Wise, as a word, refers to someone with

wisdom Wisdom, also known as sapience, is the ability to apply knowledge, experience, and good judgment to navigate life’s complexities. It is often associated with insight, discernment, and ethics in decision-making. Throughout history, wisdom ha ...

. Wise may also refer to:

People

* Wise (surname) *

Wise (composer) Gabriel Antonio Cruz Padilla (born 1981 in Bayamón, Puerto Rico), known professionally as Wise or Wise The Gold Pen (formerly Wise Da 'Gangsta'), is a composer, singer, and producer. Career Wise began his career as a composer of various m ...

, also known as Wise da' Gangsta, a reggaeton producer/songwriter *

Wise (rapper) , better known by his stage name Wise, is a Japanese-American rapper who raps in both English and Japanese. His mother is American and his father is Japanese and during high school, he lived in the United States. He is affiliated with the creat ...

(born 1979), Japanese hip hop artist *

Wise (Stetsasonic) Leonardo Roman (born August 20, 1965), better known by his stage name Wise, is an American hip hop record producer and member of hip hop group Stetsasonic, commonly hailed as hip hop's first live band. Early life Born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, W ...

, real name Leonardo Roman, a hip hop artist known as 'Wise' from the group 'Stetsasonic' *

Rhett Wiseman Rhett Harrison Wiseman (born June 22, 1994), nicknamed "Wise", is an American former professional baseball outfielder.

Places

United States

* Wise, North Carolina *

Wise, Virginia Wise is a town in Wise County, Virginia. The population was 2,970 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Wise County. It was originally incorporated as the town of Gladeville in 1874. The town's name was changed to Wise in 1924, after Hen ...

Wana, West Virginia Wana — formerly Wise — is an unincorporated community in northwestern Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States. It lies along West Virginia Route 7 northwest of the city of Morgantown, the county seat of Monongalia County. Its ele ...

, also known as Wise *

Wise County, Texas Wise County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 68,632. Its county seat is Decatur. Wise County is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth– Arlington metropolitan statistical area. Its Wise Eyes crime ...

Wise County, Virginia Wise County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia. The county was formed in 1856 from Lee, Scott, and Russell Counties and named for Henry A. Wise, who was the Governor of Virginia at the time. The county seat is in Wise. Hi ...

* Wise River, Montana * Wise Township, Michigan

Businesses

Wise (company) Wise, previously known as TransferWise, is a British financial technology company focused on global money transfers. Headquartered in London, it was founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus in January 2011. As of 2023, it offers three ...

, a London-based financial services company *

Wise Company The Wise Company (stylized The Wise Co., a.k.a. The Wise Store) was a department store in Long Beach, California founded in the early 1900s by W. H. ("Herb") Wise. In 1894 Wise opened a grocery store at Cherry Ave. and Third Street in Long Beach ...

department store in Long Beach, California *

Wise Foods, Inc. Wise Foods, Inc. is a company based in Berwick, Pennsylvania, that makes snacks and sells them through retail food outlets in 15 eastern seaboard states, as well as Vermont, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C. Best kno ...

, a snack food manufacturer *

Wise Solutions Wise Solutions, Inc. started by John McMillan and Brien Witkowski was an American company that made software tools for creating application installers. Their primary product, Wise was one of the most widely used installation packages for Windows. ...

, an American software company that made the Wise software installation package *

Wise Stores Wise Stores was a department store chain located in Eastern Canada. It was founded in 1930 in Montreal by Alex Wise. By October 1988, the company had 28 stores and acquired 15 Continental outlets in eastern Quebec, New Brunswick and Ontario to ...

, a Canadian department store, mainly in Quebec

Other uses

* Wise, showing

: good judgement or the benefit of experience *

Wise Observatory The Florence and George Wise Observatory (IAU code 097) is an astronomy, astronomical observatory owned and operated by Tel Aviv University. It is located west of the town of Mitzpe Ramon in the Negev desert near the edge of the Ramon Crater, an ...

, an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Tel Aviv University

People

United States

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