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Andy Wightman Andrew Dearg Wightman is a Scottish Independent politician, who served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Lothian region from 2016 to 2021. He was elected as a member of the Scottish Greens, but resigned from the party in ...

, Scottish Green MSP and writer *

Arthur Wightman Arthur Strong Wightman (March 30, 1922 – January 13, 2013) was an American mathematical physicist. He was one of the founders of the axiomatic approach to quantum field theory, and originated the set of Wightman axioms. With his rigorous treatm ...

(1922–2013), American theoretical physicist * Brian Wightman (born 1976), Australian politician *

Bruce Wightman Bruce Wightman (5 March 1925 – 8 January 2009) was a New Zealand actor and expert on Bram Stoker who co-founded the Dracula Society. Early life Coming from a theatrical family, Wightman spent most of his adult life on stage, touring many ...

(1925–2009), actor who co-founded the Dracula Society in London in 1973 *

Edith Wightman Edith Mary Wightman FSA (1 January 1938 – 17 December 1983) was a British ancient historian and archaeologist. She was Assistant-Professor and then Professor at McMaster University (1969–1983). Wightman was best known for her studies ''Roma ...

(1938–1983), British historian and archaeologist *

Edward Wightman Edward Wightman (1566 – 11 April 1612) was an English Radical Reformation, radical Anabaptist Minister (Christianity), minister, executed at Lichfield on charges of heresy. He was the last person to be Execution by burning, burned at the stake ...

(1580–1612), English Baptist, last person to be burnt for heresy in England. *

Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman Hazel Virginia Hotchkiss Wightman, CBE (née Hotchkiss; December 20, 1886 – December 5, 1974) was an American tennis player and founder of the Wightman Cup, an annual team competition for British and American women. She dominated American wome ...

(1886–1974), American tennis player * Jake Wightman (born 1994), British athlete *

John Wightman John Milton Wightman (October 2, 1938 – January 5, 2017) was a politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. He served two terms, from 2007 to 2015, in the Nebraska Legislature, representing a district in the central ...

(1930–2017), American lawyer and politician *

Joseph Wightman (general) Joseph Wightman was a British Army officer who is best noted for his role in the suppression of the 1715 and 1719 Jacobite rebellions. Wightman also participated in the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession. Early life Wightm ...

(c.1665-1722), a British soldier of the eighteenth century * Julia Parker Wightman (1909-1994), American bibliophile and book collector * Louise Wightman (Lucy) (born 1959), American bodybuilder and dancer *

Mark Wightman Robert Mark Wightman (born July 4, 1947) is an electrochemist and professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is best known for his work in the areas of ultramicroelectrodes, electrochemistry, and neurochemistry. ...

(born 1947), British chemist *

Reginald Wightman Reginald Frederick Wightman (May 28, 1899 – January 23, 1981) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive from 1949 to 1958. Wightman was born in Nesbitt, Manitoba. He wa ...

(1899–1981), Canadian politician *

Robert Wightman Robert Wightman (born December 29, 1952) is an American actor. Biography He has often worked in the theater, notably in the West Coast Premier of the Tennessee Williams' play ''Vieux Carré'' produced with Williams' blessing by Karen Kondazian and ...

(born 1952), American actor *

Thomas Wightman Thomas Wightman (1811–1888) was an American painter of the nineteenth century, noted especially for his portraits and still life paintings. Life and career Wightman was a native of Charleston, South Carolina. His parents were William and Engli ...

(1811–1888), American painter *Bishop

William May Wightman Bishop William May Wightman (1808–1882) was an American educator and clergyman. He served as the President of Wofford College from 1853 to 1859. He served as the Chancellor of Southern University in Greensboro, Alabama (now known as Birmingh ...

(1808–1882), American educator and clergyman

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Wightman, Iowa Wightman is an unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Iowa, in the United States. It has a population of less than 500 individuals. History Wightman was platted in 1903 when the Chicago Great Western Railroad The Chicago Great Western Rai ...

, United States *

Wightman, Virginia Wightman is an unincorporated community in Mecklenburg County, Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and t ...

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Wightmans Grove, Ohio Wightmans Grove is a census-designated place in Sandusky County, in the U.S. state of Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of ...

, United States

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Wightman axioms In mathematical physics, the Wightman axioms (also called Gårding–Wightman axioms), named after Arthur Wightman, are an attempt at a mathematically rigorous formulation of quantum field theory. Arthur Wightman formulated the axioms in the ear ...

in quantum field theory, named after Arthur Wightman * Wightman Cup, a former tennis competition between UK and U.S.A. named after Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman

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