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Waalkes, Otto - (born 1948), comedian
Waals, Johannes Diderik van der - (1837-1923), chemist
Wace, Robert - (c. 1115-c. 1183), poet
Wachs, Caitlin - (born 1989), actress
Waddell, Rube - (1876-1914), Baseball Hall of Famer
Waddey, Raymond - painter
Waddle, Chris - (born 1960), athlete
Wade, George - (1673-1748), British soldier
Wade, Virginia - (born 1945), English tennis player
Wadlow, Robert Pershing - (1918-1940), US tallest man in the world
Waerden, Bartel Leendert van der - (1903-1996), mathematician
Wagner, Honus - US baseball player
Wagner, Otto - (1841-1918), architect
Wagner, Richard - (1813-1883), German composer
Wagner, Robert - (born 1930), US television personality
Wagner, Warren H. - US botanist
Wagstaff, Patty - (born C. 1968), Hall of Fame American pilot
Wahlberg, Donnie - (born 1969), actor, singer
Wahlberg, Mark - (born 1971), ("Marky Mark"), US singer, actor
Wahlen, Friedrich Traugott - (1899-1985), Swiss Federal Councilor
Wai, Tony Leung Chiu - (born 1962), English actor
Wailer, Bunny - of Bob Marley & the Wailers and a solo career
Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, IV - (1883-1953), major general in the defense of Bataan and Corregidor
Wainwright, Rufus - songwriter
Waite, Terry - (born 1939), British hostage turned negotiator
Waits, Tom - (born 1949), US singer, songwriter and pianist
Waitz, Grete - long distance runner
Wajda, Andrzej - (born 1926)
Wakata, Koichi - astronaut
Wake, Nancy - (born 1912), French Resistance fighter and SOE agent
Wake, William - (1657-1737), Archbishop of Canterbury
Wakeman, Rick - (born 1949), musician
Wakoski, Diane - (born 1937), (The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems)
Walcott, Derek - (born 1930), poet, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1992
Walcott, Jersey Joe - (1914-1994), world boxing champion
Waldeck, Jean Frederic - (1766-1875), French antiquarian, artist, explorer
Waldegrave, William - (born 1946), UK politician
Walden, Roger - (died 1406), Archbishop of Canterbury
Waldheim, Kurt - (born 1918), Austrian politician, UN secretary general
Waldner, Jan Ove - table tennis player
Waldrop, Howard - (born 1946), US author
Waldrop, Rosmarie - poet
Waldseemuller, Martin - (circa 1470-circa 1521/1522), cartographer
Walesa, Lech - (born 1943), Polish leader of Solidarity movement and later president
Waley, Arthur - English orientalist
Walheim, Rex - astronaut
Walken, Christopher - (born 1943), US actor
Walker, Alice - (born 1944), poet, author
Walker, C. J. - she was the first African-American millionaire
Walker, Charles - astronaut
Walker, John - (born 1952), athlete
Walker, Joseph Marshall - (1786-1856) Louisiana Governor
Walker, Margaret - poet
Walker, Mickey - (1903-1981), world boxing champion
Walker, Mort - (born 1923), US cartoonist
Walker, Paul - (born 1973), actor
Walker, Reggie - (1889-1951), track and field athlete
Wall, Jeff - photographer
Wall, Larry - programmer (warp, rn, patch, Perl)
Wallace, Alfred Russel - (1823-1913), UK natural selection co-discoverer
Wallace, Bronwen - Canadian writer
Wallace, David Foster - (born 1962), USA novelist
Wallace, Edgar - (1875-1932), author
Wallace, George - (1919-1998), American politician
Wallace, Henry A. - (1888-1965), Vice President of the United States
Wallace, Irving - (1916-1990), novelist
Wallace, Lew - (1827-1905), USA novelist
Wallace, Mike - (born 1918), television personality
Wallace, William - (c. 1270-1305), Scottish patriot
Wallach, Eli - (born 1915), US actor
Wallenberg, Raoul - (born 1912), Swedish vanished diplomat
Waller, Douglas C. - author
Waller, Edmund - (1606-1687), poet
Waller, Edwin - (1800-1881), first mayor of Austin, Texas
Waller, Thomas Fats - (1904-1943), US jazz pianist & composer
Wallia - (died 419), king of the Visigoths
Wallin, Homer N. - (1893-1984), US
Wallis, Alfred - (1855-1942), painter
Wallis, Barnes - (1887-1979)
Walpole, Horace - (born 1717), British novelist and politician
Walpole, Robert - (born 1676), British prime minister
Walpole, Spencer - (1830-1907), British politician
Walras, Leon - (1834-1910), economist
Walschaerts, Egide - engineer, inventor
Walsh, Bill - (1913-1975), US movie producer and writer
Walsh, George - (1868-1913), US publisher, head of Dakota Territory's Council
Walsh, Joe - (born 1947), musician
Walsh, John - (born 1945), talk show host, television presenter
Walsh, Mary - (born 1952), Canadian actress
Walsh, Raoul - (1892-1980), film director
Walsingham, Francis - (c.1532-1590), Elizabethan spymaster
Walston, Ray - (1914-2001), 2001), US actor
Waltari, Mika - (1908-1979), Finnish author
Walter, Bruno - (1876-1962), conductor
Walter, Fritz - (1920-2002), footballer
Walter, Hellmuth - (1900-1980), German engineer and inventor
Walter, Hubert - (died 1205), Archbishop of Canterbury
Walter, Little - musician
Walter, Ulrich - (born 1954), German astronaut
Walters, Barbara - (born 1931), US television presenter
Walters, Julie - (born 1950), actor
Walton, Bill - (born 1952), basketball star, commentator
Walton, Izaak - (1593-1683), English writer
Walton, William - (1902-1983), composer
Waltrip, Darrell - (born 1947), automobile racer
Walz, Carl - astronaut
Wambaugh, Joseph - (born 1936), author
Wan Hu - Ming dynasty astronaut
Wanamaker, John - (1838-1922), USA father of the department store
Wanamaker, Sam - (1919-1993), actor
Wanamaker, Zoe - (born 1949), British actor
Wang Anshih - (1021-1086)
Wang Go - (Öljeitü), King of Shen
Wang Hongwen - (1933/1935-1992)
Wang Jin-pyng - Taiwanese politician
Wang Jingwei - (died 1944)
Wang, An - (1920-1990), Chinese-born US computer pioneer
Wang, Taylor - astronaut
Wang, Vera - (born 1949), fashion designer
Wang, Wayne - (born 1949), director
Wank, Roland - (1898-1970), architect
Wankel, Felix - (1902-1988)
Warbeck, Perkin - (died 1499), pretender to the throne of England
Ward Steinman, David - (born 1936), composer
Ward, Aaron Montgomery - (1844-1913), department store founder
Ward, Artemas - (1727-1800), American General in the Revolutionary War
Ward, Artemus - (1834-1867), US humorist, a.k.a. Charles Farrar Browne
Ward, Jay - (1920-1989), tv cartoon creator & producer
Ward, Lyman - actor
Ward, Mary Augusta - (1851-1920), English novelist
Ward, Micky - (born 1965), boxer
Ward, Rachel - (born 1957), actress
Ward, Tom - actor
Ward, Vincent - (born 1956), film director
Warden, Jack - (born 1920), actor
Wardrop, John Glen - transport economist
Ware, Chris - comic creator
Warham, William - (c. 1450-1532), Archbishop of Canterbury
Warhol, Andy - (1928-1987), US pop art painter
Waring, Edward - (1736-1798), mathematician
Wark, David - (1804-1905), Canadian politician and Senator
Warlow, Anthony - (born 1961), Australian singer
Warne, Shane - (born 1969), Australian cricketer
Warner, David - (born 1941), actor
Warner, Jack - (1892-1978), founder: Warner Bros. Studios
Warner, John - US politician
Warner, Malcolm Jamal - (born 1970), actor
Warner, Mark R. - US politician
Warnes, Jennifer - musician
Warnock, Neil - (1948- ), Football (soccer) manager
Warren, Earl - (1891-1974), governor of California, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Warren, Marc - actor
Warren, Peter - (1703-1752), British admiral
Warren, Robert Penn - (1905-1989), poet
Warton, Joseph - (1722-1800), English academic
Warton, Thomas - (1728-1790), English academic, poet laureate
Warwick, Dionne - (born 1940), musician
Washburn, Cephas - (1793-1860), missionary
Washburn, Edward - (1831-1860), artist
Washington, Baby - musician
Washington, Booker T. - (1856-1915), African-American educator
Washington, Denzel - (born 1954), US actor
Washington, Desiree - (born 1972), beauty queen
Washington, Dinah - (1924-1963), musician
Washington, George - (1732-1799), USA "Father of his country"
Washington, Martha - (1731-1802), US First Lady
Washington, William - (1752-1810), American revolutionary soldier
Watanabe Jiro - (born 1955), Japanese world champion boxer
Watanabe Kazumi - Japanese musician
Watanabe Shinichiro - Director and writer of Cowboy Bebop
Waterhouse, John William - (1849-1917), painter
Waterman, Pete - songwriter
Waters, Ethel - (1896-1977), US singer
Waters, John - (born 1946), director, writer
Waters, Muddy - (1915-1983), musician
Waters, Roger - (born 1943), of Pink Floyd
Waterston, Sam - (born 1940), actor
Watie, Stand - (1806-1871), Confederate general, Cherokee leader
Watkins, Alfred - ley hunter
Watkins, Maurice - (born 1956) former boxer, inspirator of Iraqis
Watson Watt, Robert - (1892-1973), invented radar
Watson Wentworth, Charles, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham - (1730-1782), Prime Minister
Watson, Emily - (born 1967), actress
Watson, Emma - (born 1990), British actress
Watson, James Dewey - (born 1928), Nobel Prize-winning biologist
Watson, John B. - (1878-1958), psychologist
Watson, Michael - (born 1965), British boxer
Watson, Thomas J. - (born 1874), computer pioneer, first president of IBM
Watt, James - (1736-1819), Scottish mathematician & engineer
Watt, Jim - (born 1948), Scottish world champion boxer
Watt, Mike - (born 1957), bassist
Watteau, Antoine - (1684-1721), painter
Watterson, Bill - (born 1958), US cartoonist, creator of Calvin and Hobbes
Watts, Alan - (1915-1973, Mt.)
Watts, Charlie - (born 1941), British rock musican ("The Rolling Stones")
Watts, Isaac - (1674-1748), poet
Watts, Naomi - (born 1968), actress
Waugh, Alec - (1898-1981), British writer
Waugh, Evelyn - (1903-1966), British writer
Waugh, Steve - Australian cricketer
Wavell, Archibald - (born 1883), field marshal
Wax, Ruby - (born 1953), television personality
Wayans, Damon - (born 1960), comedian
Wayans, Keenan Ivory - (born 1958), US comedian
Wayans, Shawn - (born 1971), actor, writer, producer
Wayne, Anthony - (1745-1796)
Wayne, John - (1907-1979), US actor
Wayne, Johnny - (1918-1990), comedian
Wayne, Naunton - (1901-1970), actor
William Ralph Inge - (1860-1954), writer, clergyman
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