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- Walpole, Robert Walpole, Sir Robert Walpole, First Earl of Orford
Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676-1745) - Walpole, Horace Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford
English writer and historian - Walter, Bruno Walter
German conductor (1876-1962) - Walton, E. T. S. Walton, Ernest Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995) - Walton, Izaak Walton
English writer remember for his treatise on fishing (1593-1683) - Walton, William Walton, Sir William Walton, Sir William Turner Walton
English composer (1902-1983) - Wanamaker, John Wanamaker
United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922) - Warburg, Aby Warburg, Aby Moritz Warburg
German art historian (1866-1929) - Warburg, Otto Heinrich Warburg
German biochemist who pioneered the use of chemical techniques in biological investigations - Ward, Montgomery Ward, Aaron Montgomery Ward
United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913) - Ward, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold Ward
English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920) - Ward, Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
English economist and conservationist (1914-1981) - Warhol, Andy Warhol
United States artist who was a leader of the Pop Art movement (1930-1987) - Warner, Charles Dudley Warner
United States filmmaker who with his brothers founded the movie studio that produced the first talking picture (1881-1958) - Warren, Earl Warren
United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1891-1974) - Warren, Robert Penn Warren
United States writer and poet (1905-1989) - Warwick, Earl of Warwick, Richard Neville, Kingmaker
English statesman - Washington, George Washington, President Washington
1st President of the United States - Washington, Booker T. Washington, Booker Taliaferro Washington
United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915) - Wassermann, August von Wassermann
German bacteriologist who developed a diagnostic test for syphilis (1866-1925) - Waters, Ethel Waters
United States actress and singer (1896-1977) - Watson, James Watson, James Dewey Watson
United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928) - Watson, John Broadus Watson
United States psychologist considered the founder of behavioristic psychology (1878-1958) - Watson, Thomas Augustus Watson
United States telephone engineer who assisted Alexander Graham Bell in his experiments (1854-1934) - Watt, James Watt
Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819) - Watteau, Jean Antoine Watteau
French painter (1684-1721) - Watts, Isaac Watts
English poet and theologian (1674-1748) - Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Arthur Saint John Waugh
English author of satirical novels (1903-1966) - Wavell, Archibald Percival Wavell, First Earl Wavell
British field marshal in North Africa in World War II - Wayne, Anthony Wayne, Mad Anthony Wayne
American general during the American Revolution (1745-1796) - Wayne, John Wayne, Duke Wayne
United States film actor who played tough heroes (1907-1979) - Webb, Sidney Webb, Sidney James Webb, First Baron Passfield
English sociologist and economist and a central member of the Fabian Society (1859-1947) - Webb, Beatrice Webb, Martha Beatrice Potter Webb
English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943) - Weber, E. H. Weber, Ernst Heinrich Weber
German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878) - Weber, Carl Maria von Weber, Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber
German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826) - Weber, Max Weber
German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in sociology (1864-1920) - Weber, Max Weber
United States abstract painter (born in Russia) (1881-1961) - Weber, Wilhelm Eduard Weber
German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber - Webster, Noah Webster
United States lexicographer (1758-1843) - Webster, Daniel Webster
United States politician and orator (1782-1817) - Webster, John Webster
English playwright (1580-1625) - Wedgwood, Josiah Wedgwood
English potter (1730-1795) - Wegener, Alfred Lothar Wegener
German geophysicist who proposed the theory of continental drift (1880-1930) - Weil, Andre Weil
United States mathematician (born in France) (1906-1998) - Weil, Simone Weil
French philosopher (1909-1943) - Weill, Kurt Weill
German composer - Weinberg, Steven Weinberg
United States theoretical physicist (born in 1933) - Weismann, August Friedrich Leopold Weismann
German biologist who was one of the founders of modern genetics - Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann, Chaim Azriel Weizmann
Israeli statesman who persuaded the United States to recognize the new state of Israel and became its first president (1874-1952) - Weld, Theodore Dwight Weld
United States abolitionist (1803-1895) - Welles, Orson Welles, George Orson Welles
United States actor and filmmaker (1915-1985) - Wellington, Duke of Wellington, First Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Iron Duke
British general and statesman - Wells, H. G. Wells, Herbert George Wells
prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels - Welty, Eudora Welty
United States writer about rural southern life (1909-2001) - Werfel, Franz Werfel
United States writer (1890-1945) - Wernicke, Karl Wernicke
German neurologist best known for his studies of aphasia (1848-1905) - Wesley, John Wesley
English clergyman and founder of Methodism (1703-1791) - Wesley, Charles Wesley
English clergyman and brother of John Wesley who wrote many hymns (1707-1788) - West, Benjamin West
English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820) - Mae West, West
United States film actress (1892-1980) - West, Rebecca West, Dame Rebecca West, Cicily Isabel Fairfield
British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983) - Westinghouse, George Westinghouse
United States inventor and manufacturer (1846-1914) - Weston, Edward Weston
United States photographer(1886-1958) - Wharton, Edith Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
United States novelist (1862-1937) - Wheatley, Phillis Wheatley
American poet (born in Africa) who was the first recognized Black writer in America (1753-1784) - Wheatstone, Sir Charles Wheatstone
English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875) - Wheeler, Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler
Scottish archaeologist (1890-1976) - Whistler, James Abbott McNeill Whistler
United States painter (1834-1903) - White, Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson White
United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918) - White, E. B. White, Elwyn Brooks White
United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985) - White, Stanford White
United States architect (1853-1906) - White, T. H. White, Theodore Harold White
United States political journalist (1915-1986) - White, Patrick White, Patrick Victor Martindale White
Australian writer (1912-1990) - White, Edward White, Edward D. White, Edward Douglas White Jr.
United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft - Whitehead, Alfred North Whitehead
English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Bertrand Russell (1861-1947) - Whitman, Marcus Whitman
United States frontier missionary who established a post in Oregon where Christianity and schooling and medicine were available to Native Americans (1802-1847) - Whitman, Walt Whitman
United States poet who celebrated the greatness of America (1819-1892) - Whitney, Eli Whitney
United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825) - Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier
United States poet best known for his nostalgic poems about New England (1807-1892) - Whittle, Frank Whittle, Sir Frank Whittle
English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996) - Wiener, Norbert Wiener
United States mathematician and founder of cybernetics (1894-1964) - Wiesel, Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel
United States writer (born in Romania) who survived Nazi concentration camps and is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust (born in 1928) - Wiesenthal, Samuel Wiesenthal
Austrian investigator of Nazi war crimes (born in 1908) - Wigner, Eugene Wigner, Eugene Paul Wigner
United States physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on the structure of the atom and its nucleus (1902-1995) - Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Irish writer and wit (1854-1900) - Wilder, Billy Wilder, Samuel Wilder
United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002) - Wilder, Thornton Wilder, Thornton Niven Wilder
United States writer and dramatist (1897-1975) - Wilhelm II, Kaiser Wilhelm, Kaiser Bill
grandson of Queen Victoria and Kaiser of Germany from 1888 to 1918 - Wilkes, Charles Wilkes
United States explorer of Antarctica (1798-1877) - Wilkes, John Wilkes
English reformer who published attacks on George III and supported the rights of the American colonists (1727-1797) - Wilkins, Maurice Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
English biochemist who helped discover the structure of DNA (1916-2004) - Wilkins, George Hubert Wilkins
Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by airplane (1888-1958) - Wilkins, Roy Wilkins
United States civil rights leader (1901-1981) - Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
English chemist honored for his research on pollutants in car exhausts (born in 1921) - Willard, Emma Hart Willard
United States educator who was an early campaigner for higher education for women (1787-1870) - Willard, Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard
United States advocate of temperance and women's suffrage (1839-1898) - Willebrand, von Willebrand, E. A. von Willebrand, Erik von Willebrand, Erik Adolf von Willebrand
Finnish physician who first described vascular hemophilia (1870-1949) - William I, William the Conqueror
duke of Normandy who led the Norman invasion of England and became the first Norman to be King of England - William II, William Rufus
the second son of William the Conqueror who succeeded him as King of England (1056-1100) - William III, William of Orange
King of England and Scotland and Ireland - William IV, Sailor King
King of England and Ireland - Williams, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Lanier Williams
United States playwright (1911-1983) - Williams, Roger Williams
English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism - Williams, Ted Williams, Theodore Samuel Williams
United States baseball player noted as a hitter (1918-2002) - Williams, William Carlos Williams
United States poet (1883-1963) - Williams, Sir Bernard Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen Williams
English philosopher credited with reviving the field of moral philosophy (1929-2003) - Williams, Hank Williams, Hiram Williams, Hiram King Williams
United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953) - Willis, Thomas Willis
English physician who was a pioneer in the study of the brain (1621-1675) - Wilmut, Ian Wilmut
English geneticist who succeeded in cloning a sheep from a cell from an adult ewe (born in 1944) - Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, President Wilson
28th President of the United States - Wilson, Edmund Wilson
United States literary critic (1895-1972) - Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Scottish physicist who invented the cloud chamber (1869-1959) - Wilson, E. O. Wilson, Edward Osborne Wilson
United States entomologist who has generalized from social insects to other animals including humans (born in 1929) - Wilson, James Wilson
American Revolutionary leader who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence (1742-1798) - Wilson, John Tuzo Wilson
Canadian geophysicist who was a pioneer in the study of plate tectonics (1908-1993) - Wilson, Robert Woodrow Wilson
United States physicist honored for his work on cosmic microwave radiation (born in 1918) - Wilson, Alexander Wilson
Scottish ornithologist in the United States (1766-1813) - Wilson, Sir Angus Wilson, Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson
English writer of novels and short stories (1913-1991) - Wilson, Harriet Wilson
author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (1808-1870) - Winckelmann, Johann Winckelmann, Johann Joachim Winckelmann
German archaeologist and art historian said to be the father of archaeology (1717-1768) - Windaus, Adolf Windaus
German chemist who studied steroids and cholesterol and discovered histamine (1876-1959) - Winslow, Edward Winslow
English colonial administrator who traveled to America on the Mayflower and served as the first governor of the Plymouth Colony (1595-1655) - Wise, Isaac Mayer Wise
United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900) - Wise, Stephen Samuel Wise
United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949) - Wister, Owen Wister
United States writer (1860-1938) - Witherspoon, John Witherspoon
American Revolutionary leader and educator (born in Scotland) who signed of the Declaration of Independence and was president of the college that became Princeton University (1723-1794) - Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johan Wittgenstein
British philosopher born in Austria - Wodehouse, P. G. Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
English writer known for his humorous novels and stories (1881-1975) - Wolf, Friedrich August Wolf
German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824) - Wolf, Hugo Wolf
Austrian composer (1860-1903) - Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Clayton Wolfe
United States writer best known for his autobiographical novels (1900-1938) - Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe, Tom Wolfe, Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.
United States writer who has written extensively on American culture (born in 1931) - Wolff, Kaspar Friedrich Wolff
German anatomist (1733-1794) - Wollaston, William Hyde Wollaston
English chemist and physicist who discovered palladium and rhodium and demonstrated that static and current electricity are the same (1766-1828) - Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women - Wood, Grant Wood
United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942) - Wood, Mrs. Henry Wood, Ellen Price Wood
English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887) - Wood, Sir Henry Wood, Sir Henry Joseph Wood
English conductor (1869-1944) - Wood, Natalie Wood
United States film actress (1938-1981) - Woodbury, Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury
United States social economist (1876-1933) - Woodhull, Victoria Clafin Woodhull
United States advocate of women's suffrage - Woodward, Bob Woodward, Robert Woodward, Robert Burns Woodward
United States chemist honored for synthesizing complex organic compounds (1917-1979) - Woodward, C. Vann Woodward, Comer Vann Woodward
United States historian (1908-1999) - Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf
English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue - Woollcott, Alexander Woollcott
United States drama critic and journalist (1887-1943) - Woolley, Sir Leonard Woolley, Sir Charles Leonard Woolley
English archaeologist who supervised the excavations at Ur (1880-1960) - Woolworth, Frank Winfield Woolworth
United States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919) - Worcester, Joseph Emerson Worcester
United States lexicographer who was accused of plagiarism by Noah Webster (1784-1865) - Wordsworth, William Wordsworth
a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850) - Worth, Charles Frederick Worth
French couturier (born in England) regarded as the founder of Parisian haute couture - Wouk, Herman Wouk
United States writer (born in 1915) - Wren, Sir Christopher Wren
English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723) - Wright, Frances Wright, Fanny Wright
United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852) - Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright
influential United States architect (1869-1959) - Wright, Orville Wright
United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948) - Wright, Wilbur Wright
United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912) - Wright, Richard Wright
United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960) - Wright, Willard Huntington Wright, S. S. Van Dine
United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939) - Wurlitzer, Rudolf Wurlitzer
United States businessman (born in German) who founded a company to make pipe organs (1831-1914) - Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Wyat, Sir Thomas Wyat
English poet who introduced the sonnet form to English literature (1503-1542) - Wyatt, James Wyatt
English architect (1746-1813) - Wycherley, William Wycherley
English playwright noted for his humorous and satirical plays (1640-1716) - Wycliffe, John Wycliffe, Wickliffe, John Wickliffe, Wyclif, John Wyclif, Wiclif, John Wiclif
English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384) - Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth
United States painter (born in 1917) - Wykeham, William of Wykeham
English prelate and statesman - Wyler, William Wyler
United States filmmaker (1902-1981) - Wylie, Elinor Morton Hoyt Wylie
United States poet (1885-1928) - Wynette, Tammy Wynette, Tammy Wynetter Pugh
United States country singer (1942-1998) - Wyszynski, Stefan Wyszynski
Polish prelate who persuaded the Soviet to allow greater religious freedom in Poland (1901-1981) - Xavier, Saint Francis Xavier
Spanish missionary and Jesuit who establish missionaries in Japan and Ceylon and the East Indies (1506-1552) - Xenophanes
Greek philosopher (560-478 BC) - Xenophon
Greek general and historian - Xerxes I, Xerxes the Great
king of Persia who led a vast army against Greece and won the battle of Thermopylae but was eventually defeated (519-465 BC) - Yale, Elihu Yale
English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721) - Yamamoto, Isoroku Yamamoto
Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (1884-1943) - Yamani, Ahmed Zoki Yamani
Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930) - Yang Chen Ning, Chen N. Yang
United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Tsung Dao Lee in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1922) - Yastrzemski, Carl Yastrzemski
United States baseball player (born in 1939) - Yeats, William Butler Yeats, W. B. Yeats
Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939) - Yerkes, Robert M. Yerkes, Robert Mearns Yerkes
United States psychologist who studied the intelligence of primates (1876-1956) - Yersin, Alexandre Yersin, Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin
French bacteriologist born in Switzerland - Yevtushenko, Yevgeni Yevtushenko, Yevgeni Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
Russian poet who expressed the feelings of the post-Stalinist generation (born in 1933) - Young, Brigham Young
United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith - Young, Cy Young, Danton True Young
United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955) - Young, Edward Young
English poet (1683-1765) - Young, Pres Young, Lester Willis Young
United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959) - Young, Thomas Young
British physicist and Egyptologist - Young, Whitney Young, Whitney Moore Young Jr.
United States civil rights leader (1921-1971) - Young, Loretta Young
United States film and television actress (1913-2000) - Yukawa, Hideki Yukawa
Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981) - Zaharias, Babe Zaharias, Didrikson, Babe Didrikson, Mildred Ella Didrikson, Mildred Ella Didrikson Zaharias
outstanding United States athlete (1914-1956) - Zangwill, Israel Zangwill
English writer (1864-1926) - Zanuck, Darryl Zanuck, Darryl Francis Zanuck
United States filmmaker whose works include the first full-length feature film with sound sequences (1902-1979) - Zapata, Emiliano Zapata
Mexican revolutionary who led a revolt for agrarian reforms (1879-1919) - Zechariah, Zacharias
a Hebrew minor prophet of the late 6th century BC - Zeeman, Pieter Zeeman
Dutch physicist honored for his research on the influence of magnetism on radiation which showed that light is radiated by the motion of charged particles in an atom (1865-1943) - Zeno, Zeno of Citium
ancient Greek philosopher who founded the Stoic school (circa 335-263 BC) - Zeno, Zeno of Elea
ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC) - Zephaniah, Sophonias
a Hebrew minor prophet of the late 7th century BC - Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
German inventor who designed and built the first rigid motorized dirigible (1838-1917)