texas

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