Wanless (surname)
Wanless is a surname of Scottish and Northeast English origin, derived from the Middle English and Older Scots word "wanles" meaning "luckless", "hopeless", "despairing".
Notable people with this surname include:
- Betty Wanless, American baseball player
- Derek Wanless, English banker
- Elizabeth Wanless, American shot putter
- Harold R. "Hal" Wanless American geographer and environmentalist
- Ian Wanless, Australian mathematician
- Neville Wanless, English broadcaster
- Paul Wanless, English footballer
- Peter Wanless, English civil servant
- Robert Wanless O'Gowan, British army officer
- Sarah Wanless, English ornithologist
- William James Wanless, Canadian medical missionary to India