A wainwright is a tradesperson skilled in the making and repairing of wagons (synonymous with cartwright). The word is the combination of the archaic words "wain" (a large wagon for farm use) and "wright" (a worker or maker).
In places:
- Canada
- CFB Wainwright, Canadian Forces Base
- Wainwright (provincial electoral district), former Alberta electoral district
- Wainwright, Alberta, town
- Wainwright No. 61, Alberta, municipal district
- United States
- Fort Wainwright, United States Army base located near Fairbanks, Alaska
- Wainwright, Alabama
- Wainwright, Alaska
- Wainwright, Missouri
- Wainwright, Jackson County, Ohio
- Wainwright, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
- Wainwright, Oklahoma
In other uses:
- Gideon v. Wainwright, major court battle
- List of Wainwrights, 214 fells (hills and mountains) described in A. Wainwright's seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells
- USC&GS Wainwright (1942) a survey ship in commission in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1942 to 1967
- USS Wainwright, name of three United States Navy ships
- Wainwright Building, landmark office building in St. Louis, Missouri