35º26N 100º16W, pop (2000e) 1400. Seat of Wheeler Co, Texas, USA; first settled by ranchers in 1881; the town prospered after oil was discovered (c.1928); commercial centre of a rich farming and ranching area; petroleum production; birthplace of Alan Bean, the main street is named after him.
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Wheeler, first African-American mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan Alison Wheeler, British political activist Alwyne Wheeler, an ichthyologist after whom the Society for the History of Natural History
named their annual Alwyne Wheeler Bursary Anne Wheeler, Canadian film and television director Benjamin Ide Wheeler – Former President of the University of California Benjamin Wheeler – Oxford
Professor of Poetry from 1766-1776 Bert Wheeler, American comedian Candace Wheeler, founder of the Society of Decorative Art in New York City (1877) Charles Wheeler (painter) Charles Wheeler
(cinematographer) Sir Charles Wheeler, a journalist with the BBC. Charles Wheeler (homeopathist) Charles Wheeler (politician) - former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, USA and current Missouri
State Senator Sir Charles Wheeler (sculptor) - President of the Royal Academy of Art Cheryl Wheeler, American Singer-songwriter Caron Wheeler, English R&B singer Damen Wheeler, XFL cornerback
Dan Wheeler, Major League Baseball pitcher David John Wheeler, a computer scientist who together with Michael Burrows invented the Burrows-Wheeler transform David Wheeler, movie and television
actor, writer, and director. Ellen Wheeler, American actress Erica Wheeler, American folk singer-songwriter Major G Felix Wheeler is the Crown Equerry George Campbell Wheeler, Lieutenant Colonel
in the British Indian Army and recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War I George Godfrey Massy Wheeler, Major in the British Indian Army and recipient of the Victoria Cross during World
War I George Montague Wheeler, 19th century U.S. Army Captain, explorer and cartographer of the western United States Harold Wheeler, composer, conductor, orchestrator, arranger, record producer,
and music director. John Archibald Wheeler, an American physicist who coined the term
black hole Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, a conservative British historian of German and diplomatic history
John Wheeler (ironmaster) of Wollaston, Stourbridge, England (died 1708) John Wheeler (commerce), an English businessman John Wheeler (actor), an actor John Wheeler (audio/video technologist) of
Berkeley, California Sir John Wheeler, British politician and Northern Ireland Office minister John C. Kenny Wheeler, Canadian composer Lucille Wheeler, Canadian Alpine skiing world champion
Maggie Wheeler, American actress Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler, a British archaeologist famous for his work on the Indus Valley Civilization Nathaniel Wheeler, 1800s businessman in Bridgeport,
CT, United States Nick Wheeler, guitarist of The All-American Rejects band Peter Wheeler, England rugby union international footballer Roger Wheeler (British military) Roger Wheeler (United
States businessman) - former CEO of Telex Captain Roger W. drummer in the American rock band "This Hollywood Machine" Wilson Roy Wheeler, Australian ornithologist Wheeler Hazard Peckham, American
lawyer Wheeler Thackston, orientalist
Bands
18 Wheeler Scottish rock band
Fictional characters
Charlie Wheeler,
Friends (TV series) Matthew Wheeler (Captain Planet character)' Wheeler, in science fiction novel,
Signal to Noise Joey Wheeler or his sister Serenity Wheeler
of
Yu-Gi-Oh! Rick Wheeler, a.k.a.
US towns
Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii Wheeler, Illinois Wheeler, New York Wheeler, Oregon Wheeler, Texas Wheeler, Wisconsin
US counties
Wheeler County, Georgia Wheeler County, Nebraska Wheeler County, Texas
US mountains
Wheeler Peak (New Mexico) Wheeler Peak (Nevada)
US Secondary Schools
Joseph Wheeler High School
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