George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells. He also served as the 7th President of the University of Chicago.

Wahoo is a city and the county seat of Saunders County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 4,818 at the 2020 census.