  We have detected 58 Wolf-Rayet candidates in the central region of the nearby
spiral galaxy NGC 300, based on deep VLT-FORS2 narrow-band imaging. Our survey
is close to complete except for heavily reddened WR stars. Of the objects in
our list, 16 stars were already spectroscopically confirmed as WR stars by
Schild & Testor and Breysacher et al., to which 4 stars are added using low
resolution FORS2 datasets. The WR population of NGC300 now totals 60,a
threefold increase over previous surveys, with WC/WN>1/3, in reasonable
agreement with Local Group galaxies for a moderately sub-solar metallicity. We
also discuss the WR surface density in the central region of NGC 300. Finally,
analyses are presented for two apparently single WC stars - #29 (alias WR3,
WC5) and #48 (alias WR13, WC4) located close to the nucleus, and at a
deprojected radius of 2.5 kpc, respectively. These are among the first models
of WR stars in galaxies beyond the Local Group, and are compared with early WC
stars in our Galaxy and LMC.
