Wanderer Explained

Wanderer, Wanderers, or The Wanderer may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

• The Wanderer (1913 film), a silent film
• The Wanderer (1925 film), a silent film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Greta Nissen and Wallace Beery
• The Wanderers (1956 film), an Italian drama film directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring Peter Ustinov
• The Wanderer (1967 film), a French film directed by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
• The Wanderers (1973 film), a Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa
• The Wanderers (1979 film), an American film directed by Philip Kaufman
• Wanderers (2014 film), a Swedish science fiction short
• The Wanderer (TV series), a 1994 British television series starring Bryan Brown
• Wanderer, a character in Leafie, A Hen into the Wild, a 2011 South Korean animated film
• The Wanderer, a character in the Canadian television series Lost Girl

Music

Groups

• The Wanderers (band), a 1981 punk band established by Stiv Bators

Albums

• The Wanderer (Holy Blood album), 2002
• The Wanderer (O.A.R. album), 1997
• The Wanderer (Kevin Rowland album), 1988
• The Wanderer (Donna Summer album), 1980
• The Wanderer, a 2001 album by Karunesh
• Wanderer, a 2011 Celtic relaxing album by Adrian von Ziegler
• Wanderer (Heaven Shall Burn album), 2016
• Wanderer (Cara Dillon album), 2017
• Wanderer (Cat Power album), 2018
• Wanderer (Ruth Moody album), 2024
• Wanderers (album), a 2019 album by Visions of Atlantis

Classical works

• Der Wanderer (D 489), an 1816 song by Franz Schubert
• "Der Wanderer", a Robert Schumann song
• "Der Wanderer", a Pascal Dusapin song based on a poem by Friedrich Nietzsche
• "Der Wanderer", a Anselm Hüttenbrenner song
• "Der Wanderer", pour choeur d'hommes et piano, by Philippe Hersant
• Wanderer Fantasy, a fantasy for piano by Franz Schubert
• The Wanderer, the god Wotan in Wagner's opera Siegfried
• "The Wanderer" or "Po dikim stepyam Zabaikalya", a Russian folk song
• The Wanderer, a 2005 Ezequiel Viñao a cappella piece
• The Wanderer, a Modest Mussorgsky song

Songs

• "The Wanderer" (Dion song), a 1961 song by Dion
• "The Wanderer" (Donna Summer song), a 1980 song on her album of the same name
• "The Wanderer" (U2 song), a 1993 song by U2 with lead vocals by Johnny Cash
• "The Wanderer", a song from the 1997 album Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk by Emperor
• "Wanderer", a song from the 2007 album Victory Songs by Ensiferum
• "The Wanderer", a song from the 2013 album Circle by Amorphis
• "Wanderer", a song from the 2016 album Jomsviking by Amon Amarth
• "The Wanderer", a song from the 2019 album Philosophers, Poets & Kings by Kate Rusby
• "The Happy Wanderer", the English title of a post-World War II German song

Novels

• The Wanderer (Burney novel), an 1814 novel by Frances Burney
• The Wanderer (Creech novel), 2000 novel by Sharon Creech
• The Wanderer (Edwards novel), a 1953 children's novel by Monica Edwards
• The Wanderer or Le Grand Meaulnes, a 1913 novel by Henri-Alban Fournier under the pen name Alain-Fournier
• The Wanderers, a 2017 novel by Meg Howrey
• The Wanderer (Leiber novel), a 1964 novel by Fritz Leiber
• The Wanderers (Price novel), a 1974 novel by Richard Price
• The Wanderers (Rimland novel), a 1977 novel by Ingrid Rimland
• Wanderer, a 1985 Dennis Schmidt science fiction novel
• The Wanderers (Shishkov novel), a 1931 novel by Vyacheslav Shishkov
• The Wanderer, by Kahlil Gibran
• The Wanderer (Waltari novel), a 1949 novel by Mika Waltari
• Wanderers (novel), a 2019 dystopian science fiction novel by Chuck Wendig

Poems

• "The Wanderer" (Old English poem), an Old English poem
• "The Wanderer", a 1726 poem by Richard Savage
• "The Wanderer" (Maykov poem), am 1867 poem by Apollon Maykov
• "The Wanderer", a poem by John Masefield (1878–1967)
  • "The Wanderer", a 1913 poem by Christopher Brennan "The Wanderer", a 1921 poem by Henry Lane Eno

Other arts and entertainment

• The Peredvizhniki or Wanderers, a school of nineteenth-century Russian painters
• Wanderer, a fictional character from Genshin Impact.
• Wanderers (comics), a DC Comics publication
• The Wanderer (manga), by Narumi Kakinouchi
• Wanderer (video game), 1986
• The Wanderer, main character of Diablo IV, a video game to be released in 2023
• The Wanderer (audio drama), a 2012 Dr. Who work
• Wanderers, a 1909 Knut Hamsun anthology
• The Wanderers (Russian: Странники | translit = Stranniki|link=no), a mysterious race in the Strugatsky brothers' Noon Universe

Butterflies

• Bematistes aganice, aka the wanderer, a species of tropical Africa
• Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), aka wanderer, a species of the Americas
• various species of the genus Pareronia of tropical Asia

Ships

• HMS Wanderer, several ships of the British Royal Navy
• USS Wanderer, several United States Navy ships
• Wanderer (sailing dinghy), a 14-foot sailing dinghy designed by Ian Proctor
• Wanderer (slave ship), a ship that illegally carried more than 500 slaves from the Congo and Angola to Savannah, Georgia in 1858
• Pearson Wanderer, a 30-foot sailboat designed by Bill Shaw
• Wanderer (1865), an Oldenburg brigantine lost without trace 1885 on a voyage from Mexico to Falmouth
• Wanderer (1878), a steam yacht which later became HMS Sealark
• Wanderer (1879), the last whaling ship built in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, for which The Wanderer (Massachusetts newspaper) was named
• Wanderer (1891), a four-masted steel barque which inspired John Masefield's poem of the same name
• Wanderer (1893), a San Francisco pilot boat bought by Sterling Hayden and used for his voyage to Tahiti
• Wanderer, a 16-foot Wayfarer dinghy sailed by travel writer Frank Dye

Sports

Venues

• Wanderers Grounds, a playing ground in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Wanderers Cricket Ground Windhoek, Namibia
• Wanderers Stadium, a cricket ground in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Old Wanderers, a former cricket ground in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Sharjah Wanderers, a sports club and grounds in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Teams

Australia

• Wanderers Football Club, Marrara, Northern Territory
• Western Sydney Wanderers FC
• Western Sydney Wanderers FC (W-League)

Canada

• Ajax Wanderers R.U.F.C.
• Castaway Wanderers RFC
• Wanderers Amateur Athletic Club
• HFX Wanderers FC
• Montreal Wanderers
• Montreal Wanderers RFC

Ireland

• Wanderers F.C. (rugby union), a rugby union club based in Dublin
• Ballyboden Wanderers GAA
• Bray Wanderers F.C.
• Pembroke Wanderers Hockey Club
• Wexford Wanderers RFC

New Zealand

• Cashmere Wanderers
• Hamilton Wanderers AFC
• Havelock North Wanderers AFC

United States

• Brooklyn Wanderers
• Grafton Wanderers

United Kingdom

England

• • • Wanderers F.C. Birkenhead Wanderers Bolton Wanderers F.C.
• Burton Wanderers F.C.
• Burton Park Wanderers F.C.
• Cray Wanderers F.C.
• Dorking Wanderers F.C.
• Ipswich Wanderers F.C.
• Moseley Wanderers
• Old Hill Wanderers F.C.
• Public School Wanderers
• Shropshire Wanderers F.C.
• Sudbury Wanderers F.C.
• Warstones Wanderers F.C.
• Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
• Wolverhampton Wanderers W.F.C.
• Woolpack Wanderers F.C.
• Wycombe Wanderers F.C.

Scotland

• Aberdeen Wanderers RFC
• Dundee Wanderers F.C.
• Forth Wanderers F.C.
• Greenock Wanderers RFC
• Murrayfield Wanderers RFC
• Nithsdale Wanderers F.C.
• St Cuthbert Wanderers F.C.

Wales

• Glamorgan Wanderers RFC
• Llanelli Wanderers RFC

Malta

• S.K. Victoria Wanderers F.C.
• Sliema Wanderers F.C.

Elsewhere

Africa:

• African Wanderers F.C., South Africa
• Arsenal Wanderers, Mauritius
• Manzini Wanderers F.C., Eswatini
• Mighty Wanderers FC, Malawi
• Mufulira Wanderers F.C., Zambia

South America

• Montevideo Wanderers F.C., Uruguay
• Santiago Wanderers, Chile
• Scottish Wanderers Football Club, Brazil

Elsewhere

• Wanderers Cricket Club, a cricket club in Barbados
• NS Wanderers RC, Malaysia

Other uses

• The Wanderer, an alternate name for the Wandering Jew
• , German portrait painter
• The Wanderer (criminal) (1958–2018), nickname for Norwegian burglar Terje Larsen
• Wanderer (company), a German automobile manufacturer, constituent of Auto Union
• World Wide Web Wanderer, an early web-crawler
• Wanderer (AROS), a user interface based on Zune widget toolkit
• The Wanderer (Massachusetts newspaper), an American weekly newspaper
• The Wanderer (Roman Catholic newspaper), an American Catholic national weekly based in Minnesota
• Wanderer, the 1963 autobiography by Sterling Hayden

See also

• • • The Wanderer Tour, a 1981 concert tour associated with the Donna Summer album
• Wander (disambiguation)
• Wandering (disambiguation)