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Electric Wizard

wizard may refer to:

Literature

  • 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

Film and television

  • 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, first aired in 2007

Comics and animation

  • 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), a British comic paper that ran from 1922 to the 1980s
  • Wizardmon, a Wizard Digimon from Digimon

Games

  • 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 (board game), a 1978 board game released by Metagaming, companion game to Melee

Technology

  • 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

Music

  • Wizard (German band), a power metal/speed metal band
  • Wizards (band), a power metal band from Brazil
  • Wizzard, a 1970s British glam rock 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 V�zquez 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

Sports

  • 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

Transportation

  • Wizard, a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive

People

  • Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, living Wizard and also Headmaster of the online Grey School of Wizardry
  • 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"
  • The Wizard (footballer) or Jeff Farmer
  • Juan Quarterone, a soccer player nicknamed "El Brujo" or "The Wizard"

Other

  • Grand Wizard and Imperial Wizard, titles in the Ku Klux Klan

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