| Marie D. (Marie Daugherty) Webster | 1859–1956 | 1 |
| Nesta Helen Webster | 1876–1960 | 1 |
| Noah Webster | 1758–1843 | 13 |
| Thomas Webster | 1809–1901 | 1 |
| J. J. (Josef Julius) Wecksell | 1838–1907 | 2 |
| George Ludington Weed | 1828–1904 | 1 |
| Ernest Weekley | 1865–1954 | 2 |
| M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems | 1759–1825 | 1 |
| Zi'an Wei | 1819–1874 | 2 |
| Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall | 1880–1934 | 1 |
| Yrjö Weijola | 1875–1930 | 1 |
| Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum | 1902–1935 | 6 |
| Arthur Weir | 1864–1902 | 1 |
| Harrison Weir | 1824–1906 | 8 |
| Weir, James, Jr. | 1856–1906 | 2 |
| August Weismann | 1834–1914 | — |
| Carl Weiss | born 1887 | 1 |
| George Henry Weiss | 1898–1946 | 1 |
| Frances A. (Frances Alice) Welby | 1862–1947 | 2 |
| Julius Wellhausen | 1844–1918 | 1 |
| Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of | 1769–1852 | 1 |
| Manly Wade Wellman | 1903–1986 | 1 |
| B. W. (Benjamin Willis) Wells | 1856–1923 | 1 |
| Carolyn Wells | 1862–1942 | 27 |
| Frederic DeWitt Wells | 1874–1929 | 1 |
| H. G. (Herbert George) Wells | 1866–1946 | 41 |
| J. (Joseph) Wells | 1855–1929 | 2 |
| Philip P. (Philip Patterson) Wells | 1868–1929 | 1 |
| Ida B. Wells-Barnett | 1862–1931 | 3 |
| Charles Welsh | 1850–1914 | 3 |
| James C. Welsh | 1880–1954 | 1 |
| Mr. (Leonard) Welsted | 1688–1747 | 1 |
| Mary C. E. Wemyss | 1868–1951 | 1 |
| Barrett Wendell | 1855–1921 | 1 |
| Lehman Wendell | 1878–1977 | 1 |
| active Wenkang | 1842–1851 | 1 |
| George Unangst Wenner | 1844–1934 | 1 |
| Marion Craig Wentworth | 1872–1942 | 1 |
| W. C. (William Charles) Wentworth | 1790–1872 | 1 |
| A. B. (Albert Beck) Wenzell | 1864–1917 | 3 |
| Erik Theodor Werenskiold | 1855–1938 | — |
| Henrik Arnold Wergeland | 1808–1845 | 2 |
| E. Werner | 1838–1918 | 1 |
| E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner | 1864–1954 | 1 |
| Carl Weschcke | 1894–1973 | 1 |
| Samuel Wesley | 1662–1735 | 1 |
| Joanna Petronella Wesselink-van Rossum | 1860–1930 | — |
| Jane West | 1758–1852 | 1 |
| John West | 1778–1845 | 3 |
| Julius West | 1891–1918 | 1 |
| Rebecca West | 1892–1983 | 1 |
| Allan F. (Allan Ferguson) Westcott | 1882–1953 | 1 |
| Edward Noyes Westcott | 1847–1898 | 2 |
| William Westgarth | 1815–1889 | 1 |
| George Weston | 1880–1965 | 1 |
| Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston | 1850–1928 | 2 |
| A. Ethelwyn Wetherald | 1857–1940 | 1 |
| Wilhelm Laurits Wetlesen | 1871–1925 | — |
| Cornelius Weygandt | 1871–1957 | 1 |
| Stanley John Weyman | 1855–1928 | 9 |
| Richard Francis Weymouth | 1822–1902 | 28 |
| Emil Weyr | 1848–1894 | 1 |
| Winifred Stephens Whale | 1870–1944 | 1 |
| Edith Wharton | 1862–1937 | 31 |
| Philip Wharton | 1834–1860 | 3 |
| W. J. L. (William James Lloyd) Wharton | 1843–1905 | 1 |
| William H. (William Harris) Wharton | 1802–1839 | 1 |
| Richard Whately | 1787–1863 | 1 |
| George Seay Wheat | 1886–1937 | 1 |
| Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) Wheatley | 1838–1917 | 87 |
| Phillis Wheatley | 1753–1784 | 1 |
| Candace Wheeler | 1827–1923 | 2 |
| Daniel Edwin Wheeler | born 1880 | — |
| John T. (John Tyler) Wheelwright | 1856–1925 | 1 |
| Charles Whibley | 1859–1930 | 2 |
| George Frisbie Whicher | 1889–1954 | 1 |
| Edwin Percy Whipple | 1819–1886 | 1 |
| Henry Benjamin Whipple | 1822–1901 | 1 |
| Wayne Whipple | 1856–1942 | 3 |
| Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler | 1856–1913 | 8 |