Wizard
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A wizard is a person with magical, or at least exceptional, abilities.
Wizard may also refer to:
- Wizard (fantasy), in fantasy and mythology, a person who has studied and practices magic. Specific instances include:
- Wizard (Middle-earth), powerful entities from the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien
- Wizard (Oz), a character in L. Frank Baum’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its movie adaptations
- Wizards (Discworld), as featured in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett
- A male user of magic in the Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling
- Wizard, a type of person featured in The Sword of Truth series of novels by Terry Goodkind
- A male user of magic in The Dresden Files novel series by Jim Butcher
- Wizard (novel), a science fiction novel by John Varley
- Wizards (film), a 1977 animated post-apocalyptic fantasy/science fiction film by Ralph Bakshi
- The Wizard (film), a 1989 American film about a skilled video game player
- The Wizard (TV series), a short-lived 1980s CBS television series
- "The Wizard" (Seinfeld episode), an episode of the television show Seinfeld
- Mr. Wizard, the stage name of Don Herbert, who developed and starred in two children's television shows about science:
- Watch Mr. Wizard, first aired in 1951
- Mr. Wizard's World, first aired in 1983
- Wizards of Waverly Place, airing in October 2007.
- Wizard (magazine), a monthly magazine that spawned successful spinoffs in other areas of interest
- Wizard (DC Comics), a supervillain and enemy of the Justice Society of America
- Wizard (Marvel Comics), a supervillain and enemy of the Fantastic Four, also known as "The Wingless Wizard"
- Wizard (Archie Comics), a superhero with great physical and mental abilities
- Wizard (D. C. Thomson) the British comic paper that ran from 1922 to the 1980s.
- Wizardmon, a Wizard Digimon from Digimon
- Wizards of the Coast, a Seattle-based games publisher known for Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons
- Wizard (character class), magic-wielding character types in many role-playing games
- Wizard (Dungeons & Dragons), the Dungeons & Dragons character class
- Wizardry, a series of "dungeon crawl" computer games from the 1980s
- Wizard (computer game), a 1983 Commodore 64 game that was later re-released in 1986 as Ultimate Wizard
- Wizard (video game), a game designed by Chris Crawford for the Atari 2600 and released in 2005
- Wizards (board game), a board game produced in 1982 by Avalon Hill
- Wizard (card game), a trick-taking card game
- Wizard (software), a computer user interface that leads a user through dialog steps
- Sharp Wizard, a personal organizer released in 1988
- HTC Wizard, a QWERTY-keyboard pocket PC
- Wizard Robotics, a robotics engineering institute from New Zealand
- Wizard (German band), a power metal/speed metal band
- Wizards (band), a power metal band from Brazil
- Wizzard, a 1970s British glam rock band
- Wizzard (band), a Finnish heavy metal band
- The Wizzard, a calypso singer from Dominica
- "The Wizard" (Black Sabbath song) a song by Black Sabbath, released in 1970
- "The Wizard" (Uriah Heep song), a song by Uriah Heep, released in 1972
- Wizard (EP), an EP from the Argentinian band Beto Vázquez Infinity
- "Pinball Wizard", a song from The Who's rock opera Tommy
- "The Wizard", the second track from Albert Ayler's album Spiritual Unity
- Wizard (record label), an Australian record label
- Electric Wizard, Stoner doom metal band from UK
- Wizardzz, a noise pop duo featuring Brian Gibson
- "The Wizard", one of the theme tunes of the TV show Top of the Pops
- Fort Wayne Wizards, a team in the Midwest League of professional baseball
- Kansas City Wizards, a team in Major League Soccer (Football)
- Washington Wizards, a team in the National Basketball Association
- NAB Cup, known as the Wizard Cup from 2002-2005
- Wizard, a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive
- The Wizard of New Zealand (formerly Ian Brackenbury Channell), an orator and eccentric
- Thomas Edison, an inventor nicknamed the "Wizard of Menlo Park"
- Ozzie Smith, a baseball player nicknamed "The Wizard".
- Jeff Farmer (footballer), nicknamed "The Wizard" or "Wiz"
- Juan Quarterone, a soccer player nicknamed "El Brujo" or "The Wizard"
- Grand Wizard and Imperial Wizard, titles in the Ku Klux Klan