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- Wadjet (Egyptian goddess)
- Wadsworth, Edward (artist)
- Wagner, Johann Jakob (artist)
- Walesa, Lech (labour activist, Presindet of Poland)
- Wang Gai (artist)
- Wang Mang (emperor of China)
- Wang Nie (artist)
- Wang Shi (artist)
- Warhol, Andy (artist)
- Warin, Jean (medallist)
- Washington, George (president of the United States of America)
- Watanabe Gentai (artist)
- Watanabe Kazan (painter)
- Watanabe Nangaku (artist)
- Watanabe Shōtei (artist)
- Watt, James (steam engine inventor)
- Watteau, Jean-Antoine (artist)
- Wechtlin, Hans (artist)
- Wedgwood, Josiah (potter)
- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley (1st Duke of Wellington)
- Wen Chang (Chinese Taoist god)
- Wen Zhenming (artist)
- West, Benjamin (artist)
- Westmacott, Sir Richard (sculptor)
- Weyden, Rogier van der (artist)
- Weydmann, Lucas (clockmaker)
- Whistler, James McNeill (artist)
- White, John (artist)
- Whiteread, Rachel (artist)
- Wilde, Oscar (poet and dramatist)
- Wilkie, Sir David (artist)
- Willaume, David (silversmith)
- William I (king of England)
- William II (king of England)
- William III (king of Great Britain)
- William IV (king of Great Britain and Ireland, and Hanover)
- Williams, Fred (artist)
- Wilton, Joseph (sculptor)
- Wissing, Willem (artist)
- Wood, Henry Joseph (conductor)
- Wood, Sir John Turtle (archaeologist)
- Woolley, Charles Leonard (archaeologist)
- Wren, Sir Christopher (architect)
- Wright, Frank Lloyd (architect)
- Wu Guanzhong (artist)
- Wyon, Benjamin (engraver)
- Wyon, Joseph (medallist)
- Wyon, William (engraver)