Famous People with Name Wadi

Wadi Ayoub            Origin/Culture/Country: Lebanese

Wadi Ayoub: was a champion Greco–Roman style professional wrestler, best known as Sheik Ali. By the age of 22, he had progressed to being the Champion of Lebanon. In 1951, he left Lebanon behind, and came to Australia in search of a better way of life. Realising that

Wadih Sa'adeh            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Wadih Sa'adeh: is a Lebanese-Australian poet and journalist.Wadih Sa'adah was born in Lebanon in 1948. He has worked as a journalist in Beirut, London, Paris and Nicosia, before migrating to Australia in 1988.

Solhi Al-Wadi            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Solhi Al-Wadi: was an Iraqi-born musician, conductor, composer, educator and director, who lived most of his life in Damascus, Syria.Solhi Al-Wadi was born in Baghdad on 12 February 1934 to an Iraqi father and a Jordanian mother, who moved to live in Damascus, Syria, when he was a child. He went to Victoria College, a British boarding school in Alexandria, Egypt, where he started to study the violin and composition at the local conservatory. In 1953 he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Music in London to pursue higher studies in music.

Bahman Pestonji Wadia            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Bahman Pestonji Wadia: was an Indian theosophist and labour activist. He was first a member of the TS Adyar, later of the United Lodge of Theosophists. On 13 April 1918, along with V. Kalyanasundaram Mudaliar, Wadia founded the Madras Labour Union, one of India's first organise