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Dictionary - People

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
Concise biographies of noteworthy people in history, sports, politics, business and entertainment from the respected American Heritage Dictionary — when the people flourished, what they accomplished and why they're famous.
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Wasserstein, Wendy (American dramatist)
Waters, Ethel (Vocal Music Artist)
Waters, Muddy (Blues Artist)
Watson, Thomas Augustus (American telephone pioneer)
Watson, Thomas John (American businessman & 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)
Wayne, Anthony (American military leader)
Wayne, John (Actor)
Webb, Sidney James (British sociologist and economist)
Weber, Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von (German composer & musician)
Weber, Ernst Heinrich (German anatomist)
Weber, Max (German sociologist)
Weber, Max (American painter)
Webster, Daniel (American jurist, rhetorician & statesman)
Webster, John (English dramatist)
Webster, Noah (American linguist & non-fiction writer)
Wedgwood, Josiah (English 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)
Wellesley, First Marquis (English-Irish statesman)
Wellington, First Duke of (English military leader & statesman)
Wells, Henry (Jazz Artist)
Wells, Ida Bell (American journalist & politician)
Welty, Eudora (Writer)
Wenceslas, Saint (duke of Bohemia)
Wenceslaus (Holy Roman emperor)
Wertmüller, Lina (Italian filmmaker)
Wesley, John (English theologian)