Wanderer
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Wanderer, Wanderers, or The Wanderer may refer to:
  • Itinerant
    Itinerant
    An itinerant is a person who travels from place to place with no fixed home. The term comes from the late 16th century: from late Latin itinerant , from the verb itinerari, from Latin iter, itiner ....

     people, who wander from place to place with no permanent home, or are vagrant
    Vagrancy (people)
    A vagrant is a person in poverty, who wanders from place to place without a home or regular employment or income.-Definition:A vagrant is "a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging;" vagrancy is the condition of such persons.-History:In...

  • Wanderer (AROS), the file browser component of the AROS operating system
  • Wanderer butterflies, certain wide-ranging brush-footed butterflies:
    • Bematistes aganice
      Bematistes aganice
      The Wanderer is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in southern and south-eastern Africa.The wingspan is 60–65 mm for males and 70–75 mm for females...

      , a species of tropical Africa
    • Danaus plexippus (Monarch), a species of the Americas
    • Pareronia
      Pareronia
      Pareronia is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae within the family Pieridae.-Species:*Pareronia argolis *Pareronia avatar *Pareronia aviena Fruhstorfer, 1910...

      , a genus of tropical Asia
  • Wanderer (car)
    Wanderer (car)
    Wanderer was a German manufacturer of bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, vans and other machinery. Established as Winklhofer & Jaenicke in 1896, the company used the Wanderer brand name from 1911, making civilian automobiles until 1941 and military vehicles until 1945.-History:Winklhofer &...

    , a German automobile manufacturer in the interwar period
  • The Wanderer, an alternate name for the Wandering Jew
    Wandering Jew
    The Wandering Jew is a figure from medieval Christian folklore whose legend began to spread in Europe in the 13th century. The original legend concerns a Jew who taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion and was then cursed to walk the earth until the Second Coming...

  • The Wanderer (newspaper)
    The Wanderer (newspaper)
    The Wanderer is a lay Roman Catholic weekly newspaper published in St. Paul, Minnesota and distributed to a national market. It was founded by Joseph Matt on 7 October 1867...

    , a Catholic national weekly based in Minnesota
  • The Wanderer (Massachusetts newspaper)
    The Wanderer (Massachusetts newspaper)
    "The Wanderer" is a weekly newspaper that serves the Tri-town area of Marion, Massachusetts, Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, and Rochester, Massachusetts in southeastern Massachusetts. The Wanderer is published by Wanderer Com Inc...

    , a weekly newspaper distributed in southeastern Massachusetts

In literature

  • The Wanderer (poem)
    The Wanderer (poem)
    The Wanderer is an Old English poem preserved only in an anthology known as the Exeter Book, a manuscript dating from the late 10th century. It counts 115 lines of alliterative verse...

    , an Old English poem
  • Le Grand Meaulnes
    Le Grand Meaulnes
    Le Grand Meaulnes is the only novel by French author Alain-Fournier. Fifteen-year-old François Seurel narrates the story of his relationship with seventeen-year-old Augustin Meaulnes as Meaulnes searches for his lost love. Impulsive, reckless and heroic, Meaulnes embodies the romantic ideal, the...

    (also known as The Wanderer), a 1913 novel by Alain-Fournier
  • The Wanderer (1814 novel), a novel by Frances Burney, titled The Wanderer: Or, Female Difficulties
  • The Wanderer (1930 novel), a novel by John Mansfield about the slave ship the Wanderer
  • The Wanderer (1953 novel)
    The Wanderer (1953 novel)
    The Wanderer is the fourth book in the Punchbowl Farm series of novels by Monica Edwards, published in 1953 by Collins. The book was illustrated by Joan Wanklyn. The Wanderer’s plot describes how the colt Chalice continually escapes from the farm taking with him the heifers Midnight and Whinberry...

    , a children's novel by Monica Edwards
  • The Wanderers (novel)
    The Wanderers (novel)
    The Wanderers is a novel by Ingrid Rimland published in 1977 loosely based upon her own experiences from growing up in a Mennonite community in the Ukraine. Rimland wanted to write a novel about her people, and The Wanderers tells the story of the plight of Mennonite women caught in the social...

    , a 1977 novel by Ingrid Rimland
  • Wanderer, an autobiography by Sterling Hayden
    Sterling Hayden
    Sterling Hayden was an American actor and author. For most of his career as a leading man, he specialized in westerns and film noir, such as Johnny Guitar, The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing. Later on he became noted as a character actor for such roles as Gen. Jack D. Ripper in Dr...

  • Wanderer (novel)
    Wanderer (novel)
    Wanderer is a science fiction novel written by Dennis Schmidt published in 1985. It is the fourth and final part in the Kensho series of novels....

    , a 1985 science fiction novel by Dennis Schmidt
  • The Wanderer (Waltari novel), a 1949 novel by Mika Waltari
  • The Wanderer (Fritz Leiber novel)
    The Wanderer (Fritz Leiber novel)
    The Wanderer is the title of a science fiction novel by Fritz Leiber about a wandering planet that enters the solar system...

  • Wanderers (Knut Hamsun novel), a novel by Knut Hamsun
    Knut Hamsun
    Knut Hamsun was a Norwegian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. He was praised by King Haakon VII of Norway as Norway's soul....

     (combining Under the Autumn Star and A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings)
  • The Wanderers (Richard Price novel), a 1974 novel by Richard Price
    Richard Price (writer)
    Richard Price is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books The Wanderers and Clockers.-Early life:...

  • The Wanderer (Sharon Creech novel)
    The Wanderer (Sharon Creech novel)
    The Wanderer is a children's novel by Sharon Creech, published in 2000. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and named a Newbery Honor book. It is about a 13 year old orphan named Sophie who is the only girl amongst a crew of men on a journey to find her destiny in the sea and with her...

    , a 2000 novel by Sharon Creech
  • Wanderers (comics)
    Wanderers (comics)
    The Wanderers are a fictional group of superheroes appearing in comics published by DC Comics. They first appeared as allies of the Legion of Super-Heroes in Adventure Comics #375 written by Jim Shooter, illustrated by Win Mortimer with a cover by Neal Adams...

    , a DC Comics publication
  • The Wanderer (manga), by Narumi Kakinouchi
    Narumi Kakinouchi
    is a female Japanese manga artist, animator, director, character designer, and an animation director. Some of her work has appeared in the adult manga magazine Lemon People....

  • Wanderers (Noon Universe)
    Wanderers (Noon Universe)
    Wanderers are a fictional alien race from the Noon Universe created by Strugatsky brothers. Their homeworld is unknown. No official contact between Earth and Wanderers has ever been registered, although they've contacted humans from other planets, e.g...

    , a fictional non-humanoid alien race created by Strugatsky brothers
  • "The Wanderer", a 1726 poem by Richard Savage
    Richard Savage
    Richard Savage was an English poet. He is best known as the subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage , on which is based one of the most elaborate of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets....

  • "The Wanderer", a 1921 poem by Henry Lane Eno
    Henry Lane Eno
    Henry Lane Eno was born in New York City on July 8, 1871; he died at Montacute House, Somerset, on September 28, 1928. A member of the Eno real estate and banking family, he was the son of Henry Clay Eno and his wife Cornelia, the daughter of George W...


In music

  • "The Wanderer" (Dion song)
    The Wanderer (Dion song)
    "The Wanderer" is a song written by Ernie Maresca and originally recorded by Dion. The song, with a 12-bar blues-base verse and an eight-bar bridge, tells the story of a travelling man and his many loves...

    ,a 1961 song by Dion covered by many other artists
  • "The Wanderer", song by Emperor from their 1997 album Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
    Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
    Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk is the second full-length album by Norwegian symphonic black metal band Emperor. It was released in 1997 . The album was recorded in the Grieg Hall in Bergen, Norway...

  • The Wanderer (Donna Summer album), a Donna Summer album from 1980
  • "The Wanderer" (Donna Summer song)
    The Wanderer (Donna Summer song)
    "The Wanderer" is a song by American singer Donna Summer. Summer made her name as the queen of the disco genre during the 1970s while signed to Casablanca Records. She left the label in 1980 following a dispute and became the first ever artist to be signed to the new Geffen label...

    ,a 1980 song by Donna Summer
  • "The Wanderer" (U2 song),a 1993 song by the band U2 with lead vocals by singer Johnny Cash
  • The Wanderer (O.A.R. album)
    The Wanderer (O.A.R. album)
    The Wanderer is an album released in 1997 by O.A.R. The album was recorded at Gizmo Recording Company in Silver Spring, Maryland with engineer/producer Gantt Kushner while the band was still in high school, and without a record label. Online distribution helped make the album popular on college...

    , 1997
  • The Wanderer (Holy Blood album)
    The Wanderer (Holy Blood album)
    The Wanderer is the debut album by the Ukrainian folk metal band Holy Blood, self-released in 2002, re-released in 2005 through Bombworks Records...

    , 2002
  • "The Wanderer" or "Po dikim stepyam Zabaikalya
    Po dikim stepyam Zabaikalya
    Po dikim stepyam Zabaikalya translated Along the wild steppes of Transbaikalia is a Russian folk song. The song is also known as Brodyaga - The wanderer. It was composed by convicts in Siberia, but at the beginning of the 20 century it was published and recorded...

    ", a Russian folk song
  • Der Wanderer
    Der Wanderer
    Der Wanderer is the name of a Lied composed by Franz Schubert in October 1816 for voice and piano. A revised version was published near the end of May 1821 as opus 4, number 1. The words are taken from a German poem by Georg Philipp Schmidt...

    , a 1816 song by Franz Schubert
  • The Wanderer, a piece for a cappella voices by Ezequiel Viñao
    Ezequiel Viñao
    Ezequiel Viñao is an Argentine-American composer. He emigrated to the United States in 1980 and studied at the Juilliard School...

  • "Wanderer", song by the band Ensiferum
    Ensiferum
    Ensiferum is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki. The members of the band label themselves as "heroic folk metal." Since their formation, Ensiferum has released four full-length albums, one EP, one compilation, three singles, and three demo albums and one unreleased album.-Musical...

  • "The Wanderer", song by Karunesh
    Karunesh
    Karunesh is a German-born New Age and ambient musician. His music has strong Asian and Indian influences prevalent throughout, with liberal use of Indian instruments, such as the sitar. Having sold 450,000 albums, Karunesh is one of the best-known New Age artists.Karunesh was born in Cologne,...

  • The Wanderers (band), 1980s punk band established by Stiv Bators
    Stiv Bators
    Stiv Bators , was an American punk rockvocalist and guitarist from Youngstown, Ohio. He is best remembered for his bands, The Dead Boys and The Lords of the New Church.- Music and film career :...

  • The Wanderer, a 1988 album by Kevin Rowland
    Kevin Rowland
    Kevin Rowland is an English singer-songwriter and former frontman for the pop band Dexys Midnight Runners, which had several hits in the early 1980s, the most notable being "Geno" and "Come On Eileen".-Career:...

  • The Wanderer, the god Wotan in Wagner's Siegfried
    Siegfried (opera)
    Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen , by Richard Wagner. It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of The Ring...


In film and television

  • The Wanderer (1913 film)
    The Wanderer (1913 film)
    The Wanderer is a 1913 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith.-Cast:* Henry B. Walthall - The Wanderer* Charles Hill Mailes - The Father* Christy Cabanne - The Brother* Kate Bruce - The Old Woman* Lionel Barrymore - The Male Lover...

    , silent film
  • The Wanderer (1925 film), silent film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Greta Nissen
    Greta Nissen
    Greta Nissen was a Norwegian-born American film and stage actress.-Stage and Screen Actress:Born Grethe Rüzt-Nissen in Oslo, Norway, Nissen was originally a dancer. She debuted as a solo ballerina on the National Theatre in 1922. She toured in Norway and participated in several Danish films.Nissen...

  • The Wanderers (1979 film)
    The Wanderers (1979 film)
    The Wanderers is a 1979 greaser film based on the novel by Richard Price .-Overview:...

    , film directed by Philip Kaufman
  • "The Wanderer", the sailboat in the film Captain Ron
    Captain Ron
    Captain Ron is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Thom Eberhardt, produced by David Permut, and written by John Dwyer for Touchstone Pictures. It stars Kurt Russell as the title character, a sailor with a quirky personality and a checkered past, and Martin Short as a middle-class family man...

  • The Wanderer (1994 TV series)
    The Wanderer (1994 TV series)
    The Wanderer is a television series first broadcast 1994 comprising 13 episodes.Every episode brings a new adventure, and the story of long-ago brothers Adam and Zachary, Princess Beatrice, and Lady Clare slowly unfolds as Adam searches for Zachary's grave, a magic stone, and a lost book of...

  • The Wanderer in Bulgar
    The Wanderer in Bulgar
    The Wanderer in Bulgar aka The Minstrel in Bulgar is a 30 minutes Tatar rock opera written and directed by Vladislav Chebitarev, music by Räşid Kalimullin based on İldar Yüziev's libretto for classical opera Cuckoo's Cry...

    , a rock opera film, performed in Tatar
  • The Wanderer (Doctor Who audio)
    The Wanderer (Doctor Who audio)
    The Wanderer is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. In it, William Russell reprises his role as Ian Chesterton from the television series....


In visual arts

  • Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
    Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
    Wanderer above the Sea of Fog is an oil painting composed in 1818 by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. It currently resides in the Kunsthalle Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany.-Description:...

    , a painting by Caspar David Friedrich
  • Peredvizhniki
    Peredvizhniki
    Peredvizhniki , often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who in protest at academic restrictions formed an artists' cooperative; it evolved into the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions in 1870.- History :In 1863 a group of fourteen students...

     (The Wanderers), a group of Russian artists

In sports

  • Old Wanderers
    Old Wanderers
    Old Wanderers was a cricket ground in Johannesburg, South Africa. The ground hosted 22 Test matches from 1895 to 1939, before being rebuilt as Johannesburg's Park Station in 1946...

    , a cricket ground in Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Wanderers Stadium
    Wanderers Stadium
    BIDVest Wanderers Stadium is a stadium situated just south of Sandton in Illovo, Johannesburg in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Test, One Day and First class cricket matches are played here. It is also the home ground for the Highveld Lions, formerly known as Gauteng .The stadium has a seating...

    , a cricket ground in Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Wanderers F.C.
    Wanderers F.C.
    Wanderers Football Club is an English amateur football club, based in London, that plays in the Surrey South Eastern Combination. Founded as Forest Football Club in 1859, the club changed its name to Wanderers in 1864....

    , a former English football club, the first winners of the FA Cup
Wanderers' name is also used as the second part of the name of various other teams, including:
  • Arsenal Wanderers
    Arsenal Wanderers
    Arsenal Wanderers is a Mauritian football club based in Arsenal village. They play in the second division in Mauritian football. Their home stadium is Stade Anjalay....

  • Bolton Wanderers F.C.
    Bolton Wanderers F.C.
    Bolton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the area of Horwich in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester. They began their current spell in the Premier League in 2001....

  • Bray Wanderers A.F.C.
    Bray Wanderers A.F.C.
    Bray Wanderers A.F.C. are an Irish football club playing in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland. The club, founded in 1942 and elected to the League in 1985, hails from Bray and play their home matches at the Carlisle Grounds. Club colours are Green and White, and it goes by the nickname...

  • Burton Park Wanderers F.C.
    Burton Park Wanderers F.C.
    Burton Park Wanderers F.C. is a football club based in Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire, England. They joined the United Counties League in 1968. In the 1974–75 season, they reached the 2nd round of the FA Vase. They are currently members of the United Counties League Division One....

  • Cray Wanderers F.C.
    Cray Wanderers F.C.
    Cray Wanderers F.C. is an English semi-professional football club based in Bromley, London. It is one of the oldest football clubs in the world. The club was established in 1860 in the twin villages of St. Mary Cray and St Paul's Cray, near Orpington, then in the county of Kent.They currently play...

  • Montevideo Wanderers F.C.
    Montevideo Wanderers F.C.
    Montevideo Wanderers Fútbol Club, usually known simply as Wanderers is a Uruguayan football club based in Montevideo. The club are currently members of the Primera División and play at the Estadio Viera...

  • Montreal Wanderers
    Montreal Wanderers
    The Montreal Wanderers were a Canadian amateur, and later becoming a professional men's ice hockey team. The team played in the Federal Amateur Hockey League , the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association , the National Hockey Association and briefly the National Hockey League . The Wanderers are...

    , a National Hockey League team of the early 20th century
  • Santiago Wanderers
  • Sliema Wanderers F.C.
    Sliema Wanderers F.C.
    Sliema Wanderers Football Club are a Maltese football team from the town of Sliema, which currently plays in the Maltese Premier League.-History:The club was founded in 1909...

  • S.K. Victoria Wanderers F.C.
    S.K. Victoria Wanderers F.C.
    S.K. Victoria Wanderers Football Club is a Maltese football club from the town of Victoria, Gozo. They were founded in 1958 and throughout the clubs history, they have won the Gozitan League championship once, as Victoria United during the 1978-79 season....

  • Shropshire Wanderers F.C.
    Shropshire Wanderers F.C.
    Shropshire Wanderers F.C. were an amateur association football club based in Shrewsbury, England. They were active during the 1870s.They entered the FA Cup competition in each of the years from 1873-74 to 1877-78. Their greatest success came in 1874-75, when they reached the Semi-finals where they...

  • Woolpack Wanderers F.C.
  • Wycombe Wanderers F.C.
    Wycombe Wanderers F.C.
    Wycombe Wanderers Football Club is an English professional football team from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, which has been promoted to Football League One after finishing third in Football League Two in the season 2010–11. The club's nicknames are "The Chairboys" and "The Blues", and they play...

  • Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
    Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
    Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club that represents the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands region. They are members of the Premier League, the highest level of English football. The club was founded in 1877 and since 1889 has played at...


In ships

  • The Wanderer (slave ship)
    The Wanderer (slave ship)
    The Wanderer is the last documented ship to bring a cargo of slaves from Africa to the United States . Stories of subsequent mass landings of slaves have been told, but are in dispute...

    , a ship involved in the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade in the 1850s
  • Wanderer (sailing dinghy)
    Wanderer (sailing dinghy)
    The Wanderer is a 14 foot Fiberglass hull Bermuda rigged sailing dinghy designed by Ian Proctor. One of the main objectives of the design was to produce a robust safe and versatile dinghy that could be used for knockabout day sailing and cruising as well as racing, but was light enough to be...

    , a 14-foot sailing dinghy designed by Ian Proctor
  • Wanderer (whaler), a whaler hunting ship that caught up to 24 whales in the waters of the Azores between 1878 and 1924
  • Wanderer, a 16-foot Wayfarer dinghy sailed by travelogue writer Frank Dye
    Frank Dye
    Frank Dye was a sailor who, in two separate voyages, sailed a Wayfarer class dinghy from the United Kingdom to Iceland and Norway. An account of this was written by Frank and his wife Margaret, published in 1977 as Ocean Crossing Wayfarer...

  • Wanderer, schooner sailed by Benjamin Boyd
    Benjamin Boyd
    Benjamin Boyd was a Scottish-born Australian pioneer and entrepreneur.Boyd was a man of "an imposing personal appearance, fluent oratory, aristocratic connexions, and a fair share of commercial acuteness". Mrs Georgiana McCrae, with whom he had dinner when he first came to Port Phillip, looked at...

     (1796–1851), a Scottish-Australian explorer
  • HMS Wanderer, a British destroyer of World War II vintage
  • USS Wanderer
    USS Wanderer
    USS Wanderer is a name used more than once by the United States Navy:* USS Wanderer , a schooner and former slave trader seized by the Navy and in service from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War....

    , the name of several United States Navy ships
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