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W. O. Mitchell
W. O. Mitchell, full name William Ormond Mitchell, was a Canadian novelist and broadcaster best known for Who Has Seen the Wind (1947) and Jake and the Kid.
W. P. Franklin Lock and Dam
The W. P. Franklin Lock and Dam, also called Structure S-79, is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers navigation lock and dam on the Caloosahatchee River in Lee County, Florida.
W. P. Kelley
W. P. Kelley (Walter Pearson Kelley) was an American soil chemist, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1943, known for work on alkali soils and ion exchange.
W. Pagé Faulk
W. Pagé Faulk, also published as W. Page Faulk, is an immunologist known for research on placental immunology, transplantation, and wound repair, including a 1980 Lancet study of human amnion in wound healing.
W. Paul Glezen
W. Paul Glezen, born William Paul Glezen, was an American influenza epidemiologist at Baylor College of Medicine whose Houston surveillance showed flu spreads through schoolchildren, supporting child vaccination.
W. Pete Welch
W. Pete Welch is an American health economist known for 1990s New England Journal of Medicine studies of geographic variation in Medicare physician spending, and for policy work at CBO and HHS.
W. Peter Iliff
W. Peter Iliff (born 1957) is an American screenwriter known for Point Break (1991), Patriot Games, and Varsity Blues; sole WGA screenplay credit on Point Break despite James Cameron's 2025 claim; directed Rites of Passage (2012).
W. R. Berkley
W. R. Berkley Corporation is an American insurance holding company founded in 1967, a Fortune 500 member writing commercial lines through roughly 60 specialty underwriting businesses worldwide.
W. R. Burnett
W. R. Burnett (William Riley Burnett, 1899-1982), American crime novelist and screenwriter, author of Little Caesar, High Sierra, and The Asphalt Jungle; 36 novels, 60 screenwriting credits, MWA Grand Master.
W. R. Dean
W. R. Dean was a British mathematician whose 1927 and 1928 papers on laminar flow in curved pipes identified Dean vortices and the Dean number.
W. Randall Jones
W. Randall Jones is an American magazine executive, author, and entrepreneur who founded Worth magazine in 1991, led it until 2003, and wrote The Richest Man in Town.
W. Richard McCombie
W. Richard McCombie, known as Richard McCombie, is a genomics researcher and Davis Family Professor of Human Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, known for high-throughput DNA sequencing.
W. Robert Marshall
W. Robert Marshall (1916–1988) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who put spray drying on a quantitative engineering footing and led the College of Engineering.
W. Robert Scheidt
W. Robert Scheidt is an American inorganic and bioinorganic chemist, emeritus professor at the University of Notre Dame, known for crystallographic studies of iron porphyrins and hemes.
W. Roger Buck
W. Roger Buck is a geophysicist and Lamont Research Professor at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, known for his 2005 Nature model of faulting at mid-ocean ridges.
W. S. Gilbert
W. S. Gilbert (William Schwenck Gilbert, 1836–1911), English dramatist, librettist, and Bab Ballads poet, wrote the words for fourteen Savoy comic operas with composer Arthur Sullivan, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado; knighted 1907.
W. S. Merwin
W. S. Merwin (William Stanley Merwin, 1927–2019), American poet, translator, and environmentalist; two-time Pulitzer winner (The Carrier of Ladders, The Shadow of Sirius), 2005 National Book Award for Migration, U.S. Poet Laureate 2010–2011, known for unpunctuated verse and Maui palm-forest restoration.
W. S. Rendra
W. S. Rendra, born Willibrodus Surendra Broto (1935–2009), was an Indonesian poet and playwright who rose to fame in the 1950s and led Bengkel Teater, helping bring modern Indonesian theater to maturity.
W. S. Van Dyke
W. S. Van Dyke (Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke II, 1889–1943), American MGM film director nicknamed One-Take Woody; directed The Thin Man, Tarzan the Ape Man, San Francisco, and Trader Horn; two Best Director Oscar nominations.
W. Scott Young
W. Scott Young (Walter Scott Young, III) is a neuroscientist who developed in vitro receptor autoradiography and studied the brain roles of oxytocin and vasopressin at NIMH.
W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965), British playwright, novelist, and short-story writer; author of Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, and The Razor's Edge; four plays ran simultaneously in the West End in 1908; bequeathed copyrights to the Royal Literary Fund.
W. T. Grant
W. T. Grant was an American variety-store chain founded by William T. Grant in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1906, which collapsed in the largest American retailing bankruptcy of its time in 1975.
W. T. Stead
W. T. Stead, also known as William Thomas Stead, was an English newspaper editor credited as the father of the New Journalism; he died in the Titanic in 1912.
W. T. Tutte
W. T. Tutte, born William Thomas Tutte, was a British-born Canadian mathematician and cryptanalyst who deduced the Lorenz cipher without seeing it, and proved foundational theorems in graph theory.
W. Timothy Garvey
W. Timothy Garvey is an American endocrinologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham known for obesity research and leading the SURMOUNT-2 and REDEFINE weight-loss drug trials.
W. V. D. Hodge
William Vallance Douglas Hodge (1903–1975) was a British mathematician at Cambridge who worked in algebraic geometry, known for Hodge theory and the unsolved Hodge conjecture.
W. W. Grainger
W.W. Grainger, Inc., also known as Grainger Industrial Supply, is an American distributor of maintenance, repair, and operating products, founded in Chicago in 1927 and based in Lake Forest, Illinois.
W. W. Hansen
W. W. Hansen (1909–1949) was an American physicist at Stanford University who invented the rhumbatron cavity resonator and made the klystron, the first practical microwave source, possible.
W. W. Jacobs
W. W. Jacobs (William Wymark Jacobs, 1863-1943), English short-story writer of Wapping dockside humor, author of Many Cargoes and the horror classic The Monkey's Paw (1902).
W. Wallace Cleland
W. Wallace Cleland was an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who set the framework for modern enzyme kinetics and pioneered isotope-effect studies of enzyme mechanisms.