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Warren E. Stewart

Warren E. Stewart, also known as Warren Earl Stewart, was an American chemical engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who coauthored Transport Phenomena (1960), the first textbook on the subject.

Warren Earp

Warren Baxter Earp (1855-1900), youngest Earp brother, skipped the OK Corral gunfight but joined the 1882 vendetta ride; shot dead by John Boyett in Willcox, Arizona, in 1900, acquitted on self-defense.

Warren Ellis

Warren Ellis (born 1968, Essex, England) is a British comics writer and novelist, creator of Transmetropolitan, The Authority, Planetary, and Red, and of Netflix's Castlevania; accused by 60+ women in 2020, he returned to Image Comics in 2026.

Warren Ellis (musician)

Warren Ellis, Australian violinist and composer, co-founder of instrumental trio Dirty Three (1992, with Mick Turner and Jim White), longtime Nick Cave collaborator in the Bad Seeds and Grinderman, and film scorer of The Proposition, The Assassination of Jesse James, and Mustang.

Warren Equity Partners

Warren Equity Partners is a private equity firm based in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, founded in 2015, which makes buyout investments in North American and European infrastructure services companies.

Warren Ewens

Warren John Ewens is an Australian mathematical population geneticist, best known for the 1972 Ewens sampling formula and for co-creating the transmission disequilibrium test for disease genes.

Warren F. Miller, Jr.

Warren F. "Pete" Miller, Jr. is an American nuclear engineer who spent 27 years at Los Alamos and served as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy from 2009 to 2010.

Warren Farrell

Warren Farrell, also known as Warren Thomas Farrell, is an American author on gender issues who moved from 1970s men's liberation to become the men's rights movement's intellectual father.

Warren Fox

Warren Fox is a fictional gangster in the British soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Jamie Lomas. First appearing in June 2006, he is one of the serial's principal villains.

Warren Frost

Warren Frost (Warren Lindsay Frost, 1925–2017), American character actor; Doc Hayward on Twin Peaks (1990–1991 and 2017 revival) and Henry Ross on Seinfeld; father of Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost; no Emmy nominations.

Warren G

Warren G (Warren Griffin III), Long Beach rapper-producer, stepbrother of Dr. Dre, 213 founder with Nate Dogg and Snoop Dogg; 1994's Regulate…G Funk Era went triple platinum.

Warren G. Harding

Warren G. Harding (1865–1923), 29th U.S. president (1921–1923), Ohio Republican and Marion Star publisher, won on "return to normalcy," signed the Budget Act and Emergency Quota Act, led the Washington Naval Conference, and is ranked low for Teapot Dome-era corruption.

Warren G. Schlinger

Warren G. Schlinger (1923–2017) was an American chemical engineer at Texaco who developed coal gasification processes and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.

Warren Gatland

Warren David Gatland is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former hooker who led Wales to three Grand Slams and the British & Irish Lions to three tours.

Warren H. Wagner

Warren H. Wagner (1920–2000) was an American botanist at the University of Michigan who studied fern evolution and devised the Wagner tree method of phylogenetic analysis.

Warren Harmon Lewis

Warren Harmon Lewis (1870–1964) was an American anatomist and embryologist at the Carnegie Institution, known for work on eye embryology, time-lapse films of living cells, and the discovery of pinocytosis.

Warren Hastings

Warren Hastings (1732–1818) was a British East India Company administrator who served as the first Governor-General of India, from 1774 to 1785, and was impeached in 1787 but acquitted in 1795.

Warren Haynes

Warren Haynes (born 1960, Asheville, North Carolina) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter of the Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule founder, and solo artist behind Man In Motion and Million Voices Whisper.

Warren Hellman

Warren Hellman, also known as F. Warren Hellman, was an American financier who co-founded Hellman & Friedman and funded the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival.

Warren Henry Cole

Warren Henry Cole (1898–1990) was an American surgeon who co-developed cholecystography, gallbladder x-ray imaging, and headed surgery at the University of Illinois from 1936 to 1966.

Warren J. Leonard

Warren J. Leonard is an American immunologist and NIH Distinguished Investigator at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, known for defining the gamma chain cytokine family and X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency.

Warren J. Manning

Warren J. Manning is an American cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston who leads non-invasive cardiac imaging and is a Harvard Medical School professor.

Warren Jeffs

Warren Jeffs, born Warren Steed Jeffs in 1955, is the imprisoned leader of the FLDS, a polygamous sect in Utah and Arizona, serving a life sentence for sexual assault.

Warren K. Lewis

Warren K. Lewis was an American chemical engineer at MIT, called the father of modern chemical engineering, who co-developed fluid catalytic cracking of petroleum in 1942.

Warren Kealoha

Warren Kealoha (Warren Daniels Kealoha, 1903–1972), Hawaiian swimmer and back-to-back Olympic 100 m backstroke gold medalist (Antwerp 1920, Paris 1924); held the world record six years, setting four marks from 1:14.8 to 1:11.4; not related to Pua Kealoha.

Warren Kole

Warren Kole (Warren David Blosjo Jr.), American actor born 1977 in San Antonio, Texas; played Robert Stahl in Shades of Blue, Jeff Sadecki in Yellowjackets, and voiced Rafe Adler in Uncharted 4 and Phillip Graves in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.

Warren L. Butler

Warren L. Butler, also known as Warren Lee Butler, was an American biophysicist who first detected phytochrome in living plants and modeled energy distribution between photosystems.

Warren L. McCabe

Warren L. McCabe (1899–1982) was an American chemical engineer and educator, remembered for the 1925 McCabe–Thiele graphical method of distillation design and the textbook Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering.

Warren M. Jackman

Warren M. Jackman is an American cardiac electrophysiologist at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center whose landmark 1991 and 1992 papers made catheter ablation a curative treatment for supraventricular tachycardias.

Warren M. Rohsenow

Warren M. Rohsenow was an American mechanical engineer, professor at MIT from 1946 to 1985, and founder of its Heat Transfer Laboratory, best known for the 1952 Rohsenow nucleate boiling correlation.