| Bruce Willis | American actor, producer, and… | 1955 |
| Connie Willis | American science fiction writ… | 1945 |
| Ellen Willis | writer, activist | 1941–2006 |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis | American magazine writer, edi… | 1806–1867 |
| Wesley Willis | American singer-songwriter | 1963–2003 |
| Wendell Willkie | American businessman | 1892–1944 |
| Tom Wills | Australian sportsman | 1835–1880 |
| John Wilmot | English politician | 1748–1815 |
| John Eardley Wilmot | English judge | 1709–1792 |
| Ian Wilmut | embryologist | 1944 |
| Barbara Wilshere | British actor | 1959 |
| Bruce Wilshire | American philosopher | 1932–2015 |
| A. N. Wilson | English writer | 1950 |
| Angus Wilson | british author | 1913–1991 |
| August Wilson | American playwright | 1945–2005 |
| Brian Wilson | American musician, singer, so… | 1942 |
| Charles Erwin Wilson | American secretary of Defence | 1890–1961 |
| Charlotte Wilson | | |
| Cintra Wilson | American writer, performer an… | 1967 |
| Colin Wilson | author | 1931–2013 |
| Daniel H. Wilson | American writer | 1978 |
| D. Harlan Wilson | novelist | 1971 |
| Don W. Wilson | Archivist of the United States | 1942 |
| Edmund Wilson | American writer, literary and… | 1895–1972 |
| Edward O. Wilson | American biologist | 1929 |
| Eugene S. Wilson | | 1905 |
| Flip Wilson | Comedian, actor | 1933–1998 |
| F. Paul Wilson | novelist | 1946 |
| Harold Wilson | Former Prime Minister of the … | 1916–1995 |
| Heather Wilson | | |
| Henry Wilson | Union Army officer, Vice pres… | 1812–1875 |
| Jacqueline Wilson | novelist | 1945 |
| James Wilson | one of the Founding Fathers o… | 1742–1798 |
| James Grant Wilson | Union Army general | 1832–1914 |
| John Wilson | Scottish advocate, literary c… | 1785–1854 |
| Joseph C. Wilson | American ambassador | 1949–2019 |
| Mary Wilson | British poet, wife of Harold … | 1916–2018 |
| Nancy Wilson | American rock musician, membe… | 1954 |
| Owen Wilson | American actor and screenwrit… | 1968 |
| Rainn Wilson | actor | 1966 |
| Robert Anton Wilson | American author and polymath | 1932–2007 |
| Robert Charles Wilson | author | 1953 |
| Robert McLiam Wilson | North Irish author | 1964 |
| Robert Woodrow Wilson | American astronomer | 1936 |
| Sammy Wilson | British politician | 1953 |
| Sheri-D Wilson | Canadian Spoken Word Poet | 1958 |
| Thomas F. Wilson | actor, writer, musician, pain… | 1959 |
| Torrie Wilson | American professional wrestler | 1975 |
| William Julius Wilson | American sociologist | 1935 |
| Woodrow Wilson | American politician, 28th pre… | 1856–1924 |
| Robb Wilton | comedian | 1881–1957 |
| April Winchell | American voice actor and writ… | 1960 |
| Walter Winchell | American gossip journalist | 1897–1972 |
| Edith Windsor | American LGBT rights activist… | 1929–2017 |
| Marie Windsor | American actress | 1919–2000 |
| Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | wife of Edward VIII of the Un… | 1896–1986 |
| Amy Winehouse | English singer and songwriter | 1983–2011 |
| Oprah Winfrey | American businesswoman, talk … | 1954 |
| Lisa Wingate | | |
| Orde Charles Wingate | British Army General | 1903–1944 |
| Larry Winget | American motivational speaker | 1952 |
| Walter Wink | American biblical scholar | 1935–2012 |
| Henry Winkler | American actor, director and … | 1945 |
| Kitty Winn | American actress | 1943 |
| Michael Winner | English film director, film p… | 1935–2013 |
| Terry Winograd | American computer scientist | 1946 |
| Kate Winslet | English actress and singer | 1975 |
| Dean Winslow | | 1953 |
| Don Winslow | American writer | 1953 |
| Edward Winslow | | |
| Octavius Winslow | English theologian | 1808–1878 |
| Kathleen Winsor | American author | 1919–2003 |
| Mary Winsor | American suffragist | 1869–1956 |
| Jacqueline Winspear | English writer | 1955 |
| Gerrard Winstanley | English Protestant religious … | 1609–1676 |
| Mary Elizabeth Winstead | American actress and singer | 1984 |
| George Winston | American recording artist; pi… | 1949–2023 |
| Barbara Winter | | 1944 |
| Colin Winter | Bishop of Damaraland noted fo… | 1928–1981 |
| Sidney G. Winter | American economist | 1935 |
| William Winter | American writer | 1836–1917 |
| Dick Winters | American military personnel | 1918–2011 |
| Jonathan Winters | American comedian, actor, and… | 1925–2013 |
| Shelley Winters | actress | 1920–2006 |
| Yvor Winters | American poet and literary cr… | 1900–1968 |
| Jeanette Winterson | English writer | 1959 |
| John Winthrop | Governor of the Province of M… | 1588–1649 |
| Robert Charles Winthrop | American politician | 1809–1894 |
| Theodore Winthrop | Union Army officer | 1828–1861 |
| Tim Winton | Australian writer | 1960 |
| Anna Wintour | English editor-in-chief of Am… | 1949 |
| Ashin Wirathu | Burmese Buddhist monk | 1968 |
| Rebecca Wirfs-Brock | American software engineer | 1953 |
| Tim Wirkus | American science fiction writ… | |
| Christian Wirth | | |
| Christina Wirth | American basketball player | 1987 |
| Niklaus Wirth | Swiss computer scientist | 1934 |
| W. Willard Wirtz | American Secretary of Labor | 1912–2010 |
| Linda Randall Wisdom | American writer | |
| Norman Wisdom | English actor, comedian and s… | 1915–2010 |
