- Walt Disney
- Walter Cronkite
- Warren Buffett
- Washington Irving
- Wayne Dyer
- Wilbur Wright
- Will Durant
- Will James
- Will Rogers
- William Congreve
- William Faulkner
- William Hazlitt
- William Hurrell Mallock
- William James
- William Jennings Bryan
- William Morrison
- William Murray
- William Penn
- William Shakespeare
- William Temple Hornaday
- Winston Churchill
- Woody Allen
