Wendell Berry - American novelist, poet, essayist and farmer

Wendell Johnson - psychologist and author

Wendell, Massachusetts, USA

Wendell, North Carolina, USA

Wendell, Minnesota, USA

Wendell H. Murphy - North Carolina politician

Krissy Wendell - American ice hockey player

Wendell, Idaho, USA

Wendell Anderson - Minnesota, USA politician

Wendell H. Ford - Kentucky, USA politician

Wendell Cushing Neville - Commandant of the United States Marine Corps

Wendell Phillips - Massachusetts, USA abolitionist and activist

Wendell Meredith Stanley - Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and virologist

Wendell Willkie - United States Republican Party nominee for the 1940 presidential election (lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - poet and essayist

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Wendell Borton is a recurring character on the television series The Simpsons.