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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)
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