Sandra Windland "Wendy" Smith Rice (January 19, 1970 – May 31, 2005) was an American nature and animal photographer.

[citation needed] Nature's Best Photography's annual Windland Smith Rice Awards are named after her.

Rice died suddenly in Memphis, Tennessee, on May 31, 2005, of Long QT Syndrome Type 2 while visiting her mother, Linda.

The Mayo Clinic opened the Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory to study this and similar diseases.

[4] Her family and friends established a memorial fund in her name under the Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes Foundation.