# List of people by name, W–Z

Subset of List of people by name

## 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