Authors starting with W
- W. C. Allee3
- W. C. Fields99
- W. C. Handy16
- W. Clement Stone60
- W. E. Aytoun9
- W. S. Gilbert54
- Walker Percy31
- Wallace Stevens230
- Walt Disney212
- Walt Kelly63
- Walt Whitman24
- Walter Abish7
- Walter Bagehot78
- Walter de la Mare59
- Walter Hilton15
- Walter M. (Jr.) Miller21
- Walter Model11
- Walter Murch13
- Walter Pater27
- Walter Savage Landor29
- Walter Schellenberg6
- Walter Thomas Monnington1
- Walter Warlimont10
- Walter Winchell15
- Walther Funk12
- Walther von Brauchitsch6
- Wangari Maathai30
- Ward Cunningham72
- Warren Buffett112
- Washington Irving65
- Wassily Kandinsky45
- Wayne Dyer36
- Wayne Rosing1
- Weird Al Yankovic17
- Wendell Berry93
- Wendell Phillips56
- Wendy Cope17
- Werner Heisenberg32
- Werner Herzog91
- Werner von Blomberg6
- Wernher von Braun49
- Wesley Clark68
- Whoopi Goldberg30
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt3
- Wilfrid Sheed63
- Wilhelm Bittrich4
- Wilhelm Canaris13
- Wilhelm Frick10
- Wilhelm Keitel20
- Wilhelm Mohnke4
- Wilhelm Reich83
- Wilhelm von Humboldt50
- Wilkie Collins13
- Will Carleton24
- Will Cuppy118
- Will Ferrell123
- Will Jr. Lang21
- Will Rogers114
- Will Self21
- Will Smith21
- Willa Cather110
- Willard van Orman Quine27
- William Alexander12
- William Allan Wulf1
- William Allen Butler6
- William Allingham24
- William Andrew Cicil Bennett13
- William Arabin3
- William Barclay13
- William Barnes6
- William Blackstone36
- William Blake166
- William Booth18
- William Bradford19
- William Bull Halsey21
- William Butler Yeats186
- William Byrd5
- William Carlos Williams36
- William Cobbett47
- William Collins26
- William Congreve58
- William Cowper114
- William Cullen Bryant67
- William Dean Howells42
- William Ellery Channing63
- William Ewart Gladstone54
- William Faulkner90
- William Ford Gibson68
- William Francis Patrick Napier5
- William Frederick Yeames1
- William Godwin21
- William Golding56
- William H. Whyte26
- William Hague24
- William Harvey18
- William Henry Davies16
- William Henry Harrison21
- William Hung23
- William Irwin Thompson14
- William James136
- William Jennings Bryan29
- William Julius Mickle5
- William Julius Wilson69
- William Kapell2
- William King9
- William Langland15
- William Lisle Bowles2
- William Lloyd Garrison38
- William Lyon Mackenzie King30
- William Makepeace Thackeray74
- William Manchester13
- William March16
- William Marcy (Boss) Tweed5
- William McFee34
- William McKinley36
- William Miller9
- William Motherwell4
- William O. Douglas66
- William Osler41
- William Penn66
- William Plomer13
- William Ralph Inge16
- William Rehnquist42
- William Robert Spencer2
- William Ross Wallace7
- William S. Burroughs75
- William Saroyan189
- William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell5
- William Shakespeare72
- William Sharp11
- William Shenstone32
- William Somerset Maugham139
- William Soutar5
- William Stevenson13
- William Stukeley3
- William Tecumseh Sherman66
- William Temple15
- William Thomson20
- William Torrey Harris5
- William Watson29
- William Wetmore Story10
- William Whewell33
- William Winter1
- William Winwood Reade32
- William Wordsworth219
- William Wycherley14
- William, 1st Earl of Chatham Pitt35
- William, the Younger Pitt27
- Willie Rushton3
- Willy Brandt14
- Winslow Homer13
- Winston Churchill230
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed16
- Wislawa Szymborska88
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart114
- Wolfgang Pauli27
- Wolfram von Eschenbach20
- Woody Allen157
- Wouter van Oortmerssen8
- Wu Kung Tsao7
- Wyndham Lewis27
- Wystan Hugh Auden93