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Wally

Wally (a nickname for Walter or Wallace), can refer to:

People

Wally Broecker, American geochemist
Wally Chambers, American football player
Wally Hayward, South African ultra distance runner
Wally Lewis, Australian rugby league footballer
Wally Moon, American baseball player
Wally Parks, a founder of the National Hot Rod Association
Wally Phillips, former United States radio personality
Wally Prigg, Australian rugby league footballer
Wally Schirra, an American astronaut
Wally Szczerbiak, NBA player for the Cleveland Cavaliers

Entertainment

La Wally, an opera by Alfredo Catalani
WALL-E, a 2008 film about a robot of the same name by Pixar Animation Studios
Wally (game), a game commonly played in schools in the north of England
Wally (band), a 1970s band

Fictional characters

Wally (Dilbert character), a lazy engineer from the Dilbert comic strip
Wally (Pokémon), a character from the Pokémon video game series
Wally Cleaver, the older brother played by Tony Dow on Leave it to Beaver
Wally B. Feed, a pirate sidekick in the Monkey Island computer game series
Wallace "Wally" Fitzgerald McGillicutty, the polar bear from the webcomic Wally and Osborne, formerly known as On the Rocks
Wally Squad, undercover policemen in Judge Dredd
Wally West, 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 1980s Australian water conservation campaign called Don't be a Wally with Water
Where's Wally?, a character from a popular series of books of the same name (known as Waldo in the United States)
The mascot of Wally World in National Lampoon's Vacation
Wally Sparks, the titular talk show host in Meet Wally Sparks
Wally Week, the main character of Mikro-Gen's 8-bit computer game series Automania, Pyjamarama, Everyone's A Wally, Herbert's Dummy Run, and Three Weeks in Paradise
Wally Gator, cartoon by Hanna-Barbera
Wall-E, the hero of the film WALL*E
Wally (Wallabies mascot)

Slang

"An unfashionable person; one who is foolish, inept, or ineffectual. Also as a mild term of abuse". (Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition 1989)
British colloquial term for a gherkin

Transportation

WALLY, a proposed commuter rail service in southeast Michigan.

Other

Wally (anonymous), a name often called out at British rock venues in the nineteen seventies and early eighties
Wally Class, a sailboat classification.
Wallyboard, a make of bodyboard
Wally Division, a sailboat racing classification.
Wally the Green Monster, mascot for the Boston Red Sox.
USNS Wally Schirra (T-AKE-8), a U.S. Navy ship
Wally Yachts, a maritime design and manufacture company
Water Wally, mascot of the Singapore waterworks Public Utilities Board

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "Wally" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German, Portuguese.

Translation in Japanese: ウォーリー.


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