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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
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Wasserstein, Wendy (American playwright)
Waters, Ethel (Vocal Music Artist)
Waters, Muddy (Blues Artist)
Watson, Thomas Augustus (American telephone pioneer)
Watson, Thomas John (American businessman/businesswoman & computer scientist)
Watson, Thomas Sturges (American golfer)
Watt, James (Inventor)
Watteau, Jean Antoine (French painter)
Watts, George Frederick (English painter & sculptor)
Watts, Isaac (English theologian & musician)
Wavell, Archibald Percival (English-Indian military leader & statesman/stateswoman)
Wayne, Anthony (American military leader)
Wayne, John (Actor)
Webb, Sidney James (British sociologist and economist)
Weber, Ernst Heinrich (German anatomist)
Weber, Max (American painter)
Weber, Max (German sociologist)
Webster, Daniel (American jurist, rhetorician & statesman/stateswoman)
Webster, John (English dramatist)
Webster, Noah (Lexographer / Writer)
Wedgwood, Josiah (personage)
Weems, Mason Locke (American writer & theologian)
Wegener, Alfred Lothar (German geologist, meteorologist & explorer)
Wei (Chinese dynasties ruling)
Weierstrass, Karl Theodor Wilhelm (German mathematician)
Weil, André (French mathematician)
Weil, Simone (French philosopher & mystic)
Weill, Kurt (German-American composer & dramatist)
Weissmuller, Johnny (American swimmer and actor)
Weizmann, Chaim Azriel (Israeli Jewish scientist & president)
Weld, Theodore Dwight (American politician & sociologist)
Weller, Thomas Huckle (American microbiologist & physician)
Welles, (George) Orson (Actor / Filmmaker)
Welles, Gideon (American statesman/stateswoman)
Wellesley, First Marquis (English-Irish statesman/stateswoman)
Wellington, First Duke of (English military leader & statesman/stateswoman)
Wells, Henry (Jazz Artist)
Wells, Ida Bell (American journalist)
Welty, Eudora (Writer)
Wenceslas, Saint (duke of Bohemia)
Wenceslaus (Holy Roman emperor)
Wertmüller, Lina (Italian filmmaker)
Wesley, John (English theologian)
West, Benjamin (American-English painter)