# Wylie

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Wylie
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Wylie.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wylie
> Source revision: 1344776951
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

**Wylie** is an English name meaning "well-watered meadow", and may also refer to:

## People

- [Christopher Wylie](/source/Christopher_Wylie) (born 1989), British-Canadian data consultant and whistleblower
- [Wylie (surname)](/source/Wylie_(surname))
- [Wylie (Australian explorer)](/source/Wylie_(Australian_explorer)), Aboriginal companion of Edward John Eyre during his crossing of the Nullarbor Plain in Australia
- [Wylie Breckenridge](/source/Wylie_Breckenridge) (1903–1991), rugby union player who represented Australia
- [Wylie Gelber](/source/Wylie_Gelber) (born 1988), American bassist and guitar maker, founding member of the band [Dawes](/source/Dawes_(band))
- [Wylie Gibbs](/source/Wylie_Gibbs) (1922–2026), Australian politician
- [Wylie Cameron Grant](/source/Wylie_Cameron_Grant) (1879–1968), American tennis champion
- [Wylie Human](/source/Wylie_Human) (born 1979), South African rugby union winger
- [Wylie Stateman](/source/Wylie_Stateman), American supervising sound editor
- [Wylie Sypher](/source/Wylie_Sypher) (1905–1987), American non-fiction writer and professor
- [Wylie Watson](/source/Wylie_Watson) (1889–1966), British actor
- [Wylie G. Woodruff](/source/Wylie_G._Woodruff) (1866–1930), American football player and coach

## Fictional characters

- [Wile E. Coyote](/source/Wile_E._Coyote_and_the_Road_Runner), a cartoon character whose name sounds similar to "Wily"
- [Wylie Burp](/source/Wylie_Burp), a character from the film *An American Tail: Fievel Goes West*
- Wylie Endal, a character from *[Keeper Of The Lost Cities](/source/Keeper_of_the_Lost_Cities)* by [Shannon Messenger](/source/Shannon_Messenger)

## Places

### United States

- [Lake Wylie, South Carolina](/source/Lake_Wylie,_South_Carolina)
- [Wylie Township, Minnesota](/source/Wylie_Township,_Minnesota)
- [Wylie, Texas](/source/Wylie,_Texas), a city located primarily within Collin County
- [Wylie, Taylor County, Texas](/source/Wylie,_Taylor_County,_Texas), an unincorporated community largely in the city limits of Abilene
- [Wylie Island](/source/Wylie_Island), a bar island on the New River in Summers County, West Virginia
- [Lake Wylie](/source/Lake_Wylie), a reservoir, or man-made lake in the U.S. states of both South Carolina and North Carolina

### Elsewhere

- [Wylie Bay](/source/Wylie_Bay), a bay 4 nautical miles (7 km) wide, lying between Cape Monaco and Norsel Point on the southwest coast of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula
- [Wylie Ridge](/source/Wylie_Ridge), a ridge that extends westward from Meier Peak in the Admiralty Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica
- [Wylie, Ontario](/source/Laurentian_Hills), a municipality in Eastern Ontario, Canada, on the Ottawa River in Renfrew County

## Other

- [Wylie transliteration](/source/Wylie_transliteration) for Tibetan script
- [Wylie House Museum](/source/Wylie_House_Museum) a historic house museum of Indiana University's first president Andrew Wylie, in Bloomington, IN
- [Wylie Mansion](/source/Wylie_Mansion), an American mansion which once stood at 10 Thomas Circle in Washington, D.C
- [Wylie School](/source/Wylie_School), a historic school building at Ekonk Hill Road and Wylie School Road in Voluntown, Connecticut

## See also

- [Wiley (disambiguation)](/source/Wiley_(disambiguation))
- [Whiley](/source/Whiley)
- [Wily (disambiguation)](/source/Wily_(disambiguation))
- [Wylie (disambiguation)](/source/Wylie_(disambiguation))
- [Wyllie](/source/Wyllie)
- [Willey (disambiguation)](/source/Willey_(disambiguation))
- [Wylye (disambiguation)](/source/Wylye_(disambiguation))
- [Wyle (disambiguation)](/source/Wyle_(disambiguation))
- [Wyly](/source/Wyly)
- [Alexander Wylie (disambiguation)](/source/Alexander_Wylie_(disambiguation))
- [Andrew Wylie (disambiguation)](/source/Andrew_Wylie_(disambiguation))
- [John Wylie (disambiguation)](/source/John_Wylie_(disambiguation))
- [Wylie High School (disambiguation)](/source/Wylie_High_School_(disambiguation))
- [David Wylie (disambiguation)](/source/David_Wylie_(disambiguation))
- [George Wylie (disambiguation)](/source/George_Wylie_(disambiguation))

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Wylie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wylie) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wylie?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.