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- Wachsmuth, Ernst Wilhelm Gottlieb
- Wade, Benjamin Franklin
- Wade, John
- Wagener, Hermann
- Wagner, Adolph
- Wagner, Helmut [Rudolf Sprenger]
- Wagner, Ricardo
- Waitz, Georg
- Wakefield, Edward Gibbon
- Walcher, Jacob
- Waldersee, Friedrich Gustav conde de
- Walesa, Lech
- Wallace, Robert
- Wallon, Henri
- Wang Ching-wei
- Wang Dongxing
- Wang Ming
- Ward, James
- Ward, John
- Warren, Charles
- Warszawski, A. S. (Warski, Adolf)
- Washington, George
- Wasilewska, Wanda
- Watson, John Forbes
- Watt, James
- Watts, John
- Wayland, Francis
- Webb, Martha Beatrice Potter
- Webb, Sidney
- Weber, Max
- Weddings
- Wedgwood, Josiah
- Weems, George Hatton
- Weerth, George Ludwig
- Weinstone, William Wolf
- Weisbord, Albert
- Weisshaus, Aladár
- Weitling, Wilhelm
- Welcker, Karl Théodore
- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, duque de
- Wels, Otto
- Wermuth
- Werth, Henrik
- West, Sir Edward
- Westermarck, Erward Alexander
- Westphalen, Ferdinand Otto Wilhelm von
- Weydemeyer, Joseph
- Whewell, William
- Whig
- Whitbread, Samuel
- Whitney, Eli
- Whyte, Harry
- Wijnkoop, David
- Wilks, Mark
- Willard, Marcel
- Williams, Richard Price
- Willich, August
- Willy, Rudolf
- Wilson, Horace John
- Wilson, James
- Windelband, Wilhelm
- Wilson, Woodrow
- Windíschgrätz, Alfred, príncipe
- Wirth, Max
- Wirth, Moritz
- Witt, Johan de
- Witte, Serguéi Iúlievitch
- Wohlthat, Helmuth C. H.
- Wolfe, Bertram David
- Wolff, Caspar Friedrich
- Wolff, Christian
- Wolf, Wilhelm
- Wolfram von Eschenbach
- Woll, Matthew
- Woltmann, Ludwig
- Wood, Charles
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins
- Workhouses (Casas de Trabalho)
- Worms, Alfonse Ernéstovitch
- Wrangel, Friedrich Henrich Ernst
- Wrangel, Pyotr Nikolayevich
- Wright, Asher (Arthur)
- Wright, John G. (Joseph "Usick" Vanzler)
- Wright, Thomas
- Wróblewski, Walery
- Wundt, Wilhelm
- Wyatt, John