Wesley (name)
Wesley is a variant of Westley originally a local English surname and male given name derived from this . A short form of the first name that occurs especially in the USA is Wes .
Origin and meaning
The name is derived from a place name with the Old English meaning "west meadow".
Name bearer
First name
- Wesley Lopes Beltrame (* 1987), Brazilian soccer player
- Wesley Alex Maiolino (* 1988), Brazilian soccer player
- Wesley Clark (born 1944), retired general D. of the US Army
- Wesley Moodie (* 1979), South African tennis player
- Wesley Pentz (* 1978), American musician and DJ
- Wesley C. Skiles (1958-2010), American cave diver and underwater photographer
- Wesley Sneijder (* 1984), Dutch football player
- Wesley Snipes (born 1962), American actor
- Wesley Sonck (* 1978), Belgian football player
Middle name
- John Wesley Houston , American actor
family name
- Charles Wesley (1707–1788), English theologian
- Charles Wesley junior (1757–1834), English organist and composer
- Christopher Wesley (* 1987), German field hockey player
- Fred Wesley (* 1943), American trombonist
- Glen Wesley (* 1968), Canadian ice hockey player
- James Paul Wesley (1921–2007), American physicist
- John Wesley (preacher) (1703–1791), Anglican pastor and founder of the Methodist movement
- John Wesley (painter) (born 1928), American painter
- John Wesley (actor) (1947-2019), American actor
- John Wesley (musician) (born 1962), American musician
- Martin Wesley-Smith (1945–2019), Australian composer
- Mary Wesley (1912-2002), British novelist
- Michael Wesley-Smith (born 1983), New Zealand actor
- Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (* 1955), Liberian poet and professor
- Paul Wesley (* 1982), American film actor
- Peter Wesley-Smith , Australian law professor and author
- Robert Wesley-Smith (* 1942), Australian East Timor activist
- Rutina Wesley (* 1979), American actress
- Samuel Wesley (senior) (1662–1735), English poet and theologian (father of John and Charles Wesley )
- Samuel Wesley (1766–1837), English organist and composer
- Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810–1876), English composer
- Susanna Wesley (1699–1742), "Mother of Methodism"
- Valerie Wilson Wesley (* 1947), American journalist and writer
- William Henry Wesley (1841–1922), English lithographer
See also
- Helen Westley (1875–1942), American actress
- Émile Wesly (1858–1926), Brussels composer and journalist
Web links
- Wesley on en.wiktionary.org (Engl.)