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Will Toledo
Will Toledo is the stage name of the American singer-songwriter behind indie rock band Car Seat Headrest, from Leesburg, Virginia. Known for Bandcamp lo-fi albums, Teens of Denial, the Twin Fantasy re-recordings, 1 Trait Danger, and the 2025 rock opera The Scholars.
Will Tracy
Will Tracy, American screenwriter and producer; former Onion editor-in-chief; Emmy winner for Last Week Tonight and Succession; wrote The Menu, created The Regime, and wrote Bugonia, the Oscar-nominated adaptation of Save the Green Planet!.
Will Trent
Will Trent: ABC crime drama series (2023-present) adapted from Karin Slaughter's Atlanta-set novels, starring Ramón Rodríguez as a GBI special agent raised in foster care; four seasons, renewed for a fifth, filming in Atlanta.
Will Turner
Will Turner is a fictional character in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean who moves from blacksmith's apprentice to pirate, whose arc is central to the original trilogy.
Will Wade
Will Wade (Frank Williams Wade) is an American college basketball coach, head coach of LSU men's basketball in his second stint (2026-), previously LSU 2017-22, McNeese, and NC State; 266-119 career record.
Will Weaver
Will Weaver, who publishes as W. Douglas Weaver, is an American cardiologist known for emergency cardiac care research at the University of Washington and Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.
Will Wells
Will Wells is a Partner at Speedinvest leading its Deep Tech team since 2025; he previously founded agricultural AI company Hummingbird Technologies, sold to Agreena in 2022.
Will Wright (actor)
Will Wright (William Henry Wright, 1894–1962), American character actor of over 100 films and 4,000 radio shows; voice of Friend Owl in Bambi, Dolph Pillsbury in All the King's Men, and Ben Weaver on The Andy Griffith Show. Not the game designer Will Wright.
Will Wright (game designer)
Will Wright, American game designer and Maxis co-founder, creator of SimCity (1989), The Sims (2000), and Spore (2008); now at Gallium Studios working on the memory-based life sim Proxi.
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
"Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (also "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"), a 1960 Goffin-King song first recorded by the Shirelles, the first girl group to top the Billboard Hot 100, with noted covers by Carole King, Amy Winehouse, and dozens more.
Will Young
Will Young, English singer and actor, won the first Pop Idol in 2002; debut Evergreen/Anything Is Possible was the noughties' best-selling single; four UK No 1 singles and albums, Olivier-nominated actor.
Will Yun Lee
Will Yun Lee is a Korean-American actor born in Arlington, Virginia, known as Colonel Moon in Die Another Day, Takeshi Kovacs in Altered Carbon, and Dr. Alex Park in The Good Doctor, with a Taekwondo background and roles in The Wolverine, Elektra, and Sleeping Dogs.
Will Zalatoris
Will Zalatoris, American PGA Tour golfer from San Francisco/Dallas, Wake Forest and 2017 Walker Cup; 2022 FedEx St. Jude winner, runner-up in three majors, world No. 7 peak, recurring back surgeries.
Will-o'-the-wisp
Will-o'-the-wisp, or ignis fatuus, is a ghostly blue light seen at night over marshes and graveyards, long blamed on burning swamp gas and explained in 2025 by microlightning between methane microbubbles.
Will.i.am
Will.i.am (William James Adams Jr., born 1975, Los Angeles) is a Black Eyed Peas founder, solo artist, producer for Fergie and Usher, Beats Electronics stakeholder, FYI.AI CEO, and STEAM philanthropist.
Willa A. Hsueh
Willa A. Hsueh is an American physician-scientist in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism who directs the Diabetes and Metabolism Research Center at Ohio State University, studying how inflammation drives metabolic disease.
Willa Brown
Willa Brown, born Willa Beatrice Brown, was an American aviator and flight instructor who co-founded the Coffey School of Aeronautics in Chicago and trained Tuskegee Airmen.
Willa Cather
Willa Cather (Wilella Sibert Cather, 1873–1947), American novelist and McClure's editor from Red Cloud, Nebraska; wrote O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop; won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours.
Willa Fitzgerald
Willa Fitzgerald (born 1991, Nashville) is an American actress known for MTV's Scream: The TV Series, Reacher season 1, The Fall of the House of Usher, and her acclaimed lead role as The Lady in the 2024 thriller Strange Darling.
Willa Ford
Willa Ford (Amanda Lee Williford), American pop singer, actress, and interior designer; 2001 hit "I Wanna Be Bad" and album Willa Was Here; later WFord Interiors and Flip It Like Disick; comeback album amanda, 2026.
Willa Holland
Willa Holland (born 1991), American actress, voice actress and model, known as Kaitlin Cooper on The O.C., Agnes Andrews on Gossip Girl, Thea Queen/Speedy on Arrow for eight seasons, voice of Aqua in Kingdom Hearts, and lead of The Mortuary Assistant film.
Willam Belli
Willam Belli is an American drag queen, actor, and author who is known for the role of Cherry Peck in Nip/Tuck. He also competed on RuPaul's Drag Race in 2012.
Willamette Valley
Willamette Valley: broad river valley in western Oregon between the Coast Range and Cascades, extending about 150 miles from the Columbia River to the Calapooya Divide; Oregon's population and agricultural heartland, shaped by Missoula Floods, Kalapuyan burning, wheat and grass seed farming, and Pinot Noir wine.
Willandra Lakes Region (site)
The Willandra Lakes Region is a World Heritage protected area in far south-western New South Wales, Australia, preserving dry Pleistocene lakes and human remains about 40,000 years old.
Willaq Umu
Willaq Umu was the high priest of the Sun in the Inca Empire, resident at Cusco's Temple of the Sun until the Spanish conquest of 1532.
Willard (1971 film)
Willard (1971), also known by its working title Ratman's Notebooks, is a Daniel Mann horror film starring Bruce Davison as a misfit who trains rats, including Ben and Socrates, to kill his tormentor, played by Ernest Borgnine.
Willard (2003 film)
Willard (2003) is a New Line Cinema horror remake directed by Glen Morgan, starring Crispin Glover as a misfit who trains rats, including Socrates and Ben, to take revenge; grossed $6.9M, Metascore 61.
Willard Cates
Willard Cates Jr. (1942–2016), known as Ward Cates, was an American physician-epidemiologist who led CDC abortion surveillance and STD prevention, then HIV prevention research at FHI 360.
Willard F. Libby
Willard F. Libby was an American physical chemist who developed radiocarbon dating, the carbon-14 method for dating ancient materials, winning the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Willard F. Searle Jr.
Willard F. Searle Jr. was an American ocean engineer and Navy officer who served as Supervisor of Diving and Salvage and led the Palomares H-bomb recovery.