page_title: List of people from Iowa
section_title: W
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Iowa / W
caption_attribution_description: English: Publicity portrait of John Wayne. Frank Driggs Collection.
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people who were born in or closely associated with the American state of Iowa. People not born in Iowa are marked with §.
context_section_description: Michael Wacha, baseball player
  John Henry Waddell, painter and sculptor
  Hynden Walch, actress
  Nellie Walker, sculptor
  Joseph Frazier Wall, historian
  Henry A. Wallace, politician and presidential candidate
  Marcia Wallace, actress
  Will Walling, actor
  Adam Walsh, athlete and coach
  Chile Walsh, football player, coach, and executive
  Mark Walter, financier, chairman of Los Angeles Dodgers
  Rick Wanamaker, athlete
  Brian Wansink, scientist and professor
  Dedric Ward, football player, coach
  Everett Warner, painter and printmaker
  Kurt Warner, athlete
  Fitz Henry Warren, politician, Civil War general
  Kiersten Warren, actress
  Pierre Watkin, actor
  Watseka, Native Iowan
  James F. Watson, judge
  Tony Watson, athlete
  John Wayne, actor
  James B. Weaver, politician
  Randy Weaver, survivalist involved in Ruby Ridge incident
  Irving Weber, businessman
  Joseph Welch, attorney
  Elmarie Wendel, actress
  Susan Werner, singer-songwriter
  Emily West, singer-songwriter
  Brooks Wheelan, actor, comedian
  Matthew Whitaker, district attorney
  John White, labor leader, president of the United Mine Workers
  Jim Whitesell, basketball coach
  Peggy Whitson, astronaut, scientist
  Casey Wiegmann, athlete
  Doreen Wilber, athlete
  Tom Wilkinson, athlete
  Andy Williams, singer
  Gregory Alan Williams, actor, author
  Roy Lee Williams, labor leader
  William Appleman Williams, historian
  William Williamson, politician
  Meredith Willson, composer
  James Falconer Wilson, politician
  JoAnn Wilson, murdered wife of Canadian politician
  Mortimer Wilson, composer
  Sid Wilson, disc jockey
  Wally Wingert, actor
  Charles E. Winter, politician
  Sidney G. Winter, economist
  Johannes B. Wist, journalist, editor
  William P. Wolf, politician
  Elijah Wood, actor
  Grant Wood, painter
  Joey Woody, athlete
  Hank Worden, actor
  Carleton H. Wright, U.S. Navy Admiral
  Frank Wykoff, athlete
caption: John Wayne
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