List of Famous people named W

William Gershom Collingwood was an English author, artist, antiquary and professor of Fine Arts at University College, Reading. He was a former President of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian Society and the Lake Artists' Society.

William Donald Hamilton, FRS was an British evolutionary biologist, widely recognised as one of the most significant evolutionary theorists of the 20th century.

Wagino Dachrin Mochtar was an Indonesian actor and the husband of Sofia W.D.. He starred in Badai-Selatan (1962), Samiun dan Dasima (1971), Sanrego (1971), and Mystics in Bali (1981).

William Thomas Tutte OC FRS FRSC was a British-born Canadian codebreaker and mathematician. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system which was used for top-secret communications within the Wehrmacht High Command. The high-level, strategic nature of the intelligence obtained from Tutte's crucial breakthrough, in the bulk decrypting of Lorenz-enciphered messages specifically, contributed greatly, and perhaps even decisively, to the defeat of Nazi Germany. He also had a number of significant mathematical accomplishments, including foundation work in the fields of graph theory and matroid theory.

Wilbert Ross Thatcher, was the ninth Premier of Saskatchewan, Canada, serving from May 22, 1964 to June 30, 1971.

William Thomas Cosgrave was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1932, Leader of the Opposition in both the Free State and Ireland from 1932 to 1944, Leader of Fine Gael from 1934 to 1944, founder and leader of Fine Gael's predecessor, Cumann na nGaedheal, from 1923 to 1933, Chairman of the Provisional Government from August 1922 to December 1922, President of Dáil Éireann from September 1922 to December 1922, Minister for Finance from 1922 to 1923 and Minister for Local Government from 1919 to 1922. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1921 to 1944. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for the North Kilkenny constituency from 1918 to 1922.

W. Franke Harling was a composer of film scores, operas, and popular music.

Sir William Vallance Douglas Hodge was a British mathematician, specifically a geometer.

Werner Michael Blumenthal is a German-born American business leader, economist and political adviser who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1979.

William George "Bill" Unruh is a Canadian physicist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver who described the hypothetical Unruh effect in 1976.