Authors by W

Oscar Wilde 812

Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

Virginia Woolf 382

English writer 1882–1941

Ludwig Wittgenstein 228

Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951

Tennessee Williams 139

American playwright 1911–1983

George Washington 186

first President of the United States 1732–1799

Neale Donald Walsch 69

American writer 1943

Steven Weinberg 46

American theoretical physicist 1933

Orson Welles 53

American actor, director, writer and producer 1915–1985

Jack Welch 27

American executive: General Electric CEO 1935

Richard Wagner 39

German composer, conductor 1813–1883

Paul Joseph Watson	English YouTuber, radio host,…	1982
Richard Watson	British methodist theologian	1781–1833
Thomas Watson	English nonconformist preache…	1616–1686
Tom Watson	American businessman	1874–1956
Nobuhiro Watsuki	Japanese manga artist	1970
James Watt	British engineer	1736–1819
James G. Watt	United States Secretary of th…	1938
Mike Watt	musician, songwriter	1957
William Montgomery Watt	Scottish historian	1909–2006
Bill Watterson	American comic artist	1958
Wallace D. Wattles	American writer	1860–1911
Alan Watts	British philosopher, writer a…	1915–1973
Anthony Watts	American television meteorolo…	1958
George Frederick Watts	British painter and sculptor	1817–1904
Isaac Watts	English hymnwriter, theologia…	1674–1748
J. C. Watts	American politician	1957
Naomi Watts	British actress and film prod…	1968
Peter Watts	Canadian biologist and sci-fi…	1958
Reggie Watts	singer, musician and comedian	1972
Stephanie Powell Watts
Theodore Watts-Dunton	English literary critic and p…	1832–1914
Haim Watzman	American writer	1956
Alec Waugh	British novelist	1898–1981
Auberon Waugh	Author	1939–2001
Evelyn Waugh	British writer	1903–1966
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell	senior officer of the British…	1883–1950
Gerard Way	American musician and comic b…	1977
Margaret Way	Australian romance fiction wr…	1900
Francis Wayland	President of Brown University	1796–1865
Anthony Wayne	Continental Army general	1745–1796
John Wayne	American film actor	1907–1979
Lil Wayne	American rapper, singer, reco…	1982
George Weah	Liberian association football…	1966
Rest For The Weary
Leslie Weatherhead	English theologian	1893–1976
Fred Weatherly	English lawyer, author, lyric…	1848–1929
Dennis Weaver	American actor	1924–2006
Richard M. Weaver	American scholar	1910–1963
Sigourney Weaver	American actress	1949
Warren Weaver	American mathematician	1894–1978
Hugo Weaving	Nigerian born British-Austral…	1960
Aileen Osborn Webb	American patron of the arts	1892–1979
Charles Henry Webb	American poet	1834–1905
Gary Webb	American investigative journa…	1955–2004
Jim Webb	American politician, military…	1946
Robin L. Webb	American politician	1960
Stephen H. Webb	American theologian	1961–2016
William Webbe
Andrew Lloyd Webber	British composer	1948
Charles Frederick Webber	American soldier killed in ac…	1825–1863
Mark Webber
Carl Maria von Weber	German composer	1786–1826
David Weber	author	1952
Eugen Weber	American historian	1925–2007
Katharine Weber	American novelist	1955
Max Weber	German sociologist, philosoph…	1864–1920
Anton Webern	Austrian composer and conduct…	1883–1945
Daniel Webster	Leading American senator and …	1782–1852
David L. Webster	American Physicist	1888–1976
Jean Webster	American novelist	1876–1916
John Webster	English dramatist	1578–1634
Nesta Helen Webster	British far-right conspiracy …	1876–1960
Noah Webster	lexicographer, textbook pione…	1758–1843
Thaddus E. Weckowicz	Canadian psychologist	1919–2000
Frank Wedekind	German playwright	1864–1918
Brent Weeks	American fiction writer	1977
Sarah Weeks	American children's writer	1955
Mason Weems	fictionalizing biographer of …	1759–1825
Wang Wei	a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, …	699–759
Wei Wu Wei	writer	1895–1986
Karl E. Weick	Organisational psychologist	1936
Karl Weierstrass	German mathematician	1815–1897
William Weigand	Catholic bishop	1937
André Weil	French mathematician	1906–1998
Simone Weil	French philosopher, Christian…	1909–1943
Sanford I. Weill	American banker and philantrh…	1933
Elizabeth Wein	American children's writer	1964
Len Wein	American comic book writer an…	1948–2017
Alvin M. Weinberg	American nuclear physicist	1915–2006
Gerald M. Weinberg	American computer scientist	1933–2018
Steven Weinberg	American theoretical physicist	1933
David Weinberger	American philosopher	1950
Anthony Weiner	American politician	1964
Jennifer Weiner	American writer	1970
Jonathan Weiner	American nonfiction writer	1953
Lawrence Weiner	American artist	1942
Jona Weinhofen	Australian singer	1983
Otto Weininger	austrian philosopher and writ…	1880–1903
Bret Weinstein	biologist, professor, public …	1969
Arnold Weinstock	English businessman	1924–2002
Cui Weiping	Chinese film critic	1956
Andy Weir	American writer	1972
Johnny Weir	figure skater	1984
Peter Weir	Australian film director	1944
Robert Stanley Weir	Canadian judge and poet	1856–1926
Margaret Weis	American fantasy novelist	1948
René Weis		1953
Lauren Weisberger	American writer	1977
Dov Weisglass	Israeli lawyer	1946
Adam Weishaupt	German philosopher and founde…	1748–1830