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A male given name, transferred from the surname since the 18th century, today often without any religious connotations

A habitational surname

John Wesley, founder of Methodism

An English habitational surname for someone who lived in one of several places containing the elements "west lea"

transferred use of the surname since the eighteenth century, today often without any religious connotations

{i} John Wesley (1703-1791), English theologian and father of Methodism; Charles Wesley (1707-1788), English Methodist preacher and hymn writer; male first name

Bellows George Wesley Dean John Wesley III Hamming Richard Wesley Mitchell Wesley Clair Powell John Wesley Rickey Branch Wesley Eugene Wesley Roddenberry Wesley John

English clergyman and founder of Methodism (1703-1791)

English clergyman and brother of John Wesley who wrote many hymns (1707-1788)

English clergyman and founder of Methodism (1703-1791) English clergyman and brother of John Wesley who wrote many hymns (1707-1788)

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Wesley C Mitchell

born Aug. 5, 1874, Rushville, Ill., U.S. died Oct. 29, 1948, New York, N.Y. U.S. economist. Educated at the University of Chicago under Thorstein Veblen and John Dewey, he later taught at several universities, including Columbia (1913-19, 1922-44). He helped found the National Bureau of Economic Research in 1920 and was its director of research until 1945. His work greatly influenced the development of quantitative studies of economic behaviour in the U.S. and abroad, and he was the foremost expert of his day on business cycles

Wesley Clair Mitchell

born Aug. 5, 1874, Rushville, Ill., U.S. died Oct. 29, 1948, New York, N.Y. U.S. economist. Educated at the University of Chicago under Thorstein Veblen and John Dewey, he later taught at several universities, including Columbia (1913-19, 1922-44). He helped found the National Bureau of Economic Research in 1920 and was its director of research until 1945. His work greatly influenced the development of quantitative studies of economic behaviour in the U.S. and abroad, and he was the foremost expert of his day on business cycles

Branch Wesley Rickey

born Dec. 20, 1881, Stockdale, Ohio, U.S. died Dec. 9, 1965, Columbia, Mo. U.S. baseball executive. Rickey began playing professional baseball while a student at Ohio Wesleyan University. In 1917 he began a long association with the St. Louis Cardinals (president, 1917-19; field manager, 1919-25; general manager, 1925-42). In 1919 he devised the farm system of training ballplayers. He later became president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers (1943-50). Defying strong resistance, in 1945 he broke a long-standing race barrier by hiring the first black player in major league baseball. Jackie Robinson played for the Dodgers' farm teams for two years before he was brought up to play as an infielder for Brooklyn in 1947. Rickey was later associated with the Pittsburgh Pirates (1950-59)

Dean John Wesley

born Oct. 14, 1938, Akron, Ohio, U.S. U.S. lawyer and White House counsel. He received a law degree from Georgetown University in 1965. In 1970 he was appointed White House counsel by Pres. Richard Nixon. In 1972 Nixon asked Dean to investigate whether White House personnel were involved in the Watergate Hotel break-in (see Watergate scandal). Dean refused to issue a proposed fictitious report denying a cover-up. When indications of White House involvement grew stronger, he began telling federal investigators what he knew. Nixon fired him in April 1973; two months later Dean testified before a Senate committee about obstruction of justice by White House officials, including the president. He spent four months in prison for his role in the Watergate cover-up. His revelations contributed to Nixon's decision to resign in 1974

George Wesley Bellows

born Aug. 12, 1882, Columbus, Ohio, U.S. died Jan. 8, 1925, New York, N.Y. U.S. painter and lithographer. He studied with Robert Henri at the New York School of Art and became associated with the artists of the Ash Can school. Best known for his boxing scenes, he achieved notoriety with his painting Stag at Sharkey's (1909), which depicts an illegal boxing match. He was one of the organizers of the Armory Show. From 1916 until his death he produced a series of some 200 lithographs, including the well-known Dempsey and Firpo (1924)

John (Wesley) Hardin

1856-95, a US gunfighter and outlaw of the Wild West

John Wesley

an English religious leader who started a new type of Christianity called Methodism. He travelled around the country speaking to large numbers of people, and held his meetings outside rather than in churches (1703-91). (1703-1791) Anglican clergyman, evangelist, and cofounder of Methodism. The 15th child of a former Nonconformist minister, he graduated from Oxford University and became a priest in the Church of England in 1728. From 1729 he participated in a religious study group in Oxford organized by his brother Charles (1707-1788), its members being dubbed the "Methodists" for their emphasis on methodical study and devotion. Its numbers grew, and it began to undertake social and charitable activities. After a largely unsuccessful mission to the North American colony of Georgia (1735-37), they returned to London, where they came under the influence of the Moravian Church. In 1738, inspired by the theology of Martin Luther, both men had a religious experience that convinced them that salvation was possible through faith alone. Zealous evangelists, they had great success in preaching to the masses in the succeeding decades. In 1784 John began ordaining ministers himself when the bishop of London refused to do so (despite Charles's disapproval) and declared his independence from the Church of England. The two wrote several thousand hymns, including "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" and "Christ the Lord Is Ris'n Today

John Wesley Powell

born March 24, 1834, Mount Morris, N.Y., U.S. died Sept. 23, 1902, Haven, Maine U.S. geologist and ethnologist. Powell took many expeditions (1871-79) down the Colorado River, describing the earliest of these in Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries (1875). He developed the first comprehensive classification of American Indian languages (1877) and was the first director of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology (1879-1902). In 1881 he became director of the U.S. Geological Survey, where he worked extensively on mapping water sources and advancing irrigation projects

Richard Wesley Hamming

born Feb. 11, 1915, Chicago, Ill., U.S. died Jan. 7, 1998, Monterey, Calif. U.S. mathematician. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. In 1945 he was the chief mathematician for the Manhattan Project. After the war, he joined Claude E. Shannon at Bell Laboratories, where in 1950 he invented Hamming codes. He realized that, by the appending of a parity check (an extra bit or block of bits) to each transmitted "word," transmission errors could be corrected automatically, without having to resend the message. He is famous for saying, "The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers." He received the Turing Award in 1968

Hyphenation

Wes·ley

Turkish pronunciation

wesli

Pronunciation

/ˈweslē/ /ˈwɛsliː/

Etymology

[ 'wes-lE, 'wez- ] (biographical name.) Several places in England, from Old English west (“west”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”).