page_title: List of people from Memphis, Tennessee
section_title: W
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Memphis, Tennessee / W
caption_attribution_description: Ida B. Wells Barnett, in a photograph by Mary Garrity from c. 1893. This version has been cropped from the original photographic card to approximately the photo itself (the borders aren't quite straight, so I did the best crop I could manage with the restriction), and has also had dirt and specks removed, and the saturation very slightly tweaked.
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan statistical area, including Crittenden County, Arkansas; DeSoto County, Mississippi; Marshall County, Mississippi; Tate County, Mississippi; Tunica County, Mississippi; Fayette County, Tennessee; Shelby County, Tennessee; and Tipton County, Tennessee.
  This list is in alphabetical order by last name.
context_section_description: Sam Walton — football player
  Teddy Walton — composer, producer, writer and DJ
  Garrett Wang — actor
  Anita Ward — singer and schoolteacher; 1979 number one Billboard Hot 100 single "Ring My Bell"
  Thomas Waterson — police officer who captured Machine Gun Kelly in a Memphis raid in 1933
  Ida B. Wells — civil rights advocate and women's rights advocate
  Junior Wells — musician
  David West — baseball player
  Red West — actor
  Kirk Whalum — musician
  Maurice White — musician, lead singer of Earth, Wind & Fire
  Reggie White — NFL player; began his career with the Memphis Showboats of the USFL
  Bobby Whitlock — musician, keyboardist in Derek and the Dominos
  John Shelton Wilder — politician
  Elliot Williams — NBA player
  Louis Williams — NBA player
  Tennessee Williams — playwright
  Kemmons Wilson — businessman, founder of Holiday Inn
  Mike Wilson — NBA player
  Jesse Winchester — singer/songwriter
  Francis Winkler — NFL player
  Ernest Withers - photojournalist
  Lorenzen Wright — NBA player
caption: Ida B. Wells
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