Historic figures: W
- William Wallace (c. 1270 - 1305) - Scottish patriot and national hero
- Barnes Wallis (1887 - 1979) - World War Two aviation engineer, invented the 'bouncing bomb'
- Sir Robert Walpole (1676 - 1745) - considered Britain's first prime minister
- Andy Warhol (1928-1987) - 20th century artist
- George Washington (1732-1799) - American revolutionary, general, first US president
- Watson and Crick (1928- ) - discovered structure of DNA, Nobel prize winners
- James Watt (1736 - 1819) - 18th-19th century pioneer of steam technology
- Josiah Wedgwood (1730 - 1795) - 18th century social reformer, manufacturer
- Duke of Wellington (1769 - 1852) - 18th-19th century British general, national hero
- Frank Whittle (1907 - 1996) - 20th century pioneer of the jet engine
- William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833) - 18th-19th century anti-slavery campaigner
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) - Victorian playwright, jailed for his homosexuality
- Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) - kaiser of Germany during World War One, abdicated
- John Wilkinson (1728 - 1808) - 18th century pioneer of the use of cast iron
- William the Conqueror (c.1028 - c.1087) - first Norman king of England
- William II (Rufus) (c.1056 - 1100) - Norman king of England, killed while hunting
- William III (of Orange) (1650-1702) - king of England, Scotland, Ireland, deposed James II
- William IV (1765-1837) - 19th century king of the United Kingdom
- Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) - World War One US president, envisioned the League of Nations
- Thomas Wolsey (c.1475-1530) - statesman, lord chancellor to Henry VIII
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) - 18th-19th century Romantic poet
- Sir Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723) - 17th-18th century architect, built St Paul's Cathedral
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