Name
- Wesley, Joseph, brother of John Wesley, fl 17701
- West, Andrew F, president of Princeton University1
- West, Benjamin, painter1
- Westcott, Brooke Foss, theologian, biblical scholar and Bishop of Durham, 1825-19011
- Westmacott, Richard, the elder, sculptor1
- Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, painter, 1834-19031
- Whitman, Walt, poet, 1819-18921
- Whymper, Edward, mountaineer1
- Wilberforce, Samuel, Bishop of Oxford and of Winchester, fl 18691
- Wilkie, David, Knight, painter, 1785-18411
- Wilkinson, Margaret T1
- Wilks, Samuel, Baronet , physician1
- Wilson, Edith Bolling, 2nd wife of President W Wilson1
- Wilson, Thomas Woodrow, US President1
- Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick Stephen, Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster1
- Wister, Owen, American author1
- Wollaston, William Hyde, physiologist chemist and physicist1
- Wood, Derwent, artist1
- Woolner, Thomas, sculptor and poet1
- Wordsworth, Christopher, Bishop of Lincoln1