List of people by name, W–Z
Subset of List of people by name
(Anonymous) to Azzopardi - Ba to Byron - C to Cyrus
Dabashi to Dzagoev - Eagleburger to Fyleman - Gabirol to Gyllenhaal
Ha'am to Hywel - Iacocca to Juyi - Ka'bi to Kyuma
Laar to Lytton - M'Cheyne to Myss - Nabokov to Özal
Paasikivi to Pythagoras - Qaradawi to Ryōkan - Saadi to Szymborska
T to Vygotsky - Waagen to Zwicky - Collaborations
Dabashi to Dzagoev - Eagleburger to Fyleman - Gabirol to Gyllenhaal
Ha'am to Hywel - Iacocca to Juyi - Ka'bi to Kyuma
Laar to Lytton - M'Cheyne to Myss - Nabokov to Özal
Paasikivi to Pythagoras - Qaradawi to Ryōkan - Saadi to Szymborska
T to Vygotsky - Waagen to Zwicky - Collaborations
W
Waa–Waq
- Waagen, Gustav Friedrich
- Waberi, Abdourahman
- Wachirabunjong, Pongpat
- Wade, J. Augustine
- Wadewitz, Adrianne
- 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, 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
- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
- Wilczek, Frank
- Wilde, Kim
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wildeblood, Peter
- Wilder, Billy
- Wilder, Thornton
- Wilders, Geert
- Wilentz, Sean
- 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
- Williams, Zoe
- 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
- Wood, Victoria
- Woodall, Trinny
- Woodard, Alfre
- Woodard, Charlayne
- Woodcock, George
- Wooden, John
- Woodford, Jack
- Woodhouse, Robert
- Woodhouse, W. J.
- Woodhull, Victoria
- Woodley, Lano and
- Woodley, Shailene
- 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
- 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
- Yo-Yo Ma
- Yuan Mei
- Yuan Tengfei
- Yudkowsky, Eliezer
- Yukichi, Fukuzawa
- Yeun, Steven
- Yune, Rick
- Yunus, Muhammad
- Yushchenko, Viktor
- Yutang, Lin
Z
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