Wylie
# Wylie

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

## People

* Wylie (surname)
* Wylie (Australian explorer), Aboriginal companion of Edward John Eyre during his crossing of the Nullarbor Plain in Australia
* Wylie Breckenridge (1903–1991), rugby union player who represented Australia
* Wylie Gelber (born 1988), American bassist and guitar maker, founding member of the band Dawes
* Wylie Gibbs (born 1922), Australian politician
* Wylie Cameron Grant (1879–1968), American tennis champion
* Wylie Human (born 1979), South African rugby union winger
* Wylie Stateman, American supervising sound editor
* Wylie Sypher (1905–1987), American non-fiction writer and professor
* Wylie Watson (1889–1966), British actor
* Wylie G. Woodruff (1866–1930), American football player and coach

## Fictional characters

* Wile E. Coyote, a cartoon character whose name sounds similar to "Wily"
* Wylie Burp, a character from the film An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
* Wylie Endal, a character from Keeper Of The Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger

## Places

### United States

* Lake Wylie, South Carolina
* Wylie Township, Minnesota
* Wylie, Texas, a city located primarily within Collin County
* Wylie, Taylor County, Texas, an unincorporated community largely in the city limits of Abilene
* Wylie Island, a bar island on the New River in Summers County, West Virginia
* Lake Wylie, a reservoir, or man-made lake in the U.S. states of both South Carolina and North Carolina

### Elsewhere

* 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, a ridge that extends westward from Meier Peak in the Admiralty Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica
* Wylie, Ontario, a municipality in Eastern Ontario, Canada, on the Ottawa River in Renfrew County

## Other

* Wylie transliteration for Tibetan script
* Wylie House Museum a historic house museum of Indiana University's first president Andrew Wylie, in Bloomington, IN
* Lazard Carnegie Wylie, a boutique investment bank that advises in mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, initial public offerings and related transactions
* Wylie Mansion, an American mansion which once stood at 10 Thomas Circle in Washington, D.C
* Wylie School, a historic school building at Ekonk Hill Road and Wylie School Road in Voluntown, Connecticut
