Barnes Wallis |
UK aeronautical inventor |
(1887-1979) |
Hugh Walpole |
UK novelist |
(1888-1941) |
Sam Walton |
US businessman (founder of Wal-Mart) |
(1918-1992) |
Andy Warhol |
US artist |
(1928-1987) |
William Arthur Ward |
US college administrator |
(1921-1994) |
Eugene F. Ware |
American lawyer/poet |
(1841-1911) |
Harry Warner |
US movie executive |
(1881-1958) |
Booker T. Washington |
US educator, former slave |
(1856-1915) |
James D. Watson |
UK scientist (discovered
DNA) |
(1928-) |
Thomas J. Watson |
IBM Chairman |
(1874-1956) |
Alan Watts |
US Theologian/author |
(1915-1973) |
Evelyn Waugh |
UK writer/satirist |
(1903-1966) |
Simone Weil |
French philosopher |
(1909–1943) |
Jack Welch |
General Electric CEO |
(1935–) |
H. G. Wells |
UK novelist |
(1866-1946) |
Orson Welles |
American actor |
(1915-1985) |
Eudora Welty |
US writer |
(1909-) |
Mae West |
US actress |
(1892-1980) |
Vivienne Westwood |
UK fashion designer |
(1941-) |
Edith Wharton |
US author |
(1862-1937) |
Richard Whately |
Irish bishop |
(1787-1863) |
Margaret J. Wheatley |
US business author |
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Edwin Percy Whipple |
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James Whistler |
US artist |
(1834-1903) |
Alfred North Whitehead |
UK
philosopher/mathematician |
(1861–1947) |
Walt Whitman |
US poet |
(1819-1892) |
Benjamin Whorf |
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(1897-1941) |
Robert Wieder |
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Oscar Wilde |
Irish novelist/poet |
(1854–1900) |
Billy Wilder |
Austro-Hungarian movie director |
(1906–2002) |
Tennessee Williams |
US dramatist |
(1911–1983) |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Austrian philosopher |
(1889–1951) |
Erasmus Wilson |
Oxford university
professor |
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Harold Wilson |
UK Prime Minister |
(1916-1995) |
Mitchell Wilson |
US physicist/inventor |
(1954-) |
Woodrow Wilson |
US statesman |
1856–1925) |
Oprah Winfrey |
US celebrity |
(1954-) |
Grant Wood |
US painter |
(1892-1942) |
Marion Woodman |
US Jungian analyst |
(1928-) |
Robert Woodworth |
US psychologist |
(1869-1962) |
Virginia Woolf |
UK writer |
(1882–1941) |
William Wordsworth |
UK poet |
(1770–1850) |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
US architect |
(1869–1959) |
Wilbur Wright |
US inventor (aeroplane) |
(1867-1912) |
Walter Wriston |
US industrialist |
(1919-) |