List of people by name, W–Z

Subset of List of people by name

Waa–Waq

 * Waagen, Gustav Friedrich
 * Waberi, Abdourahman
 * Wachirabunjong, Pongpat
 * Wade, J. Augustine
 * Wadewitz, Adrianne
 * Wadhwa, Mridul
 * Wadiyar, Jayachamarajendra
 * Wagner, Jane
 * Wagner, Richard
 * Wahabi, Majalli
 * Wahlberg, Mark
 * Waid, Mark
 * Wain, John
 * Wainwright, Adam
 * Wainwright, Loudon
 * Wainwright, Rufus
 * Waite, Morrison
 * Waithe, Lena
 * Waits, Tom
 * Waitzkin, Joshua
 * Wakefield, Buddy
 * Waksman, Selman
 * Walcott, Derek
 * Walcott, Joe
 * Walcott, Theo
 * Walden, Greg
 * Walden, Herwarth
 * Waldman, Ayelet
 * Wales, Jimmy
 * Wałęsa, Lech
 * Walken, Christopher
 * Walker, Alice
 * Walker, Clement
 * Walker, Jackie (activist)
 * Walker, Kara
 * Walker, Murray
 * Walker, Paul
 * Walker, Rebecca
 * Walker, Richmond
 * Walker, William
 * Wall, Arnold
 * Wall, Larry
 * Walla, Chris
 * Wallace, Alan
 * Wallace, Alfred Russel
 * Wallace, Christopher George Latore "The Notorious B.I.G."
 * Wallace, David Foster
 * Wallace, Edgar
 * Wallace, Frank R.
 * Wallace, George
 * Wallace, Henry A.
 * Wallace, William Ross
 * Wallace, William
 * Wallant, Edward Lewis
 * Waller, David Jewett
 * Waller, Edmund
 * Wallerstein, Immanuel
 * Wallis, Duchess of Windsor
 * Wallis, George
 * Wallis, John
 * Walpole, Horace
 * Walpole, Hugh
 * Walpole, Robert
 * Walras, Léon
 * Walt, Stephen
 * Waltari, Mika
 * Walter, Harriet
 * Walter, Natasha
 * Walters, Barbara
 * Walther von der Vogelweide
 * Walton, Bill
 * Walton, Izaak
 * Walton, Jo
 * Walton, Nancy Bird
 * Walton, Sam
 * Waltz, Kenneth
 * Wamariya, Clemantine
 * Wang, An
 * Wang Ching-feng
 * Wang, Esmé Weijun
 * Wang, Jen
 * Wang Yu-chi
 * Wap, Fetty (real name is Willie Maxwell)
 * Waqabaca, Josaia

War–Waz

 * Waradi, Taito
 * Warburton, Nigel
 * Warburton, Patrick
 * Ward, Artemus
 * Ward, Edward "Ned"
 * Ward, Jesmyn
 * Ward, M.
 * Ward, Mary Augusta
 * Ward, Micky
 * Ward-Higgs, William
 * Ward, Nathaniel
 * Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge
 * Warhol, Andy
 * Warlimont, Walter
 * Warlock, Peter
 * Warne, Shane
 * Warner, Anna Bartlett
 * Warner, Charles Dudley
 * Warner, Harold ("Harry")
 * Warner, Kurt
 * Warner, Marina
 * Warner, William
 * Warnke, Mike
 * Warren, Earl
 * Warren, Elizabeth
 * Warren, Josiah
 * Warren, Rick
 * Warren, Robert Penn
 * Warton, Thomas
 * Warwick, Dionne
 * Warwick, Kevin
 * Washines, Lavina
 * Washington, Booker T.
 * Washington, George
 * Washington, Kerry
 * Washington, Martha
 * Wasserman, Lew
 * Wasserstein, Wendy
 * Waterhouse, Keith
 * Waterman, Alan Tower
 * Waterman, Nixon
 * Waters, John
 * Waters, Maxine
 * Waters, Roger
 * Watson, Emma
 * Watson, James D.
 * Watson, John B.
 * Watson, Larry
 * Watson, Paul
 * Watson, Richard
 * Watson, Thomas J.
 * Watson, Thomas
 * Watson, William
 * Watt, James
 * Watt, James G.
 * Watt, Mike
 * Watters, Jesse
 * Watterson, Bill
 * Watts, Alan
 * Watts, Anthony
 * Watts, George Frederick
 * Watts, Isaac
 * Watts, J. C.
 * Watts, Naomi
 * Watts, Reggie
 * Watts, Stephanie Powell
 * Watts-Dunton, Theodore
 * Waugh, Alec
 * Waugh, Auberon
 * Waugh, Evelyn
 * Waugh, Paul
 * Wayland, Francis
 * Wayne, Anthony
 * Wayne, John
 * Wayne, Lil

We

 * Weatherhead, Leslie
 * Weatherly, Fred
 * Weaver, Richard
 * Weaver, Sigourney
 * Weaver, Warren
 * Weaving, Hugo
 * Webb, Charles Henry
 * Webb, Gary
 * Webb, James Henry "Jim"
 * Webb, Sidney, 1st Baron Passfield
 * Webbe, William
 * Weber, David
 * Weber, Max
 * Webern, Anton
 * Webster, Daniel
 * Webster, David L.
 * Webster, John
 * Webster, Noah
 * Weems, Mason
 * Wei, Wei Wu
 * Weierstrass, Karl
 * Weil, André
 * Weil, Simone
 * Weill, Sanford
 * Wein, Len
 * Weinberg, Alvin M.
 * Weinberg, Gerald
 * Weinberg, Jack
 * Weinberg, Steven
 * Weinberger, David
 * Weiner, Anthony
 * Weiner, Jonathan
 * Weiner, Lawrence
 * Weininger, Otto
 * Weiping, Cui
 * Weir, Johnny
 * Weir, Peter
 * Weis, René
 * Weisglass, Dov
 * Weishaupt, Adam
 * Weiss, Aaron
 * Weiss, John
 * Weiss, Peter
 * Weisskopf, Victor Frederick
 * Weisz, Rachel
 * Weisz, Victor‎
 * Weitz, Paul
 * Weiwei, Ai
 * Welch, Jack
 * Welch, Raquel
 * Weldon, Fay
 * Weller, Paul
 * Welles, Gideon
 * Welles, Orson
 * Wellesley, Dorothy
 * Wellington, 1st Duke of
 * Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
 * Wells, Jonathan
 * Welsh, Irvine
 * Welty, Eudora
 * Wen-Ying Tsai
 * Wenda, Benny
 * Wenger, Arsène
 * Wenness, Godfrey
 * Wentworth, John
 * Wentz, Peter
 * Weor, Samael Aun
 * Werfel, Franz
 * Werlin, Nancy
 * Wertmüller, Lina
 * Wesker, Arnold
 * Wesley, Charles
 * Wesley, John
 * Wessinger, Catherine
 * West, Allen
 * West, Cornel
 * West, Don, Jr.
 * West, Dottie
 * West, Geoffrey
 * West, Jessamyn
 * West, Kanye
 * West, Keith
 * West, Mae
 * West, Morris
 * West, Paul
 * West, Rebecca
 * West, Thomas G.
 * Westheimer, Frank
 * Westlake, Donald E.
 * Westphal, Merold
 * Westwood, Vivienne
 * Wever, Robert
 * Wexner, Leslie H. "Les"
 * Weyl, Hermann
 * Weyrich, Paul

Wh

 * Wharnsby, Dawud
 * Wharton, Edith
 * Whately, Richard
 * Wheatley, Margaret
 * Wheatley, Phillis
 * Whedon, Joss
 * Wheelan, Charles
 * Wheeler, John Archibald
 * Wheeler, Stuart
 * Whewell, William
 * Whipple, Edwin Percy
 * Whipple, Henry Benjamin
 * Whipple, William, Jr.
 * Whistler, James McNeill
 * Whitacre, John Jefferson
 * Whitaker, Brian
 * White Dawg
 * White, Andrew Dickson
 * White, Byron
 * White, Chilton Allen
 * White, Curtis
 * White, Dana
 * White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks)
 * White, Edmund
 * White, Ellen G.
 * White, Ethel Lina
 * White, Hayden
 * White, Henry Kirke (English poet)
 * White, Jack
 * White, Meg
 * White, Patrick (Australian novelist)
 * White, Patrick (American football)
 * White, Ron
 * White, Shaun
 * White, T. H. (Terence Hanbury)
 * White, Tim
 * White, Vanna
 * Whiteaker, John
 * Whitefield, George
 * Whitehead, Alfred North
 * Whitehead, Colson
 * Whitehorn, Katharine
 * Whitehouse, Mary
 * Whiteread, Rachel
 * Witherspoon, John
 * Whitlam, Gough
 * Whitlock, Jason
 * Whitman, Charles Otis
 * Whitman, Christine Todd
 * Whitman, Meg
 * Whitman, Sarah Helen
 * Whitman, Walt
 * Whitmer, David
 * Whittemore, Edward
 * Whittier, John Greenleaf
 * Why the lucky stiff (Jonathan Gillette)
 * Whyte-Melville, George

Wib–Will

 * Wibberley, Leonard
 * Wicomb, Zoe
 * Wiehl, Lis
 * Wieland, Christoph Martin
 * Wiels, Helmin
 * Wiener, Norbert
 * Wieschaus, Eric F.
 * Wiesel, Elie
 * Wiesenthal, Simon
 * Wigglesworth, Smith
 * Wigner, Eugene (E.P.)
 * Wilber, Ken
 * Wilberforce, Samuel
 * Wilberforce, William
 * Wilbur, Ray Lyman
 * Wilbur, Richard
 * Wilby, Peter
 * Wilcken, Ulrich
 * Wilcox, David
 * Williams, Zoe
 * Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
 * Wilczek, Frank
 * Wilde, Kim
 * Wilde, Oscar
 * Wildeblood, Peter
 * Wilder, Billy
 * Wilder, Thornton
 * Wilders, Geert
 * Wiles, Andrew
 * Wilhelm II of Germany
 * Wilkerson, Isabel
 * Wilkes, Maurice
 * Wilkinson, James H.
 * Will, George
 * Willard, Dallas
 * Willard, Fred
 * Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
 * Willem, Jean-Pierre
 * William I, King of England
 * William III, King of England
 * William IV of the United Kingdom
 * William of Occam
 * William, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cambridge
 * Williams, Alan
 * Williams, Bernard
 * Williams, Bert
 * Williams, Emlyn
 * Williams, Hank
 * Williams, Hayley
 * Williams, Helen Maria
 * Williams, Jason Aldine
 * Williams, Jerry
 * Williams, John
 * Williams, JPR
 * Williams, Katt
 * Williams, Kenneth
 * Williams, Lucinda
 * Williams, Mark
 * Williams, Maynard Owen
 * Williams, Paul
 * Williams, Raymond
 * Williams, Robbie
 * Williams, Robin
 * Williams, Roger
 * Williams, Rowan
 * Williams, Rozz
 * Williams, Samm-Art
 * Williams, Serena
 * Williams, Sonny Bill
 * Williams, Stanley
 * Williams, Stephen
 * Williams, Tad
 * Williams, Ted
 * Williams, Tennessee
 * Williams, Theodore Chickering
 * Williams, Vanessa L.
 * Williams, Walter Edward
 * Williams, William Carlos
 * Williamson, Alexander William
 * Williamson, Chris (politician}
 * Williamson, Henry
 * Williamson, Kevin Daniel
 * Williamson, Marianne
 * Williamson, Oliver E.
 * Willis, Bruce
 * Willis, Connie
 * Willis, Ellen
 * Willis, Nathaniel Parker
 * Willis, Wesley
 * Wills, Tom

Wilm–Wit

 * Wilmot, John, 2nd Earl of Rochester
 * Wilmot, John Eardley
 * Wilmut, Ian
 * Wilson, A. N.
 * Wilson, Charles Erwin
 * Wilson, Cintra
 * Wilson, Henry
 * Wilson, Robert Woodrow
 * Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow
 * Wilson, Angus
 * Wilson, August
 * Wilson, Brian
 * Wilson, Charlotte
 * Wilson, Colin
 * Wilson, Don W.
 * Wilson, E. O.
 * Wilson, Edmund
 * Wilson, Eugene S.
 * Wilson, F. Paul
 * Wilson, Flip
 * Wilson, Harold
 * Wilson, Heather
 * Wilson, Ian
 * Wilson, Jacqueline
 * Wilson, James
 * Wilson, Joe (U.S. politician)
 * Wilson, John
 * Wilson, Joseph C.
 * Wilson, Owen
 * Wilson, Robert Anton
 * Wilson, Robert Charles
 * Wilson, Sammy
 * Wilson, William Julius
 * Wilton, Robb
 * Winchell, April
 * Winchell, Walter
 * Windsor, Edith "Edie"
 * Winehouse, Amy
 * Winfrey, Oprah
 * Winget, Larry
 * Winner, Michael
 * Winograd, Terry
 * Winslet, Kate
 * Winslow, Edward
 * Winslow, Octavius
 * Winter, Colin
 * Winter, William (author)
 * Winters, Shelley
 * Winters, Yvor
 * Winterson, Jeanette
 * Winthrop, John
 * Winthrop, Robert Charles
 * Winthrop, Theodore
 * Wintour, Anna
 * Wirfs-Brock, Rebecca
 * Wirth, Christian
 * Wirth, Niklaus
 * Wirtz, W. Willard
 * Wise, Howard
 * Wisliceny, Dieter
 * Wister, Owen
 * Wither, George
 * Witherspoon, Reese
 * Witt, Alicia
 * Witten, Edward
 * Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Wo–Wy

 * Wodehouse, P. G.
 * Wolcot, John
 * Wole Soyinka
 * Wolf, Emil
 * Wolf, Eric
 * Wolfe, Alan
 * Wolfe, Charles
 * Wolfe, Gene
 * Wolfe, George Costello
 * Wolfe, Humbert
 * Wolfe, Thomas
 * Wolfe, Tom
 * Wolff, Christian
 * Wolff, Karl
 * Wolfowitz, Paul
 * Wolfram von Eschenbach
 * Wolfram, Stephen
 * Wolin, Sheldon
 * Wollaston, Sarah
 * Wollstonecraft, Mary
 * Wolsey, Thomas
 * Wonder, Stevie
 * Wong, Ali
 * Wong, Anna May
 * Wonhyo
 * Wood, Anthony (or à Wood)
 * Wood, David (philosopher)
 * Wood, Edward, 1st Earl of Halifax
 * Wood, Elijah
 * Wood, James (critic)
 * Wood, Michael
 * Woodall, Trinny
 * Woodard, Alfre
 * Woodard, Charlayne
 * Woodcock, George
 * Wooden, John
 * Woodford, Jack
 * Woodhouse, Robert
 * Woodhouse, W. J.
 * Woodhull, Victoria
 * Woodley, Lano and
 * Woodman, Marion
 * Woodruff, Wilford
 * Woods, George Lemuel
 * Woods, Harriett
 * Woods, James
 * Woods, Tiger
 * Woodson, Carter
 * Woodward, Bob
 * Woodward, Jack
 * Woodson, Jacqueline
 * Woodworth, Samuel
 * Woolf, Virginia
 * Woollcott, Alexander
 * Woolman, John
 * Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey
 * Wootton, Dan
 * Wordsworth, Dorothy
 * Wordsworth, William
 * Work, Henry Clay
 * Worsthorne, Peregrine
 * Wotton, Henry
 * Wouk, Herman
 * Wozniak, Steve
 * Wren, Christopher
 * Wright, Bonnie
 * Wright, David
 * Wright, Frances
 * Wright, Frank Lloyd
 * Wright, Lawrence
 * Wright, N.T.
 * Wright, Orville
 * Wright, Richard
 * Wright, Robert
 * Wright, Steven
 * Wright, Wilbur
 * Wright, Will
 * Wrong, Michela
 * Wu Den-yih
 * Wu Kung-tsao
 * Wu Peifu
 * Wu, Chien-Shiung
 * Wu, David
 * Wu, Gordon
 * Wulf, William Allan
 * Wurmbrand, Richard
 * Wyatt, Petronella
 * Wyatt, Thomas
 * Wycherley, William
 * Wycliffe, John
 * Wyden, Ron
 * Wylie, Philip
 * Wymore, A. Wayne
 * Wynne Jones, Diana

X

 * X, Malcolm (Malcolm Little)
 * Xenakis, Iannis
 * Xenophanes
 * Xenophon
 * Xenophon, Nick
 * Xi Jinping
 * Xiang Lanxin
 * Xin, Bing
 * Xingjian, Gao
 * Xiyun, Huangbo
 * Xun Zi
 * Xystus I, see Sixtus I
 * Xystus V, see Sixtus V

Y

 * Yadav, Lalu Prasad
 * Yagan
 * Yakan, Fathi
 * Yalom, Irvin D.
 * Yamamoto, Isoroku
 * Yamamoto, Yohji
 * Yamashiro, Danny
 * Yamashita, Tomoyuki
 * Yamauchi, Hiroshi
 * Yamauchi, Wakako
 * Yanagihara, Hanya
 * Yanayev, Gennady
 * Yancey, George
 * Yang Zengxin
 * Yankovic, "Weird Al"
 * Yankwich, Leon R.
 * Yanni
 * Yar'Adua, Umaru
 * Yarranton, Andrew
 * Yashere, Gina
 * Yashinsky, Edward
 * Yassin, Muhyiddin
 * Yat-sen, Sun
 * Yates, Joseph
 * Yates, Reggie
 * Yau, John
 * Ye, Lou
 * Yeames, William Frederick
 * Yeats, William Butler
 * Rabbi Yehuda he-Hasid‎
 * Yellen, Janet
 * Yeltsin, Boris
 * Yemi Osinbajo
 * Yesipova, Anna
 * Yevtushenko, Yevgeny
 * Yew, Chay
 * Yew, Lee Kuan
 * Yezierska, Anzia
 * Yiyun Li
 * Yockey, Francis Parker
 * Yogananda, Paramahansa
 * Yogi, Harbhajan Singh
 * Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh
 * Yolen, Jane
 * Rabbi Yom Tov of Joigny‎
 * Yonai, Mitsumasa
 * Yongzheng Emperor
 * Yoo Byung-eun
 * York, Alvin
 * York, Cromerty
 * Yorke, Thom
 * Yorn, Pete
 * Yosef, Ovadia
 * Youd, Samuel
 * Younesi, Ali
 * Young, Angus
 * Young, Arthur
 * Young, Brigham
 * Young, Damon (writer)
 * Young, Don
 * Young, Edward
 * Young, G. M.
 * Young, Jock
 * Young, Julian
 * Young, Kenny
 * Young, Neil
 * Young, Thomas (scientist)
 * Young, Vince
 * Youngblood, Gene
 * Youngblood, Jack
 * Youngman, Henny
 * Younger, Irving
 * Yourcenar, Marguerite
 * Yourdon, Ed
 * Yourofsky, Gary
 * Yousafzai, Malala


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 * Yo-Yo Ma
 * Yuan Mei
 * Yuan Tengfei
 * Yudkowsky, Eliezer
 * Yukichi, Fukuzawa
 * Yeun, Steven
 * Yune, Rick
 * Yunus, Muhammad
 * Yushchenko, Viktor
 * Yutang, Lin

Za-Ze

 * Zaanen, Jan
 * Zacarias, Karen
 * Zacharek, Stephanie
 * Zachman, John
 * Zacharias, Ravi
 * Zadeh, Lotfi A.
 * Zadora, Pia
 * Zafón, Carlos Ruiz
 * Zagajewski, Adam
 * Zahniser, Howard
 * Zakaria, Fareed
 * Zakharov, Matvei
 * Zalman of Liadi, Shneur
 * Zambrano, Carlos
 * Zamenhof, Ludoviko Lazaro
 * Zamyatin, Yevgeny
 * Zangwill, Israel
 * Zanotti, Francesco Maria
 * Zapata, Emiliano
 * Zapffe, Peter Wessel
 * Zappa, Frank
 * Zardari, Asif Ali
 * Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto
 * Zarif, Mohammad Javad
 * Zastrow, Charles
 * Zawahiri, Ayman
 * Zawinski, Jamie
 * Zátopek, Emil
 * Zayas, Alfred de
 * Zayas, David
 * Zaytsev, Vasily
 * Zé, Tom
 * Zedd, Nick
 * Zeh, H. Dieter
 * Zeihan, Peter
 * Zeilberger, Doron
 * Zeilinger, Anton
 * Zelaya, Manuel
 * Zelazny, Roger
 * Zeldin, Theodore
 * Zelikow, Philip D.
 * Zeman, Karel
 * Zemin, Jiang
 * Zemplén, Győző
 * Zenawi, Meles
 * Zencey, Eric
 * Zenger, John Peter
 * Zeno of Citium
 * Zeno of Elea
 * Zephaniah, Benjamin
 * Zernike, Frits
 * Zerzan, John
 * Zevon, Warren

Zh-Zw

 * Zhdanov, Andrei
 * Zheng Yuanjie
 * Zhengsheng, Yu
 * Zhijun, Zhang
 * Zhiqiang, Pu
 * Zhitomirskiy, Ilya
 * Zhivkov, Todor
 * Zhuangzi (Zhuang Zi; Zhuang Zhou; Chuang Tzu; Chuang Tse)
 * Zhukov, Georgy
 * Zia, Helen
 * Zia-ul-Haq, Muhammad
 * Zidane, Zinedine
 * Ziemkiewicz, Rafał A.
 * Ziglar, Zig
 * Zilsel, Edgar
 * Ziman, John
 * Zimbalist, Andrew
 * Zimbardo, Philip
 * Zimmer, Hans
 * Zimmermann, Klaus F.
 * Zimmermann, Philip
 * Zinck, Kenneth
 * Zindell, David
 * Zingales, Luigi
 * Zinn, Howard
 * Zinni, Anthony
 * Zinovyev, Aleksandr
 * Zinsser, William
 * Zinta, Preity
 * Zinzendorf, Nicolaus Ludwig
 * Zirkle, Conway
 * Žižek, Slavoj
 * Zohar, Danah
 * Zola, Émile
 * Zolak, Scott
 * Zombie, Rob
 * Zonday, Tay
 * Zongtang, Zuo
 * Zoroaster
 * Z-Ro
 * Zuckerberg, Mark
 * Zuckmayer, Carl
 * Zukav, Gary
 * Zulu, Shaka
 * Zuma, Jacob
 * Zunz, Leopold
 * Zuse, Konrad
 * Zusha of Hanipol
 * Zweig, Stefan
 * Zwicky, Fritz