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Wilhelmina Models
Wilhelmina Models, founded 1967 in New York by model Wilhelmina Cooper and Bruce Cooper, is a fashion model and talent agency with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and London, run by publicly traded Wilhelmina International (WHLM), organized into Women, Men, Direct, Curve, Showroom, and Fitness boards.
Will Guidara
Will Guidara, American restaurateur and co-founder of Make It Nice, transformed Eleven Madison Park with chef Daniel Humm into the World's 50 Best number 1 in 2017 and wrote the bestseller Unreasonable Hospitality (2022).
Will Keith Kellogg
Will Keith Kellogg (W.K. Kellogg, 1860–1951) was the Battle Creek, Michigan businessman who founded the Kellogg Company in 1906, popularized corn flakes, and in 1930 established the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, distinct from brother John Harvey Kellogg.
Will Kirk
Will Kirk (born 1985) is a British furniture restorer specializing in woodwork, known for BBC's The Repair Shop since 2017 and The Travelling Auctioneers; distinct from actor Will Kirk and William Kirk.
William Grant & Sons
William Grant & Sons, independent family-owned Scottish spirits distiller founded 1887 by William Grant, maker of Glenfiddich, The Balvenie, Grant's, Hendrick's, Monkey Shoulder and Tullamore D.E.W.; six generations of family ownership, 2025 turnover £1.76bn.
Willie Wilson (businessman)
Willie Wilson (born 1948, Gilbert, Louisiana) is a Chicago businessman, philanthropist, and perennial candidate who owned five McDonald's franchises, founded Omar Medical Supplies, created the Emmy-winning gospel show Singsation!, and has run for Chicago mayor in 2015, 2019, 2023, and 2027, plus president in 2016 and U.S. Senate in 2020.
Willment Leong
Willment Leong is a Singapore-born chef based in Bangkok, Continental Director for Asia at Worldchefs, chairman of World Chefs Without Borders, founder of the Thailand Culinary Academy, and a UN World Food Programme Goodwill Ambassador.
Wilnelia Merced
Wilnelia Merced (Wilnelia Merced Cruz), born 1957 in Caguas, Puerto Rico, is a philanthropist and model crowned Miss World 1975, the first Puerto Rican winner; later Lady Forsyth, wife of Bruce Forsyth, and holder of the Miss World Puerto Rico franchise.
Wimpy (restaurant)
Wimpy, also Wimpy Bar or Wimpy Grills, is a hamburger chain founded in Indiana in 1934, named after Popeye's J. Wellington Wimpy. Now owned by South Africa's Famous Brands, it has about 544 South African restaurants and 61 table-service UK outlets.
Windbreaker
Windbreaker (British: windcheater): a lightweight, wind-resistant jacket, word dating to 1918-1924, popularized in the 1970s, descended from Inuit parkas; typically nylon with DWR, water-resistant but not waterproof, distinct from softshells and rain jackets.
Windsor chair
The Windsor chair is a wooden chair with a solid plank seat into which the legs and back spindles are socketed, originating in England in the early eighteenth century.
Windsor knot
Windsor knot, also called full or double Windsor: a wide, symmetrical triangular necktie knot for spread or cutaway collars, named for the Duke of Windsor, who never actually wore it, and the most length-hungry common tie knot.
Windsor-style pizza
Windsor-style pizza is Windsor, Ontario's regional pizza, distinct from Detroit-style: medium-thin cornmeal crust, Galati mozzarella, shredded pepperoni, canned mushrooms, born at Volcano Pizzeria (1957).
Wine bottle
Wine bottle: the standard ~750 ml glass container for wine, developed from 14th-century glass to the 1820s cylindrical mold; sealed by cork, screw cap, or synthetic stopper; glass dominates wine packaging though LCAs favor bag-in-box and refillable formats.
Wine cooperative
Wine cooperative: a grower-owned winemaking firm (cave coopérative, cantina sociale) where members deliver grapes to a jointly owned cellar under one-member-one-vote governance; by the 1980s cooperatives made over half the wine of France, Italy, and Spain.
Wine gum
Wine gums (winegums) are chewy, firm British pastille sweets with no alcohol, introduced by Maynards in 1909. Made from starch and gelatine, stamped with drink names like Port and Sherry; vegan variants exist.
Wine Institute
Wine Institute is the public policy advocacy association of California wineries, founded in 1934 after Prohibition's repeal; it represents nearly 1,000 wineries at state, federal, and international levels.
Wine museum
A wine museum is an institution dedicated to collecting and displaying the material culture of vines and wine, from archaeological ceramics to vineyard tools and label archives.
Wine rating systems
Wine rating systems are numeric or symbolic scoring schemes critics and publications use to judge wine quality, with scores above 90 points driving marketing and sales.
Wine tasting descriptors
Wine tasting descriptors are the vocabulary for describing wine's appearance, aroma, taste, and mouthfeel, organized by systems such as the WSET SAT, the CMS deductive grid, and Noble's Aroma Wheel.
Winemaking
Winemaking: production of wine by fermenting grape sugars into ethanol and carbon dioxide, spontaneously or with selected yeasts. Covers maceration, carbonic maceration, ancestral versus traditional sparkling methods, vessels, and OIV-regulated practice.
Wingstop
Wingstop (Wingstop Inc.), American fast casual chicken wings chain founded 1994 in Garland, Texas, Nasdaq: WING since 2015; 3,056 restaurants, ~98% franchised, $5.3 billion fiscal 2025 system-wide sales.
Winnie Harlow
Winnie Harlow, born Chantelle Brown-Young (1994, Toronto), also known as Chantelle Winnie, is a Canadian model with vitiligo who rose via America's Next Top Model cycle 21, walked Victoria's Secret, founded Cay Skin, and is engaged to Kyle Kuzma.
Winston (cigarette)
Winston is an American cigarette brand launched in March 1954 by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the first nationally popular filtered cigarette and the best seller from 1966.
Wish (company)
Wish, also known as Wish.com, was a San Francisco mobile shopping marketplace linking mostly Chinese merchants with consumers through personalized product feeds, sold to Qoo10 in 2024.
Wolfgang Puck
Wolfgang Puck (born 1949, Austria) is an Austrian-American celebrity chef and restaurateur who opened Spago in West Hollywood in 1982, pioneered California cuisine, gourmet pizza, and open kitchens, and built a brand of more than 100 restaurants including CUT, plus the Oscars Governors Ball.
Women chefs with Michelin stars
Women chefs with Michelin stars: female chefs leading MICHELIN-starred restaurants, also called starred cheffes. About 6% of starred restaurants worldwide are female-led; Anne-Sophie Pic, Dominique Crenn, Clare Smyth, and Hélène Darroze hold three stars each.
Women in costume design
Women in costume design covers the history, recognition, and pay of women designing costumes for film, television, and stage, a majority-female craft that won pay equity in 2024.
Women's March on Versailles
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the October Days, was a 1789 uprising in which Parisian women demanding bread forced King Louis XVI to Paris.
Women's Trade Union League
The Women's Trade Union League (NWTUL, 1903-1950), founded in Boston at the AFL convention, organized women wage workers, supported garment strikes, ran a leadership training school, published Life and Labor, and lobbied protective labor legislation.