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Authors (W)

This is an index of authors whose last names begin with the letter "W". Authors whose names appear in bold are very well-known authors or authors with very well-known works. See also the category Authors-W, which is by nature a (usually) more complete but less organized list.

Wa

• Waals, Johannes Diderik van der (1837 - 1923)
• Wace, Henry (1836 – 1924)
• Waddell, Lawrence Austine (1854 – 1938)
• Waddington, George (1793 – 1869)
• Waddington, John (1810 – 1880)
• Waddington, Mary Alsop King (1833 – 1923)
• Waddington, Samuel Ferrand (1759 – 1829)
• Wade, Claude (1794 - 1861)
• Wade, George Woosung (1858 – 1941)
• Wade, John Francis (1711 – 1786)
• Wadleigh, Bainbridge (1831 – 1891)
• Wadlin, Horace G. (1851 – 1925)
• Wadsworth, Alice (1880 – ?)
• Wadsworth, Eliot (1876 – 1959)
• Wadsworth, Samuel (1860 - ?)
• Wagenaar, Jan (1709–1773)
• Wager, Harold (1862-1929)
• Wagner, Claude (1925 – 1979)
• Wagner, Richard (1813 - 1883)
• Wahab, Robert Alexander (1855 - 1921)
• Wahl, William Henry (1848 – 1909)
• Wahlenberg, Göran (1780 – 1851)
• Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths (1794 – 1847)
• Wait, Daniel Guilford (1789 – 1860)
• Waite, Morrison Remick (1745 – 1807)
• Waite, Arthur Edward (1857 – 1942)
• Wake, William (1657 – 1737)
• Walcott, Charles Doolittle (1850 – 1927)
• Wallcott, Sidney Stevens (1892–1977)
• Walcott, Earle Ashley (1859 – 1931)
• Waldstein, Charles (1856 – 1927)
• Waley, Arthur (1889 – 1966)
• Wales, Jimmy (b. 1966)
• Walford, Cornelius (1827 – 1885)
• Walford, Edward (1823 – 1897)
• Walford, Henry (1824 – 1893)
• Waliszewski, Kazimierz (1849 – 1935)
• Walker, Edward Mewburn (1857-1941)
• Walker, Emery (1851 – 1933)
• Walker, Felix (1753 – 1828)
• Walker, Henry Joseph (1849 – 1918)
• Walker, James (1857 - ?)
• Walker, James (1863 - 1935)
• Walker, Robert John (1801 – 1869)
• Walker, Williston (1860 – 1922)
• Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
• Wallace, David Duncan (1874 – 1951)
• Wallace, Dillon (1863 – 1939)
• Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie (1841 – 1919)
• Wallace, Edgar (1875 – 1932)
• Wallace, Lew (1827 – 1905)
• Wallace, Nathaniel Clarke (1844 – 1901)
• Wallace, Robert (1853 - 1939)
• Wallace, William (1844 – 1897)
• Wallace, William Ross (1819 – 1881)
• Wallace-Johnson, Isaac Theophilus Akunna (1895 – 1965)
• Wallas, Graham (1858 – 1932)
• Waller, Edmund (1606 – 1687)
• Wallis, John Edward Power (1861 - 1946)
• Wallis, Robert Ernest (1820 – 1900)
• Wallis, William Francis (1856 – 1930)
• Walpole, Horace (1717 – 1797)
• Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour (1884 – 1941)
• Walpole, Robert 1st Earl of Orford (1676 – 1745)
• Walpole, Spencer (1830 – 1907)
• Walrond, Theodore (1824 – 1887)
• Walsh, Charles Francis (1877 – 1912)
• Walsh, James Joseph (1865 – 1942)
• Walsh, Rodolfo (1927 – 1977)
• Walshe, Walter Hayle (1812 – 1892)
• Walter, Frank Keller (1874 – 1945)
• Walter, Hannes (1952 – 2004)
• Waltermire, Arthur Beecher (1888 – 1938)
• Walters, Henry Beauchamp (1867 - 1944)
• Walton, Izaak (1593 – 1683)
• Wandrei, Howard (1909 – 1956)
• Wang Xizhi (303 – 361)
• Warburton, Eliot Bartholomew George (1810 – 1852)
• Warburton, Henry (1784 – 1858)
• Ward, Adolphus William (1837 – 1924)
• Ward, Harry Marshall (1854 – 1906)
• Ward, J. B. ( – )
• Ward, James (1843-1925)
• Ward, Joseph George (1856 – 1930)
• Ward, Lester Frank (1841 – 1913)
• Ward, Mary Augusta (1851 – 1920)
• Ward, Nathaniel Bagshaw (1791 – 1868)
• Ward, Nathaniel (1578 – 1652)
• Ward, Ned (1660/1667 – 1731)
• Ward, Robert De Courcy (1867 - 1931)
• Ward, Thomas Humphry (1845 – 1926)
• Ward, Wilfrid (1856 – 1916)
• Ward, William Humble (1867–1932)
• Wardle, Harriet Newell (1875 – 1964)
• Ware, Sir James (1594 – 1666)
• Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge (1851 – 1921)
• Wark, David (1804 – 1905)
• Van de Warker, Ely (1841 – 1910)
• Warming, Eugenius (1841 – 1924)
• Warner, Charles Dudley (1829 – 1900)
• Warner, Francis (1847 – 1926)
• Warner, Sir Frank (1862 - 1930)
• Warner, Sir George Frederic (1845 – 1936)
• Warner, John (b. 1927)
• Warner, Richard (1763-1857)
• Warnock, Amelia Beers (1878 – 1956)
• Warre, Edmond (1837 - 1920)
• Warren, Earl (1891 – 1974)
• Warren, Frederick Edward (1842 - 1930)
• Warren, Mercy Otis (1728 – 1814)
• Warton, Joseph (1722 – 1800)
• Washbourn, John Addison Russell (1841 – 1893)
• Washington, Booker T. (1856 – 1915)
• Washington, Bushrod (1762 – 1829)
• Washington, Martha (1731 – 1802)
• Washington, George (1732 – 1799)
• Wasson, David (1823 – 1887)
• Waterhouse, George Robert (1810 – 1888)
• Waterhouse, Gilbert (1893 – 1916)
• Waterhouse, James (1842 - 1922)
• Waterhouse, Paul (1861 – 1924)
• Waterland, Daniel (1683 – 1740)
• Waterloo, Stanley (1846 – 1913)
• Watkins, Morgan George (1836 – 1911)
• Watson, Alfred Edward Thomas (1849 - 1922)
• Watson, Charles Moore (1844 - 1916)
• Watson, Edward William (1859-1936)
• Watson, Edwin Martin (1883 – 1945)
• Watson, Foster (1860 – 1929)
• Watson, John (1847 – 1939)
• Watson, Sir William (1858 – 1935)
• Watson-Wentworth, Charles (1730 – 1782)
• Watt, Francis (1849 – 1927)
• Watt, Sir George (1851 – 1930)
• Watteville, Hermann Gaston de (1875 - 1963)
• Wattles, Wallace D. (1860 – 1911)
• Watts, Henry Edward (1826-1904)
• Watts, Isaac (1674 – 1748)
• Watts, Philip (1846 -1926)
• Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore (1832 – 1914)
• Waugh, Arthur (1866 – 1943)
• Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Archibald Percival (1883 – 1950)
• Wawanoloath, Alexis (1982 – )
• Wayne, James Moore (1790 – 1867)

We

• Weatherly, Cecil (1869 - ?)
• Weatherly, Frederick Edward (1848 – 1929)
• Weathers, John (1867 - 1928)
• Webb, Alfred (1834 – 1908)
• Webb, Clement Charles Julian (1865 – 1954)
• Webb, William Wilfrid (1858 – 1911)
• Webb, Stephen (1849 – 1933)
• Webber, Charles Edmund (1838 - 1905)
• Weber, Max (1864 – 1920)
• Weber, Wilhelm Eduard (1804 – 1891)
• Webster, Charles Kingsley (1886 - 1961)
• Webster, Daniel (1782 – 1852)
• Webster, Herman Armour (1878 – 1970)
• Webster, Hugh Alexander (1849 - 1926)
• Webster, Jean (1876 – 1916)
• Webster, John (1580 – 1634)
• Webster, Nesta Helen (1876 – 1960)
• Webster, Noah (1758 – 1843)
• Webster, Richard (1878-1965)
• Webster, Thomas (1773 – 1844)
• Webster, Wentworth (1829 – 1907)
• Wecksell, Josef Julius (1838 – 1907)
• Wedd, Charles Bertie (1868 - 1945)
• Wedmore, Edmund Tolson (1847 – 1920)
• Wedmore, Frederick (1844 – 1921)
• Weever, John (1576 – 1632)
• Wehle, Theodore (1838 – 1921)
• Weidemeyer, John William (1819 – 1896)
• Weidenreich, Franz (1873 – 1948)
• Weir, Robert Stanley (1856 – 1926)
• Weir, Walter (1929 – 1985)
• Weiss, George Henry (1898 – 1946)
• Weiss, John (1818 – 1879)
• Welch, Charles (1848 – 1924)
• Weld, Charles Richard (1813 – 1869)
• Weldon, John Wesley (1809 – 1885)
• Weldon, Walter Frank Raphael (1860 – 1906)
• Wellcome, Henry Solomon (1853 – 1936)
• Welles, Sumner (1892 – 1961)
• Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769 – 1852)
• Wellhausen, Julius (1844 – 1918)
• Welling, James Clarke (1825 – 1894)
• Wells, Benjamin Willis (1856 – 1923)
• Wells, Charles Jeremiah (1798 – 1879)
• Wells, Daniel H. (1814 – 1891)
• Wells, David Ames (1828 – 1898)
• Wells, H. G. (1866 – 1946)
• Welsh, Charles (1850 – 1914)
• Welsh, George Arthur (1896 – 1965)
• Welsh, Herbert (1851 – 1941)
• Wendell, Barrett (1855 – 1921)
• Wenley, Robert Mark (1861 – 1929)
• Wentworth, William Charles (1790 – 1872)
• Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Thomas (1593 – 1641)
• Wentworth-Sheilds, Wentworth Francis (1867 – 1944)
• van der Werff, Pieter Adriaanszoon (1529–1604‏)
• Wernicke, Carl (1845–1905)
• Wertenbaker, Green Peyton (1907 – 1968)
• Wertheimer, Eduard von (1848 – 1930)
• Wertheimer, Max (1880 – 1943)
• Wesley, Charles (1707 – 1788)
• Wesley, John (1703 – 1791)
• Wesley, Samuel (1662 – 1735)
• Wesley, William Henry (1841 – 1922)
• Wessel, Horst (1907 – 1930)
• West, Edward William (1824 – 1905)
• West, George Stephen (1876 – 1919)
• West, Mae (1893 – 1980)
• West, Nathanael (1903 – 1940)
• West, M. B. (1879 – 1953)
• West, Paul (1871 – 1918)
• Westall, William (1781 – 1850)
• Westlake, John (1828 – 1913)
• Weston, Jessie Laidlay (1850 – 1928)
• Weston, Robert Patrick (1878 – 1936)
• Westergaard, Harald Ludvig (1853 – 1936)
• Wetherald, Agnes Ethelwyn (1857 – 1940)
• Weyman, Stanley John (1855 – 1928)

Wh

• Wharton, Edith (1862 – 1937)
• Whately, Richard (1787 – 1863)
• Wheatley, Henry Benjamin (1838 – 1917)
• Wheatley, Phillis (1753? – 1784)
• Wheatstone, Charles (1802 – 1875)
• Wheeler, Charles Gardner (1855 – 1946)
• Wheeler, Everett Pepperrell (1840 – 1925)
• Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini (1850 – 1898)
• Wheeler, Stephen Edward (1854 – 1937)
• Wherry, Elwood Morris (1843 – 1927)
• Whetham, William Cecil Dampier (1867 - 1952)
• Whewell, William (1794 – 1866)
• Whibley, Charles (1859 – 1930)
• Whichcote, Benjamin (1609 – 1683)
• Whinery, Charles Crawford (1878 – ?)
• Whinfield, Edward Henry (1836 – 1922)
• Whiston, Robert (1808 – 1895)
• White, Adam (1817 – 1879)
• White, Andrew Dickson (1832 – 1918)
• White, Byron Raymond (1916 – 2002)
• White, Charles (1845–1922)
• White, Charles Abiathar (1826 – 1910)
• White, Charles Harold Evelyn (1851 – 1938)
• White, Jr., Edward Douglass (1845 – 1921)
• White, Edward Lucas (1866 – 1934)
• White, Ellen G. (1827 – 1915)
• White, Frances Emily (1832 – 1903)
• White, George (1872 – 1953)
• White, Gilbert (1720 – 1793)
• White, Henry Kirke (1785 – 1806)
• White, Sir Herbert Thirkell (1855 – 1931)
• White, Horace (1834 – 1916)
• White, John Forbes (1831 - 1904)
• White, Laura Amanda (1882 – 1948)
• Ryan White (1971 – 1990)
• White, Stewart Edward (1873 – 1946)
• White, Thomas Willis (1788 – 1843)
• White, William Alanson (1870 – 1937)
• White, William Allen (1868 – 1944)
• Whitefield, George (1714 – 1770)
• Whitehead, Alfred North (1861 – 1947)
• Whitehouse, Frederick Cope (1842 – 1911)
• Whitehouse, Owen Charles (1849 – 1916)
• Whitfeld, William Henry (1856 – ?)
• Whiting, Richard A. (1891 – 1938)
• Whiting, William (1825 – 1878)
• Whitman, Sarah Helen (1803 – 1878)
• Whitman, Walt (1819 – 1892)
• Whitmer, David (1805 – 1888)
• Whitmer, John (1802 – 1878)
• Whitney, Anne (1821 – 1915)
• Whitney, Helen Hay (1876 – 1944)
• Whitney, William Dwight (1827 – 1894)
• Whiton, James Maurice
• Whittaker, Charles Evans (1901 – 1973)
• Whittaker, Sir Edmund Taylor (1873 – 1956)
• Whittaker, Thomas (1856 – 1935)
• Whittier, Charles H. (1930 – 1991)
• Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807 – 1892)
• Whittington, Harry Blackmore (1916–2010)
• Whittle, Daniel Webster (1840 – 1901)
• Whitworth, Joseph (1803 — 1887)
• Whymper, Edward (1840 – 1911)
• Whyte, Frederic William (1867 – 1941)
• Whyte-Melville, George John (1821 – 1878)

Wi

• Wickham, John Clements (1798 – 1864)
• Widdemer, Margaret (1884 – 1978)
• Wiedemann, Gustav Heinrich (1826 – 1899)
• Wiener, Leo (1862 – 1939)
• Wiener, Norbert (1894 – 1964)
• Wier, Jeanne Elizabeth (1870 – 1950)
• Wieser, Friedrich von (1851 – 1926)
• Wiesner, Ljubo (1885 – 1951)
• Wiggin, Kate Douglas (1856 – 1923)
• Wilberforce, William (1759 – 1833)
• Wilbur, Ray Lyman (1875 – 1949)
• Wilcox Cadmus Marcellus (1824 – 1890)
• Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1850 – 1919)
• Wilcox, Marrion (1858 – 1926)
• Wilcox, Walter Dwight (1869 – 1949)
• Wilde, Oscar (1854 – 1900)
• Wilde, Percival (1887 – 1953)
• Wilde, William Robert Wills (1815 – 1876)
• Wilder, Burt Green (1841 – 1925)
• Wiley, Edwin
• Wiley, George M.
• Wiley, Harvey Washington (1844 – 1930)
• Wilhelm, Richard (1873 – 1930)
• Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880–1962)
• Wilkes, John (1727 – 1797)
• Wilkin, Martin Hood (1832 – 1904)
• Wilkins, Augustus Samuel (1843 - 1905)
• Wilkins, Harriet Annie (1829 – 1888)
• Wilkins, John (1614 – 1672)
• Wilkinson, (Henry) Spenser (1853 - 1937)
• Wilkinson, James (1757 - 1825)
• Wilkinson, James John Garth (1812 – 1899)
• Wilkinson, John Gardiner (1797 – 1875)
• Wilkinson, Norman (1878 – 1971)
• Wilkinson, Walter Lightowler (? – 1917)
• Wilks, Samuel (1824 – 1911)
• Willcocks, Mary Patricia (1869–c. 1950)
• Willdenow, Carl Ludwig (1765 – 1812)
• Willey, Arthur (1867 – 1942)
• William II of Orange (1626–1650)
• William I of England (c.1028–1087)
• William the Silent (1533–1584)
• Williams, Aneurin (1859 - 1924)
• Williams, Archibald (1871–1934)
• Williams, Charles (1886 – 1945)
• Williams, Edward (1747 – 1826)
• Williams, Edward Leader (1828 - 1910)
• Williams, George (1814 – 1878)
• Williams, George Valentine (1883 – 1946)
• Williams, Helen Maria (1762 – 1827)
• Williams, Henry Herbert (1872 - 1961)
• Williams, Henry Smith (1863 – 1943)
• Williams, James (1851 – 1911)
• Williams, Jesse Lynch (1871 – 1929)
• Williams, John Sharp (1854 – 1932)
• Williams, Leonard Llewelyn Bulkeley (1861 – 1939)
• Williams, Margery (1881 – 1944)
• Williams, Robert (1863 – 1938)
• Williams, Sam (b. 1969)
• Williams, Sarah (1837 – 1868)
• Williams, Spencer (1889 – 1965)
• Williams, Tennessee (1911 – 1983)
• Williams, Thomas (1815 – 1891)
• Williams, Thomas (1847 – 1913)
• Williams, Thomas Hudson (1873 - 1961)
• Williams, William Carlos (1883 – 1963)
• Williams, William Mattieu (1820 – 1892)
• Williams, William Retlaw Jefferson (1863 – 1944)
• Williamson, Benjamin (1827 – 1916)
• Williamson, Charles Norris (1859 – 1920)
• Williamson, George Charles (1858 – 1942)
• Williamson, William Crawford (1819 – 1895)
• Willink, Henry George (1851 – 1938)
• Willis, Edward (1835 – 1891)
• Willis, Henry Parker (1874 – 1937)
• Willis, Nathaniel Parker (1806 – 1867)
• Willis, Robert (1800 – 1875)
• Willis, Robert (1799 – 1878)
• Willison, John Stephen (1856 - 1927)
• Willmann, Otto Philipp Gustav (1839 – 1920)
• Willoughby, Edward Francis (1840 – 1906)
• Wills, Albert P. (1873 – 1937)
• Wills, James (1790 – 1868)
• Willson, Henry Beckles (1869 - 1942)
• Wilson, Alexander (1766 – 1813)
• Wilson, Alexander (1714 – 1786)
• Wilson, Alice (1881 – 1964)
• Wilson, Augusta Jane Evans (1835 – 1909)
• Wilson, Cairine (1885 – 1962)
• Wilson, Charles H. (1917 – 1984)
• Wilson, Charles William (1836-1897)
• Wilson, Edward Adrian (1872 – 1912)
• Wilson, Edward E. (1867 – 1952)
• Wilson, Frank J. (1887 – 1970)
• Wilson, Harriet E. (1825 – 1900)
• Wilson, Harold (1916 – 1995)
• Wilson, Harry Leon (1867 – 1939)
• Wilson, Herbert Wrigley (1866 – 1940)
• Wilson, Horace Hayman (1786 – 1860)
• Wilson, Horace John (1882 – 1972)
• Wilson, James (1742 – 1798)
• Wilson, James Grant (1832 – 1914)
• Wilson, James Vernon (? – 1980)
• Wilson, Robert
• Wilson, Robert McNair (1882 – 1963)
• Wilson, Sarah (1828 – 1915)
• Wilson, Thomas (1663 – 1755)
• Wilson, Thomas (1773 – 1858)
• Wilson, Thomas Braidwood (1792 – 1843)
• Willson, Thomas Edgar (1846 – 1901)
• Wilson, Uriah (1841 – 1918)
• Wilson, Woodrow (1856 – 1924)
• Wimmer, Christian Friedrich Heinrich (1803 – 1868)
• Winch, Nathaniel John (1768 – 1839)
• Winchell, Alexander (1824 – 1891)
• Winchell, Newton Horace (1839 – 1914)
• Winchester, Caleb Thomas (1847 – 1920)
• Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan (1858 – 1929)
• Winkworth, Catherine (1827 – 1878)
• Winlock, William Crawford (1859 – 1896)
• Winn, Ross (1871 – 1912)
• Winner, Septimus (1827 – 1902)
• Winship, George Parker (1872 – 1952)
• Winslow, Edward (1595 – 1655)
• Winslow, Erving (1839 – 1922)
• Winslow, Francis (1818 – 1862)
• Winslow, Helen Maria (1851 – 1938)
• Winslow, John Bradley (1851 – 1920)
• Winter, William (1836 – 1917)
• Winters, Robert (1910 – 1969)
• Winterbotham, William (1763 - 1829)
• Winthrop, John (1587/8 – 1649)
• Winthrop, Robert Charles (1809 – 1894)
• Winthrop, Robert Charles, Jr. (1834 – 1905)
• Winthrop, Theodore (1828 – 1861)
• Wirgman, Theodor Blake (1848–1925)
• Wirgman, Thomas (17xx-18xx)
• Wise, Stephen Samuel (1875 – 1959)
• Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick Stephen (1802 – 1865)
• Wister, Owen (1860 – 1938)
• Witham, Henry (1779 – 1844)
• Wither, George (1588 – 1667)
• Withering, William (1741 – 1799)
• Withers, Hartley (1867 – 1950)
• Withers, Henry Livingston (1864–1902)
• Withington, Charles Francis (1852 – 1917)
• Withrow, William Henry (1839 – 1908)
• Witt, John George (1836 – 1906)
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889 – 1951)

Wo

• Wodehouse, Ernest Armine (1879-1936)
• Wodehouse, P. G. (1881 – 1975)
• Wolcot, John (1738 – 1819)
• Wolf, Emma (1865 – 1932)
• Wolf, Lucien (1857 – 1930)
• Wolfe, Charles (1757 – 1827)
• Wolfe, James (1727 – 1759)
• Wolff, Henry Drummond (1830 - 1908)
• Woll, Fritz Wilhelm (1865 – 1922)
• Wollaston, Sir Arthur Naylor (1842 – 1922)
• Wollaston, John Thomas Burton (1841 – 1911)
• Wollaston, William Hyde (1766 – 1828)
• Wolleb, Johannes (1589–1629)
• Wollheim, Donald Allen (1914 – 1990)
• Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759 – 1797)
• Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, Garnet Joseph (1833 – 1913)
• Wood, Ellen (1814 – 1887)
• Wood, Eugene (1860 – 1923)
• Wood, Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn (1838 - 1919)
• Wood, Henry Edward (1841 – 1910)
• Wood, Sir Henry Trueman Wright (1845 – 1929)
• Wood, Leonard (1860 – 1927)
• Wood, William Charles Henry (1864 - 1947)
• Woodberry, George Edward (1855 – 1930)
• Woodbury, Levi (1789 – 1851)
• Woodcock, Harold Mellor (1879 - 1951)
• Woodhead, German Sims (1855 - 1921)
• Woodhouse, Samuel Washington (1821 – 1904)
• Woodhouse, Thomas (1862 - 1933)
• Woodhouse, William John (1866 – 1937)
• Woodrow, Nancy Mann Waddel (1870 – 1935)
• Woodruff, Wilford (1807 – 1898)
• Woods, William Burnham (1824 – 1887)
• Woodward, Arthur Smith (1964-1944)
• Woodward, Bernard Barham (1853 – 1930)
• Woodward, Horace Bolingbroke (1848 – 1914)
• Woodward, Thomas Jenkinson (1745 – 1820)
• Woolf, Edgar Allan (1881 – 1948)
• Woolf, Philip (1848 – 1903)
• Woolf, Virginia (1882 – 1941)
• Woolhouse, Wesley Stoker Barker (1809 – 1893)
• Woolley, Mary Emma (1863 – 1947)
• Woolson, Constance Fenimore (1840 – 1894)
• Woolsey, Chauncey Woolsey (1835 - 1905)
• Woolsey, Theodore Salisbury (1852 – 1929)
• Worcester, Dean Conant (1866 – 1924)
• Worcester, Joseph Emerson (1784 – 1865)
• Wordsworth, Christopher (1807 – 1855)
• Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771 – 1855)
• Wordsworth, John (1843 – 1911)
• Wordsworth, William (1770 – 1850)
• Work, Henry Clay (1832 - 1884)
• Works, George Alan (1877 – 1957)
• Wormeley, Katherine Prescott (1830 – 1908)
• Wornum, Ralph Nicholson (1812 - 1877)
• Worthen, Amos Henry (1813–1888)
• Worthington, Arthur Mason (1852 – 1916)
• Wotton, Henry (1568 – 1639)

Wr

• Wray, Fitzwater (1867 – 1938)
• Wren, Percival Christopher (1875 – 1941)
• Wright, Charles Theodore Hagberg (1862 – 1940)
• Wright, Elizur (1804 – 1885)
• Wright, Frances (1795 – 1852)
• Wright, Harold Bell (1872 – 1944)
• Wright, Jacob William (1871 – 1950)
• Wright, Louise Wigfall (1846 – 1915)
• Wright, Mabel Osgood (1859 – 1934)
• Wright, Orville (1871 – 1948)
• Wright, Thomas (1810 – 1877)
• Wright, Ernest Vincent (1871 – 1939)
• Wright, William (1853 – 1926)
• Wright, William Aldis (1831 – 1914)
• Wright, Willard (1888 – 1939)
• Wrong, George MacKinnon (1860 – 1948)
• Wroth, Lady Mary (1587 – 1652)
• Wroth, Warwick William (1858 – 1911)

Wu

• Wundt, Wilhelm (1832 – 1920)

Wy

• Wyatt, Thomas (1503 – 1542)
• Wycherley, William (1640 – 1716)
• Wyden, Ron (1949 - )
• Wyeth, John A. (? - )
• Wylie, Elinor (1885 – 1928)
• Wylie, Henry (1844 - 1918)
• Wylie, Ida Alexa Ross (1885 – 1959)
• Wylie, W. Gill (? - )
• Wyndham, Henry Penruddocke (1736 – 1819)
• Wynkoop, Edward Wanshear (1836–1891)
• Wyse, Charlie (? - )
• Wyss, Johann David (1743–1818)