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- W. Arthur LewisSaint Lucian economist and Nobel laureate (1915–1991)
- W. H. R. RiversEnglish psychiatrist and anthropologist (1864–1922)
- Waldo R. ToblerAmerican geographer
- Walter Baldwin SpencerBritish-Australian biologist (1860–1929)
- Walter BurkertGerman classical philologist and religious scholar (1931–2015)
- Walter IsaacsonAmerican author and journalist (born 1952)
- Walter McCroneAmerican chemist (1916–2002)
- Walter William SkeatBritish philologist (1835–1912)
- Warren E. BurgerChief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986
- Weberian apparatusThe Weberian apparatus is an anatomical structure that connects the swim bladder to the au
- Whitney SmithAmerican vexillologist (1940–2016)
- Wilhelm ReichAustrian psychoanalyst (1897–1957)
- William BernbachAmerican businessman (1911–1982)
- William BeveridgeBritish Liberal politician, economist, and social reformer (1879–1963)
- William Carew HazlittWilliam Carew Hazlitt (22 August 1834 – 8 September 1913), known professionally as W. Care
- William DalrympleBritish historian and writer (born 1965)
- William Forster LloydWilliam Forster Lloyd FRS (1794 – 2 June 1852) was a British writer on economics. He is be
- William H. McNeillCanadian historian (1917–2016)
- William H. PrescottAmerican historian and Hispanist (1796–1859)
- William Hazlitt19th-century English essayist and critic (1778-1830)
- William Huntington RussellAmerican politician
- William J. Brennan Jr.U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1956 to 1990
- William KunstlerAmerican attorney and civil rights activist (1919–1995)
- William M. BassAmerican forensic anthropologist
- William MastersAmerican gynecologist (1915–2001)
- William Michael RossettiEnglish author and critic (1829–1919)
- William RehnquistChief Justice of the United States from 1986 to 2005
- William Stanley JevonsEnglish economist and logician (1835–1882)
- William Stoughton (judge)New England magistrate and colonial administrator
- William StukeleyEnglish antiquarian (1687–1765)
- Woodville, South AustraliaWoodville is a suburb of Adelaide, situated about 8 km (5 mi) north-west of the Adelaide c
- Works of AristotleThe Corpus Aristotelicum is the collection of Aristotle's works that have survived from an
- Wu Han (historian)Chinese historian and politician