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• W. Craig Jelinek · Actor
• W. Michael Blumenthal · former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
• Wagner Moura · Actor
• Wahbi Khazri · football player
• Wahoo McDaniel · American football player and professional wrestler (1938-2002)
• Waite Hoyt · film director
• Waldemar Hartmann · German sports journalist
• Waldemar Hoven · German physician, SS officer and convicted war criminal (1903-1948)
• Waldemar Kamer · actor
• Waldemar Kobus · actor
• Waldemar Malak · Polish weightlifter
• Waldemar Petersen · entrepreneur
• Waldemar Steffen · German high and long jumper (1872–1965)
• Waleed Zuaiter · American actor and producer
• Walid Atta · Swedish football player
• Wallace Beery · Oscar Winners
• Wallace Langham · Actor
• Wallace Shawn · Actor
• Wally Albright · athlete
• Wally Joyner · film director
• Wally Yonamine · film director
• Walt Disney · actor
• Walter Anderson · Baltic German folklorist (1885–1962)
• Walter Andrae · German archeologist and architect (1875-1956)
• Walter Andreas Angerer · German composer sculptor, and painter
• Walter Andreas Schwarz · singer, author, Kabarettist, author of radio dramas and translator (1913-1992)
• Walter Baade · German astronomer (1893–1960)
• Walter Ballhause · photographer (1911–1991)
• Walter Benjamin · YouTube personality
• Walter Block · philosopher
• Walter Bluhm · German actor (1904-1976)
• Walter Bonatti · Italian mountaineer (1930–2011)
• Walter Bosshard · Swiss photographer, teacher, explorer, botanist, botanical collector (1892-1975)
• Walter Breisky · politician
• Walter Buch · German general (1883-1949)
• Walter Chaffe · athlete
• Walter Cramer · entrepreneur
• Walter Cunningham · scientist
• Walter Curt Behrendt · German-American architect
• Walter Dieckmann · chemist
• Walter Dornberger · German general (1895–1980)
• Walter Ernsting · German writer (1920–2005)
• Walter Friedrich Otto · German classical philologist (1874-1958)
• Walter Gargano · football player
• Walter Gerlach · scientist
• Walter Giger · Swiss chemist and professor at ETH Zurich
• Walter Gross · German physician and Nazi politician (1904-1945)
• Walter Grotrian · German astronomer and astrophysicist (1890-1954)
• Walter Haeussermann · scientist
• Walter Hartmann · military person
• Walter Hasenclever · writer
• Walter Heitler · philosopher
• Walter Heitz · German general (1878–1944)
• Walter Held · German journalist (1910-1942)
• Walter Hieber · chemist
• Walter Hill · Actor
• Walter Hohmann · German engineer (1880-1945)
• Walter Husemann · German journalist (1909-1943)
• Walter Huston · Canadian actor and singer (1883–1950)
• Walter Janssen · actor
• Walter Kaufmann · chemist
• Walter Kempowski · German writer (1929–2007)
• Walter Klien · musician
• Walter Kolm-Veltée · actor
• Walter Kreye · German actor
• Walter Krüger · military person
• Walter Ladengast · actor
• Walter Matthau · American actor, comedian and director (1920–2000)
• Walter Moers · writer
• Walter Müller · actor
• Walter Niephaus · German chess player (1923-1992)
• Walter Noddack · chemist
• Walter Oesau · military person
• Walter Pandiani · Uruguayan footballer
• Walter Rauff · military person
• Walter Reppe · chemist
• Walter Richter · German actor (1905-1985)
• Walter Riester · German trade unionist and politician
• Walter Rilla · actor
• Walter Riml · Austrian cameraman, photographer and actor (1905-1994)
• Walter Robinow · German chess player (1867-1938)
• Walter Roderer · Swiss actor (1920-2012)
• Walter Rudi Wand · German judge (1928-1985)
• Walter Ruttmann · German film director (1887-1941)
• Walter Scheel · politician
• Walter Schellenberg · writer
• Walter Schenk · German military personnel
• Walter Schimana · German Waffen-SS general
• Walter Schmidt · fourth Chief Apostle of the New Apostolic Church
• Walter Schmitt · SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS (1879-1945)
• Walter Schreiber · German physician and general (1893-1970)
• Walter Sedlmayr · German actor (1926–1990)
• Walter Simons · German politician and judge (1861-1937)
• Walter Stocker · Actor
• Walter Stöhrer · German artist (1937-2000)
• Walter Szczerbiak · basketball player
• Walter Szołtysek · German sportsperson and weightlifter
• Walter Ulbricht · politician
• Walter von Reichenau · Notable Trials
• Walter von Unruh · German general (1877-1956)
• Walter Weiß · military person
• Walter Werzowa · musician
• Walter Wislicenus · German astronomer (1859–1905)
• Walther Amelung · German archaeologist (1865–1927)
• Walther Arndt · German zoologist (1891–1944) executed by the Nazis
• Walther Augustin Villiger · Swiss astronomer (1872–1938)
• Walther Bensemann · German footballer (1873–1934)
• Walther Bierkamp · SS officer and lawyer (1901–1945)
• Walther Bothe · chemist
• Walther Funk · Notable Trials
• Walther Fürst · German judge and politician (1912-2009)
• Walther Grunwald · German architect and photographer
• Walther Hewel · politician
• Walther Kittel · German general and physician (1887-1971)
• Walther Kossel · chemist
• Walther Nehring · German general (1892–1983)
• Walther Schücking · German politician (1875-1935)
• Walther von Brauchitsch · military person
• Walther von Lüttwitz · German general (1859-1942)
• Walther Wever · military person
• Waltraud Nowarra · German chess player (1940–2007)
• Wamiqa Gabbi · Actor
• Wanda Jarszewska · actress (1888-1964)
• Wanda Orlikowski · South African-American computer scientist
• Wanda Sykes · Actor
• Wanessa Camargo · singer
• Wang Ch'ung-hui · Taiwanese judge (1881-1958)
• Wang Chuanfu · Chinese chemist and manager
• Wang Houjun · Chinese football player and coach (1943-2012)
• Wang Jingwei · politician
• Wang Leehom · Taiwanese singer, songwriter, actor
• Wang Mingjuan · Chinese weightlifter
• Wang Qishan · politician
• Wang Shengjun · Chinese politician
• Wang Xiaoyun · Chinese computer scientist
• Wang Zi-Ping · athlete
• Wanting Qu · singer-songwriter
• Ward Howell · American chief executive officer (1910-1980)
• Ward Kerremans · Actor
• Waris Ahluwalia · actor
• Warner Baxter · Oscar Winners
• Warner Oland · actor
• Warren Beatty · American actor and filmmaker
• Warren Buffett · Investor & CEO
• Warren Moon · American gridiron football player (born 1956)
• Warren Rudman · politician
• Warren Weir · Jamaican athletics competitor
• Warren Zaïre-Emery · association football player
• Washboard Sam · American blues singer and musician (1910–1966)
• Washington Rodríguez · boxer
• Wassili Luckhardt · German architect (1889–1972)
• Wassily Kandinsky · avant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866–1944)
• Wastl Fanderl · German musician (1915–1991)
• Wastl Witt · German actor (1882–1955)
• Waylon Jennings · American country musician (1937–2002)
• Wayne Carpendale · German actor
• Wayne Duvall · Actor
• Wayne Knight · Actor
• Wayne Odesnik · American tennis player
• Wayne Rogers · American actor (1933–2015)
• Wayne Shelford · New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach
• Wayne Static · American musician (1965–2014)
• Wee Cho Yaw · Former Chairman, UOB
• Weeb Ewbank · American football player, coach, and executive, basketball player and coach (1907–1998)
• Weijia Jiang · Reporter
• Weiß Ferdl · singer
• Wen Jiabao · politician
• Wenceslas Lauret · French rugby union player
• Wend von Wietersheim · military person
• Wendelin Wiedeking · entrepreneur
• Wendie Jo Sperber · Actor
• Wendy (Son Seung-wan) · K-pop Idol (Red Velvet)
• Wendy Carlos · composer
• Wendy Crewson · Actor
• Wendy Hale · Solomon Island weightlifter
• Wendy Hall · British computer scientist (1952-)
• Wendy Palmer · American basketball player
• Wendy Raquel Robinson · Actor
• Wendy Williams · radio personality
• Wenzel Fuchs · musician
• Wera Engels · German actress (1904–1988)
• Werner Abrolat · German actor (1924-1997)
• Werner Andreas Albert · musician
• Werner Becker · German conductor and composer
• Werner Best · politician
• Werner Daehn · German actor
• Werner Eichhorn · German actor (1922-2005)
• Werner Forssmann · German physician, Nobel prize winner (1904-1979)
• Werner Freyberg · field hockey player (1902-1973)
• Werner Haase · SS officer and physician (1900–1950)
• Werner Hamel · field hockey player (1911–1987)
• Werner Herzog · actor
• Werner Heyde · SS officer and psychiatrist (1902-1964)
• Werner Hippler · German football player
• Werner Kaessmann · field hockey player
• Werner Keller · German journalist, non-fiction writer, and anti-Nazi resistance fighter (1909–1980)
• Werner Kempf · German general (1886–1964)
• Werner Kissling · German photographer ethnographer (1895–1988)
• Werner Klumpp · German politician (1928–2021)
• Werner Kubitzki · field hockey player (1915-1994)
• Werner Landgraf · German astronomer
• Werner Lesser · athlete
• Werner Lindemann · German writer (1926–1993)
• Werner Lorenz · German general (1891-1974)
• Werner Maihofer · German legal scholar and politician (1918–2009)
• Werner Maser · German historian (1922–2007)
• Werner Müller · German anthropologist (1907–1990)
• Werner Nachmann · entrepreneur
• Werner Ostendorff · military person
• Werner Otto · entrepreneur
• Werner Proft · German field hockey player
• Werner Riess · scientist
• Werner Rosenbaum · German field hockey player (1927–2008)
• Werner Schroeter · writer
• Werner Schumacher · German actor (1921-2004)
• Werner Schwab · artist
• Werner Schwier · actor
• Werner Sellhorn · German journalist, literary editor and musicologist (1930–2009)
• Werner Sobek · German engineer and architect
• Werner Tübke · German artist (1929-2004)
• Werner Veigel · German journalist (1928–1995)
• Werner von Fritsch · military person
• Werner von Haeften · military person
• Werner von Melle · German politician (1853-1937)
• Wernher von Braun · military person
• Weronika Książkiewicz · actress
• Wes Anderson · Actor
• Wes Bentley · Actor
• Wes Borland · singer
• Wes Brown · English association football player
• Wes Chatham · Actor
• Wes Montgomery · American jazz guitarist (1923–1968)
• Wes Obermueller · film director
• Wes Studi · Actor
• Wes Welker · American football player and coach (born 1981)
• Wesley John · football player
• Wesley Sneijder · Dutch association football player (born 1984)
• Wesley Snipes · Notable Trials
• Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven · military person
• WestBam · writer
• Weston McKennie · association football player
• Whitey Ford · film director
• Whitney Able · Actor
• Whitney Houston · Singer
• Whoopi Goldberg · television actor
• Wibke Bruhns · German journalist and news presenter (1938–2019)
• Wieland Wagner · writer
• Wigald Boning · German comedian and television presenter
• Wilbert Harrison · American rhythm and blues singer, pianist, guitarist and harmonica player (1929-1994)
• Wilbert Robinson · film director
• Wild Man Fischer · singer-songwriter
• Wilfred Elrington · journalist
• Wilfrid Morin · Canadian abbé, professor and essayist
• Wilfried Hochholdinger · actor
• Wilfried Klaus · German actor
• Wilfried Sanou · Burkinabé association football player
• Wilhelm Adam · German politician (1893–1978)
• Wilhelm Alzinger · Austrian archeologist and university educator (1928–1998)
• Wilhelm Beiglböck · German physician (1905-1963); defendant in the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial
• Wilhelm Boden · German lawyer, civil servant and politician (1890-1961)
• Wilhelm Bölsche · German author and editor (1861–1939)
• Wilhelm Brückner · Austrian SA officer (1884-1954)
• Wilhelm Bungert · German tennis player
• Wilhelm Busch · German protestant pastor and writer (1897-1966)
• Wilhelm Castelli · German photographer (1901-1984)
• Wilhelm Cohn · German chess player (1859-1913)
• Wilhelm Dachauer · Austrian artist (1881-1951)
• Wilhelm Dörpfeld · German architect and archaeologist (1853–1940)
• Wilhelm Dörr · German discus thrower (1881-1955)
• Wilhelm Ehm · German admiral (1918–2009)
• Wilhelm Ernst · chess player from Germany
• Wilhelm Ernst I, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach · Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
• Wilhelm Filchner · writer
• Wilhelm Fischer · German boxer
• Wilhelm Fliess · German surgeon (1858–1928)
• Wilhelm Franz · German businessman (1913-1971)
• Wilhelm Frick · Notable Trials
• Wilhelm Genazino · YouTube personality
• Wilhelm Gliese · German astronomer (1915-1993)
• Wilhelm Groener · politician
• Wilhelm Grube · German linguist (1855-1908)
• Wilhelm Gustloff · politician
• Wilhelm Haller · German businessman (1935-2004)
• Wilhelm Heckmann · musician
• Wilhelm Heye · military person
• Wilhelm His · German cardiologist (1863–1934)
• Wilhelm Hünermann · German writer (1900–1975)
• Wilhelm II · as last King of Prussia German Emperor from 1888 to 1918 (1859–1941)
• Wilhelm Kaisen · German politician, Mayor of Bremen (1887-1979)
• Wilhelm Karmann · entrepreneur
• Wilhelm Keitel · Notable Trials
• Wilhelm Keppler · entrepreneur
• Wilhelm Koch · politician
• Wilhelm Koenen · East German politician (1886-1963)
• Wilhelm Koep · German architect (1905–1999)
• Wilhelm Koppe · SS and Police Leader (Nazi Germany); German general (1896-1975)
• Wilhelm Koppers · Austrian anthropologist (1886–1961)
• Wilhelm Kreis · German architect (1873-1955)
• Wilhelm Külz · German politician (1875-1948)
• Wilhelm Kuntner · Austrian soldier (1915–2001)
• Wilhelm Leichum · Olympic jumper (1911–1941)
• Wilhelm Liebknecht · Notable Trials
• Wilhelm Lorenz · German astronomer (1886–1918)
• Wilhelm Marx · German politician (1863–1946)
• Wilhelm Morgner · German painter (1891-1917)
• Wilhelm Müller-Wismar · German ethnographer (1881-1916)
• Wilhelm Normann · chemist
• Wilhelm Ostwald · writer
• Wilhelm Pfannenstiel · Physician and SS-Standartenführer (1890-1982)
• Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb · Notable Trials
• Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma · German general (1891–1948)
• Wilhelm Schäperclaus · scientist
• Wilhelm Scheiner · German painter and photographer (1852-1922)
• Wilhelm Schieber · artist
• Wilhelm Schlenk · chemist
• Wilhelm Schmidt · German anthropologist, linguist and historian of religion (1868–1954)
• Wilhelm Sievers · German geologist (1860-1921)
• Wilhelm Simon · SS officer (1900-1971)
• Wilhelm Spiegelberg · German Egyptologist (1870–1930)
• Wilhelm Stuckart · writer
• Wilhelm Uhde · German art historian, dealer and collector (1874-1947)
• Wilhelm von Gottberg · German politician
• Wilhelm von Opel · German industrialist and Nazi party member (1871-1948)
• Wilhelm Weinberg · German physician (1862–1937)
• Wilhelm Worringer · writer
• Wilhelm Zaisser · German politician (1893-1958)
• Wilhelm, German Crown Prince · Prussian Crown Prince (1882-1951)
• Will Arnett · Actor
• Will Berthold · German screenwriter (1924–2000)
• Will Best · Television presenter
• Will Chase · American actor and singer (born 1970)
• Will Claye · American triple jumper and long jumper
• Will Erich Peuckert · folklorist (1895–1969)
• Will Ferrell · American actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer (born 1967)
• Will Forte · Actor
• Will Glahé · German musician
• Will Greenwood · English rugby union footballer
• Will Hare · Actor
• Will Peltz · Actor
• Will Poulter · Actor
• Will Robson Emilio Andrade · Brazilian association football player
• Will Sasso · Canadian actor and comedian
• Will Smith · television actor
• Will Venable · Major League Baseball rightfielder
• Will White · American baseball player, pitcher, manager (1854–1911)
• will.i.am · rapper
• Willa Ford · American actor, model, singer, composer, dancer and musician
• Willard Boyle · scientist
• Willem Arondeus · Dutch painter, writer and member of the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance (1894-1943)
• Willem Dafoe · Film actor
• Willem Drees · Dutch politician (1886–1988)
• Willem Duys · rapper
• Willem Jacob Luyten · Dutch-American astronomer (1899–1994)
• Willi Bredel · journalist
• Willi Bucher · German artist
• Willi Daume · basketball player
• Willi Hennig · writer
• Willi Marquardt · actor
• Willi Reinfrank · German weightlifter (1903–1943)
• Willi Resetarits · actor
• Willi Schlage · German chess master (1888–1940)
• Willi Stoph · politician
• William Albert Hiltner · American astronomer (1914–1991)
• William Alfred Fowler · American nuclear physicist (1911-1995)
• William Anderson Coffin · journalist
• William Arce · American baseball coach (1925–2016)
• William Atherton · Actor
• William Auld · writer
• William Bates · scientist
• William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn · British baron (1856-1936)
• William Boeing · Actor
• William Bonner · writer
• William Bourdon · Actor
• William Boyd Dawkins · Geologist
• William Butler Yeats · Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
• William Daniel Hillis · entrepreneur
• William Devane · Actor
• William Dieterle · German/American actor, film director and art collector (1893–1972)
• William Edward Binney · Actor
• William Edward White · film director
• William Faulkner · American writer (1897-1962)
• William Fichtner · Actor
• William Fox · Actor
• William Francis Hillebrand · chemist
• William Franklyn-Miller · Actor / Model
• William Friedkin · American director and producer (1935–2023)
• William Gallas · football player
• William Golding · British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1911–1993)
• William Goodsir-Cullen · field hockey player
• William Greggan · athlete
• William H. Macy · American actor
• William Henry Moody · US Supreme Court justice from 1906 to 1910
• William Hirstein · writer
• William Holden · Oscar Winners
• William Hootkins · Actor
• William Houston · Actor
• William Howard Taft · president of the United States from 1909 to 1913
• William Hurt · Oscar Winners
• William J. Brennan · U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1956 to 1990
• William Jennings Gardner · American football player and coach, basketball coach, baseball coach, college athletics administrator, law-enforcement agent (1884-1965)
• William Kahan · Canadian mathematician and computer scientist (born 1933)
• William Kennedy · journalist
• William Kidd · Notable Trials
• William Lee Scott · Actor
• William Lucking · Actor
• William Mang · actor
• William McLean Hamilton · politician
• William Norris · entrepreneur
• William of Ockham · Notable Trials
• William Orbit · Record producer
• William P. Murphy · American scientist (1892–1987)
• William Pastore · chief executive officer
• William Perry · American football player (born 1962)
• William Renwick · Scottish rugby union player (1914–1944)
• William Roberts · British painter (1895-1980)
• William Ruto · Politician
• William S. Burroughs · Notable Trials
• William S. Taylor · Actor
• William Sadler · Actor
• William Saliba · association football player
• William Saroyan · Writer
• William Shakespeare · Playwright
• William Shatner · singer
• William Slade · athlete
• William Sullivan · Indian field hockey player (1909–1981)
• William T. Vollmann · YouTube personality
• William Taubman · American political scientist
• William Totok · Romanian-born German writer and publicist (born 1951)
• William Travilla · American costume designer (1920-1990)
• William Turnbull · Scottish artist (1922-2012)
• William Wadsworth Hodkinson · Actor
• William Wyler · actor
• William, Prince of Albania · military person
• Willibald Freiherr von Langermann und Erlencamp · military person
• Willibald Pahr · Austrian politician, foreign minister
• Willie Aames · Actor
• Willie Dixon · singer-songwriter
• Willie John McBride · Irish rugby union footballer and coach
• Willie Nelson · singer-songwriter
• Willie Williams · British stage and lighting designer
• Willoughby James Hamilton · Irish tennis and badminton player (1864–1943)
• Willow Shields · Actor
• Willow Smith · singer
• Willy Astor · musician
• Willy Bogner · German skier and entrepreneur (1909–1977)
• Willy Brandt · politician
• Willy Burmester · musician
• Willy Busch · German footballer (1907–1982)
• Willy Guhl · artist
• Willy Kaiser-Heyl · actor (1876-1953)
• Willy Knupp · German journalist
• Willy Ley · journalist
• Willy Meisl · Austrian footballer and journalist (1895-1968)
• Willy Moon · singer
• Willy Prager · German actor (1877-1956)
• Willy Puchner · Austrian photographer
• Willy Reichert · German comic and actor (1896–1973)
• Willy Rosen · actor
• Willy Sagnol · French football manager (born 1977)
• Willy Schäfer · television actor (1933-2011)
• Willy Schürmann-Horster · actor
• Wilm Hosenfeld · military person
• Wilma Olson · American chemist
• Wilmer Mizell · American baseball player (1930-1999)
• Wilmer Valderrama · Actor
• Wilson Gonzalez · German actor
• Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich · Kenyan long distance runner
• Wilson Valdez · film director
• Wilson Whineray · New Zealand rugby union player and businessman (1935–2012)
• Wiltrud Probst · German tennis player
• Wim Geestman · Dutch baseball player (1920-1991)
• Wim Thoelke · entrepreneur
• Wim van Heel · field hockey player (1922–1972)
• Wim Wenders · German filmmaker (born 1945)
• Win Remmerswaal · baseball player (1954–2022)
• Winfried Frey · actor
• Winfried Müller · German physician
• Winifred Asprey · American computer scientist and mathematician (1917–2007)
• Winifred Wagner · Wife of Siegfried Wagner (1897–1980)
• Winnie Byanyima · entrepreneur
• Winnie Harlow · Model, Spokesperson, Activist
• Winnie Madikizela-Mandela · Notable Trials
• Winona Ryder · Actor
• Winsome Frazier · basketball player
• Winston Bogarde · Dutch footballer
• Winston Churchill · politician
• Winter (Kim Min-jeong) · K-pop Idol (aespa)
• Wisława Szymborska · YouTube personality
• Wissam Ben Yedder · Notable Trials
• Witold Conti · Polish actor (1908-1944)
• Wladimir Klitschko · athlete
• Władysław Klabiński · Polish sportsperson (1925-2004)
• Władysław Komar · athletics competitor (1940-1998)
• Władysław Pobóg-Malinowski · Polish historian (1899–1962)
• Władysław Raczkiewicz · military person
• Władysław Walter · Polish actor (1887–1959)
• Wojciech Jaruzelski · military person
• Wojciech Korfanty · journalist
• Wojciech Młynarski · Polish singer (1941–2017)
• Wojciech Zaremba · Actor
• Wole Soyinka · YouTube personality
• Wolf Ackva · actor (1911-2000)
• Wolf Bickel · German astronomer
• Wolf Blitzer · American journalist and television news anchor (born 1948)
• Wolf Danny Homann · Actor
• Wolf Gerlach · German writer and inventor (1928-2012)
• Wolf Gremm · German film director (1942-2015)
• Wolf Haas · writer
• Wolf Kahler · German actor (born 1940)
• Wolf Mittler · German radio host (1918–2002)
• Wolf Muser · German actor (1950–2022)
• Wolf Rüdiger Hess · Architect and writer; Son of Rudolf Hess (1937-2001)
• Wolf von Lojewski · German journalist and author
• Wolf Wondratschek · German author
• Wolf-Dieter Storl · German-American cultural anthropologist, ethnobotanist and author
• Wolfdietrich Schnurre · German writer (1920–1989)
• Wolff Schoemaker · Dutch architect (1882-1949), active in Bandung, Indonesia (1882–1949)
• Wolfgang Abel · anthropologist (1905-1997)
• Wolfgang Abendroth · scientist
• Wolfgang Abraham · German footballer (1942-2013)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Composer and musician
• Wolfgang Ambros · Austrian singer-songwriter
• Wolfgang Bächler · German actor and writer (1925-2007)
• Wolfgang Bauer · Austrian writer (1941-2005)
• Wolfgang Baumgart · Olympic medalist (1949-2011)
• Wolfgang Behrendt · German television presenter and news presenter
• Wolfgang Böhmer · German politician (1936–2025)
• Wolfgang Boos · German ice hockey and tennis player
• Wolfgang Borchert · writer
• Wolfgang Boss · rapper
• Wolfgang Clement · journalist
• Wolfgang de Beer · German footballer (1964–2024)
• Wolfgang Euteneuer · German footballer
• Wolfgang Fierek · actor
• Wolfgang Frank · German football player and manager (1951–2013)
• Wolfgang Gartner · rapper
• Wolfgang Glück · Austrian filmmaker (1929–2023)
• Wolfgang Gockel · German archaeologist (1945–2005)
• Wolfgang Grönebaum · actor (1927-1998)
• Wolfgang Großstück · German association football player (1932-2011)
• Wolfgang Heidenfeld · South African chess player (1911–1981)
• Wolfgang Heinz · actor
• Wolfgang Hilbig · German novelist (1941–2007)
• Wolfgang Hildesheimer · German author
• Wolfgang Hohlbein · writer
• Wolfgang Hünnekens · German television presenter and businessman
• Wolfgang Iser · writer
• Wolfgang Joop · actor
• Wolfgang Kaleck · Actor
• Wolfgang Kapp · Prussian civil servant and journalist. Nominal leader of the Kapp-Putsch (1858-1922)
• Wolfgang Kieling · German actor (1924–1985)
• Wolfgang Knaller · Austrian association football player
• Wolfgang Krewe · actor
• Wolfgang Leonhard · German author, historian (1921–2014)
• Wolfgang Liebeneiner · German actor, theatre and film director (1905–1987)
• Wolfgang Lukschy · German actor (1905–1983)
• Wolfgang Maria Bauer · German television actor, theatre director and author
• Wolfgang Mattheuer · German painter (1927–2004)
• Wolfgang Müller-Wiener · architectural historian (1923–1991)
• Wolfgang Muthspiel · Austrian jazz guitarist and record label owner
• Wolfgang Neuss · musician
• Wolfgang Niersbach · German sports journalists and sports official
• Wolfgang Nonn · West German field hockey player (1935-1959)
• Wolfgang Ostwald · chemist
• Wolfgang Overath · German footballer
• Wolfgang Peter Geller · German photographer and entrepreneur
• Wolfgang Petry · German pop singer and songwriter
• Wolfgang Pissors · German actor
• Wolfgang Popp · West German tennis player
• Wolfgang Reichmann · German actor (1932-1991)
• Wolfgang Reinhold · military person
• Wolfgang Reitzle · German businessman
• Wolfgang Rihm · YouTube personality
• Wolfgang Sachs · scientist
• Wolfgang Schäuble · politician
• Wolfgang Schulte · politician
• Wolfgang Sohm · Austrian artist
• Wolfgang Staehle · German artist (born 1950)
• Wolfgang Stammberger · German politician (1920-1982)
• Wolfgang Steinitz · German ethnologist (1905-1967)
• Wolfgang Strödter · German field hockey player (1948–2021)
• Wolfgang Stumph · actor
• Wolfgang Thonke · scientist
• Wolfgang Uhlmann · German chess player (1935-2020)
• Wolfgang Unzicker · German chess grandmaster (1925-2006)
• Wolfgang Voigt · rapper
• Wolfgang Volz · German photographer (born 1948)
• Wolfgang Wagner · writer
• Wolfgang Wahl · German actor and voice actor (1925–2006)
• Wolfgang Weber · German journalist (1902–1985)
• Wolfgang Zeidler · German federal judge (1924–1987)
• Wolfgang Ziffer · German actor (1941–2022)
• Wolfhart Pannenberg · German theologian (1928–2014)
• Wolfram Eilenberger · German journalist and philosopher
• Wolfram Siebeck · German television presenter, journalist and author (1928–2016)
• Wolter Kroes · singer
• Wolter Wierbos · Dutch musician
• Wong Kar-wai · Chinese-born Hong Kong filmmaker (born 1958)
• Wonwoo (Jeon Won-woo) · K-pop Idol (SEVENTEEN)
• Wonyoung (Jang Won-young) · K-pop Idol (IVE)
• Wood Harris · Actor
• Woodrow Wilson · president of the United States from 1913 to 1921
• Woody Allen · Filmmaker, Writer, Actor
• Woody Bledsoe · American mathematician and computer scientist (1921–1995)
• Woody Crumbo · Potawatomi artist from Oklahoma (1912-1989)
• Woody Guthrie · singer
• Woody Harrelson · Actor
• Woody Schabata · musician
• Woolly Wolstenholme · British musician (1947–2010)
• Wooyoung (Jung Woo-young) · K-pop Idol (ATEEZ)
• Woozi (Lee Ji-hoon) · K-pop Idol (SEVENTEEN)
• Wotan Wilke Möhring · musician
• Wouter Spoelman · Dutch chess player
• Wrenn Schmidt · Actor
• Wu Jingbiao · Chinese weightlifter
• Wu Naiqun · basketball player
• Wu Qinglong · Chinese basketball player
• Wu Ying · former 6th richest woman in China, sentenced to death for financial fraud
• Wu Yize · Snooker player
• Wunder · Danish electronic sports player
• Wyatt Crockett · New Zealand rugby union player
• Wyatt Russell · Actor
• Wyclef Jean · Haitian rapper
• Wyn Hoop · German singer
• Wynand Olivier · South African rugby union footballer
• Wynton Rufer · New Zealand association football player