Authors starting with W
- W. C. Allee1
- W. C. Fields79
- W. C. Handy4
- W. Clement Stone40
- W. E. Aytoun1
- W. S. Gilbert30
- Walker Percy17
- Wallace Stevens220
- Walt Disney202
- Walt Kelly39
- Walt Whitman8
- Walter Abish2
- Walter Bagehot58
- Walter de la Mare33
- Walter Hilton11
- Walter M. (Jr.) Miller7
- Walter Model10
- Walter Murch1
- Walter Pater9
- Walter Savage Landor16
- Walter Schellenberg6
- Walter Thomas Monnington1
- Walter Warlimont10
- Walter Winchell3
- Walther Funk12
- Walther von Brauchitsch5
- Wangari Maathai10
- Ward Cunningham68
- Warren Buffett102
- Washington Irving45
- Wassily Kandinsky25
- Wayne Dyer12
- Wayne Rosing1
- Weird Al Yankovic15
- Wendell Berry73
- Wendell Phillips31
- Wendy Cope5
- Werner Heisenberg18
- Werner Herzog71
- Werner von Blomberg6
- Wernher von Braun27
- Wesley Clark48
- Whoopi Goldberg10
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt3
- Wilfrid Sheed47
- Wilhelm Bittrich4
- Wilhelm Canaris12
- Wilhelm Frick7
- Wilhelm Keitel13
- Wilhelm Mohnke4
- Wilhelm Reich63
- Wilhelm von Humboldt28
- Wilkie Collins1
- Will Carleton10
- Will Cuppy108
- Will Ferrell113
- Will Jr. Lang7
- Will Rogers94
- Will Self7
- Will Smith7
- Willa Cather100
- Willard van Orman Quine9
- William Alexander1
- William Allan Wulf1
- William Allen Butler2
- William Allingham8
- William Andrew Cicil Bennett1
- William Arabin3
- William Barclay1
- William Barnes2
- William Blackstone12
- William Blake157
- William Booth6
- William Bradford9
- William Bull Halsey7
- William Butler Yeats176
- William Byrd5
- William Carlos Williams20
- William Cobbett26
- William Collins20
- William Congreve32
- William Cowper104
- William Cullen Bryant53
- William Dean Howells14
- William Ellery Channing35
- William Ewart Gladstone51
- William Faulkner70
- William Ford Gibson38
- William Francis Patrick Napier1
- William Frederick Yeames1
- William Godwin7
- William Golding31
- William H. Whyte11
- William Hague8
- William Harvey6
- William Henry Davies13
- William Henry Harrison10
- William Hung8
- William Irwin Thompson2
- William James126
- William Jennings Bryan16
- William Julius Mickle3
- William Julius Wilson57
- William Kapell1
- William King1
- William Langland7
- William Lisle Bowles2
- William Lloyd Garrison21
- William Lyon Mackenzie King10
- William Makepeace Thackeray54
- William Manchester1
- William March14
- William Marcy (Boss) Tweed4
- William McFee19
- William McKinley20
- William Miller2
- William Motherwell4
- William O. Douglas47
- William Osler23
- William Penn46
- William Plomer7
- William Ralph Inge4
- William Rehnquist30
- William Robert Spencer1
- William Ross Wallace1
- William S. Burroughs55
- William Saroyan179
- William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell3
- William Shakespeare51
- William Sharp7
- William Shenstone18
- William Somerset Maugham134
- William Soutar2
- William Stevenson1
- William Stukeley3
- William Tecumseh Sherman46
- William Temple3
- William Thomson19
- William Torrey Harris2
- William Watson11
- William Wetmore Story5
- William Whewell11
- William Winter1
- William Winwood Reade23
- William Wordsworth209
- William Wycherley2
- William, 1st Earl of Chatham Pitt25
- William, the Younger Pitt14
- Willie Rushton2
- Willy Brandt2
- Winslow Homer1
- Winston Churchill220
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed8
- Wislawa Szymborska68
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart94
- Wolfgang Pauli15
- Wolfram von Eschenbach19
- Woody Allen147
- Wouter van Oortmerssen8
- Wu Kung Tsao7
- Wyndham Lewis9
- Wystan Hugh Auden90