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

John Archibald Wheeler	American physicist	1911–2008
Stuart Wheeler	British businessman and polit…	1935
Allen Wheelis	American psychoanalyst	1915–2007
Gloria Whelan	British children's writer	1923
Elizabeth Bisland Whetmore	American writer and journalist	1861–1929
William Whewell	English philosopher & histori…	1794–1866
Edwin Percy Whipple	American writer	1819–1886
Henry Benjamin Whipple	Bishop of Minnesota	1822–1901
William Whipple	American signatory of the Dec…	1730–1785
James McNeill Whistler	American-born, British-based …	1834–1903
John J. Whitacre	American politician	1860–1938
Forest Whitaker	American actor	1961
Andrew Dickson White	American politician	1832–1918
Beverly White	American politician	1928–2021
Bouck White	American author and novelist	1874–1951
Byron White	Associate Justice of the U.S.…	1917–2002
Chilton A. White	American politician	1826–1900
Curtis White	American academic	1951
Dana White	President of the UFC	1969
E. B. White	American writer	1899–1985
Edmund White	American novelist and LGBT es…	1940
Edward Higgins White
Ellen G. White	American author and founder/l…	1827–1915
Ethel Lina White	British writer	1876–1944
Hayden White	American historian	1928–2018
Henry Kirke White	English poet	1785–1806
Jack White	American musician and record …	1975
Karen White	American writer	1964
Leonard D. White	American historian	1891–1958
Marco Pierre White	English chef and restaurateur	1961
Meg White	American musician	1974
Patrick White	English-born Australian writer	1912–1990
Paula White	American television evangelist	1966
Persia White	American actress and singer	1972
Ron White	American comedian	1956
Shaun White	American snowboarder and skat…	1986
T. H. White	author	1906–1964
Tim White	American musician	1991
Vanna White	American model and game show …	1957
William Allen White	American newspaper editor and…	1868–1944
John Whiteaker	American politician	1820–1902
George Whitefield	English minister and preacher	1714–1770
Jack Whitehall	British comedian, television …	1988
Alfred North Whitehead	English mathematician and phi…	1861–1947
Colson Whitehead	novelist	1969
Katharine Whitehorn	British writer	1928
Mary Whitehouse	British activist	1910–2001
William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw	British Conservative politici…	1918–1999
Rachel Whiteread	British sculptor	1963
Gough Whitlam	Australian politician, 21st P…	1916–2014
Jason Whitlock	American TV person	1967
Charles Otis Whitman	American zoologist	1842–1910
Christine Todd Whitman	American politician	1946
Meg Whitman	American business executive	1956
Sarah Helen Whitman	United States poet	1803–1878
Walt Whitman	American poet, essayist and j…	1819–1892
David Whitmer	Book of Mormon witness	1805–1888
Phyllis A. Whitney	American writer	1903–2008
Rich Whitney	American lawyer	1955
Gerald James Whitrow	British mathematician	1912–2000
Edward Whittemore	American writer	1933–1995
John Greenleaf Whittier	American Quaker poet and advo…	1807–1892
Bill Whittle	author, director, screenwrite…	1959
Charlotte Whitton	Canadian politician	1896–1975
Benjamin Lee Whorf	American linguist	1897–1941
David Whyte
Jack Whyte	Canadian writer	1940
Lancelot Law Whyte	Scottish industrial engineer	1896–1972
William Foote Whyte	American sociologist	1914–2000
George Whyte-Melville	Scottish writer	1821–1878
Leonard Wibberley	Irish-American author	1915–1983
Lori Wick	American writer
Walter Wick	American photographer and cre…	1953
Ranil Wickremesinghe	Former Prime Minister of Sri …	1949
Philip Wicksteed	English economist	1844–1927
Zoë Wicomb	South African author resident…	1948
John Edgar Wideman	Fiction writer, memoirist, es…	1941
Annette Widmann-Mauz	German politician	1966
Cainan Wiebe	Canadian actor	1995
Denis Wiehe	Seychellois bishop	1940
Lis Wiehl	American legal scholar	1961
Christoph Martin Wieland	German writer, poet and publi…	1733–1813
Helmin Wiels	Curaçao politician	1958–2013
Norbert Wiener	American mathematician	1894–1964
Eric F. Wieschaus	American geneticist	1947
Elie Wiesel	writer, professor, political …	1928–2016
Simon Wiesenthal	Austrian Holocaust survivor n…	1908–2005
Lambert Wiesing	German archaeologist, humanit…	1963
David Wiesner	American children's illustrat…	1956
Brianna Wiest		1992
Kate Douglas Wiggin	American writer	1856–1923
Smith Wigglesworth	British evangelist	1859–1947
Susan Wiggs	American writer	1958
Eugene Paul Wigner	mathematician and Nobel Prize…	1902–1995
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga	President of Sri Lanka	1916–2008
Unni Wikan	Norwegian anthropologist	1944
Ken Wilber	American writer and public sp…	1949
Samuel Wilberforce	Bishop in the Church of Engla…	1805–1873
William Wilberforce	English politician	1759–1833
Ray Lyman Wilbur	President of Stanford Univers…	1875–1949