Wayne was named by Time magazine in 2006 as one of the 100 people who shaped the world in 2005. He now spends time travelling between his different bases in Lantau and New Hampshire in the United States, where his wife Gaye is a professor of linguistics, and other parts of the world to which his new su doku puzzles have taken him. He has two children, daughter Sally, 31, and son, Scott, 29.