| Irvah Lester Winter | 1857–1934 | 1 |
| John Strange Winter | 1856–1911 | 1 |
| Milo Winter | 1888–1956 | 6 |
| William Winter | 1836–1917 | 1 |
| R. R. (Russell Robert) Winterbotham | 1904–1971 | 1 |
| Louis Wisa | 1873–1953 | 7 |
| Daniel Wise | 1813–1898 | 1 |
| Thomas A. (Thomas Alfred) Wise | 1865–1928 | 1 |
| Thomas James Wise | 1859–1937 | 1 |
| S. E. (Samuel Ellis) Wishard | 1825–1915 | 1 |
| Alfred Wesley Wishart | 1865–1933 | 1 |
| Owen Wister | 1860–1938 | 10 |
| Johanna Sara Wisthaler | born 1868 | 1 |
| George Wither | 1588–1667 | 1 |
| William Withering | 1741–1799 | 1 |
| Hartley Withers | 1867–1950 | 3 |
| W. H. (William Henry) Withrow | 1839–1908 | 1 |
| Philipp Witkop | 1880–1942 | 1 |
| Madame de (Henriette Elizabeth) Witt | 1829–1908 | 1 |
| Johann Heinrich Friedrich Karl Witte | 1800–1883 | — |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | 1889–1951 | 1 |
| Engelbert Wittich | 1878–1937 | 1 |
| P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse | 1881–1975 | 39 |
| Roman Woerner | 1863–1945 | — |
| Edwin Wolf | 1911–1991 | 1 |
| Emma Wolf | 1865–1932 | 1 |
| George D. Wolf | born 1923 | 1 |
| A. A. (Abraham Alexander) Wolff | 1801–1891 | 1 |
| Elizabeth Bekker Wolff | 1738–1804 | 1 |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | 1759–1797 | 5 |
| Wolseley, Garnet Wolseley, Viscount | 1833–1913 | 1 |
| Anne Topan Wilbur Wood | 1817–1864 | 1 |
| Benjamin Wood | 1820–1900 | 1 |
| Charles W. (Charles William) Wood | 1841–1919 | 6 |
| Eugene Wood | 1860–1923 | 1 |
| Wood, Henry, Mrs. | 1814–1887 | 4 |
| J. G. (John George) Wood | 1827–1889 | 1 |
| Wood, James, Rev. | 1820–1901 | 1 |
| John Taylor Wood | 1830–1904 | — |
| Louis Aubrey Wood | 1883–1955 | 1 |
| Robert Williams Wood | 1868–1955 | 2 |
| Stanley L. Wood | 1866–1928 | 6 |
| T. Martin Wood | 1875–1919 | 1 |
| Thomas Wood | born 1883 | 1 |
| Wallace Wood | 1927–1981 | 2 |
| William Wood | 1864–1947 | 12 |
| George Edward Woodberry | 1855–1930 | 3 |
| James Albert Woodburn | 1856–1943 | 5 |
| Lucia Prudence Hall Woodbury | born 1848 | 1 |
| Henry Woodcock | born 1830 | 1 |
| Thomas Woodhouse | 1862–1933 | 1 |
| Carter Godwin Woodson | 1875–1950 | 2 |
| Ashbel Woodward | 1804–1885 | 1 |
| George E. (George Evertson) Woodward | 1829–1905 | 1 |
| George Ratcliffe Woodward | 1848–1934 | 1 |
| Josiah Woodward | 1660–1712 | 1 |
| P. H. (Patrick Henry) Woodward | 1833–1917 | — |
| Francis C. (Francis Channing) Woodworth | 1812–1859 | 5 |
| Leonard Woolf | 1880–1969 | 1 |
| Virginia Woolf | 1882–1941 | 3 |
| Alexander Woollcott | 1887–1943 | — |
| L. H. (Lell Hawley) Woolley | born 1825 | 1 |
| Mary Emma Woolley | 1863–1947 | 1 |
| Mary Schenck Woolman | 1860–1940 | 1 |
| Thomas Woolner | 1825–1892 | 1 |
| Constance Fenimore Woolson | 1840–1894 | 3 |
| Dean C. (Dean Conant) Worcester | 1866–1924 | 1 |
| John Lorimer Worden | 1818–1897 | 1 |
| William Wordsworth | 1770–1850 | 10 |
| Milton C. (Milton Cooper) Work | 1864–1934 | 1 |
| James Timbrell Worlton | born 1877 | 1 |
| Katharine Prescott Wormeley | 1830–1908 | 46 |
| John H. (John Henry) Worst | 1850–1945 | 2 |
| W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander) Worster | 1882–1929 | 4 |
| W. Fitzwater Wray | 1867–1938 | 2 |
| Percival Christopher Wren | 1885–1941 | 2 |
| Charles L. (Charles Lewis) Wrenn | 1880–1952 | 7 |
| Almroth Wright | 1861–1947 | 1 |
| Bruce S. (Bruce Simpson) Wright | 1879–1942 | 1 |
| C. T. Hagberg (Charles Theodore Hagberg) Wright | 1862–1940 | 1 |