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Warren Petersen

Warren Petersen is an American Republican politician who serves as President of the Arizona State Senate, representing District 14, covering Gilbert and parts of Queen Creek.

Warren Pickering

Warren Pickering, Australian Army veteran and One Nation's leader in Victoria since August 2026, candidate for Pakenham at the 28 November 2026 state election; former state president, 2022 Senate candidate, ex-Liberal Party member.

Warren S. Pear

Warren S. Pear is an American physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine who studies Notch signaling, T cell development, and leukemia.

Warren Sapp

Warren Sapp (Warren Carlos Sapp), born 1972, NFL defensive tackle for Tampa Bay and Oakland, 96.5 sacks, 1999 Defensive Player of the Year, Super Bowl XXXVII champion, first-ballot Hall of Famer in 2013.

Warren Spahn

Warren Edward Spahn (1921-2003), American left-handed MLB pitcher for the Boston/Milwaukee Braves, Mets, and Giants; 363 wins, most by a lefty, 1957 Cy Young and World Series, Hall of Fame 1973.

Warren Sprout

Warren Sprout (Warren Austin Sprout, 1874–1945), American sport shooter and US Navy hospital steward; won gold in team military rifle and two bronze team small-bore rifle medals at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.

Warren Strober

Warren Strober is an American immunologist who leads the Mucosal Immunity Section at NIAID, NIH, and showed Crohn's disease is Th1/Th17 inflammation treatable with anti-IL-12p40 antibody, leading to ustekinumab.

Warren Sturgis McCulloch

Warren Sturgis McCulloch was an American neurophysiologist and cyberneticist who coauthored the 1943 McCulloch–Pitts paper on neural nets, chaired the Macy Conferences, and worked at MIT.

Warren truss

The Warren truss is a bridge truss with parallel chords connected by zigzag diagonals forming triangles, patented in 1848 by British engineers James Warren and Willoughby Monzoni.

Warren v. District of Columbia

Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. 1981), a D.C. Court of Appeals tort case, held police owe duties to the public at large, not individuals, absent a special relationship, founding the District's public duty doctrine.

Warren W. Rosenthal

Warren W. Rosenthal (1922/23–2019) was an American restaurant executive who turned a small hamburger business into Jerrico Inc. and launched Long John Silver's in 1969.

Warren Wagon Train Raid

The Warren Wagon Train Raid, also called the Salt Creek Massacre, was an 1871 attack in Young County, Texas, in which Kiowa and other warriors killed seven teamsters.

Warren Warren

Warren S. Warren is a chemical physicist and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor at Duke University, known for pulse shaping in laser spectroscopy and NMR.

Warren Weaver

Warren Weaver was an American mathematician and science administrator who directed the Rockefeller Foundation's natural sciences division, coined the term molecular biology, and launched machine translation in 1949.

Warren Westlund

Warren Westlund (Warren DeHaven Westlund, 1926–1992), American rower and stroke of the University of Washington coxed four that won gold at the 1948 London Olympics in 6:50.3; later a Buick-GMC dealer and UW Hall of Famer.

Warren William

Warren William (Warren William Krech, 1894-1948), American actor, the "King of Pre-Code" Hollywood; Warner Bros. star of The Mouthpiece, Skyscraper Souls, and Employees' Entrance, first screen Perry Mason, Lone Wolf series star.

Warren Wood

Warren Kenneth Wood (1887–1926), American amateur golfer of Homewood/Flossmoor Country Club, Chicago; won 1904 Olympic team golf gold with the Western Golf Association, lost his 1904 individual first-round match, and reached the 1910 U.S. Amateur final.

Warren Worthington III

Warren Worthington III, also called Angel or Archangel, is a Marvel Comics mutant superhero with feathered wings; a wealthy founding member of the X-Men, debuting in X-Men #1 (1963), later transformed by Apocalypse into the Horseman of Death.

Warren Zaïre-Emery

Warren Zaïre-Emery (born 2006, Montreuil) is a French midfielder for Paris Saint-Germain and France; PSG's youngest-ever player, U17 Euro 2022 player of the tournament, Champions League winner 2025 and 2026, contracted to 2029.

Warren Zevon

Warren Zevon (Warren William Zevon) was an American rock singer-songwriter known for darkly humorous songs like "Werewolves of London"; his 1978 breakthrough album was Excitable Boy.

Warren, Michigan

Warren, Michigan: third-largest Michigan city in Macomb County, population 139,387 (2020), incorporated 1957, home of the 710-acre GM Global Technical Center and Army TACOM.

Warren's Gate

Warren's Gate is a blocked Second Temple period gate in the western wall of the Herodian Temple Mount in Jerusalem, discovered by Charles Warren in 1867.

Warren's Shaft

Warren's Shaft is a natural vertical karstic shaft about 13 meters deep in the City of David's ancient water system in Jerusalem, discovered by Charles Warren in 1867.

Warrenpoint ambush

Warrenpoint ambush, also called the Narrow Water ambush or massacre: Provisional IRA double remote-controlled bombing on 27 August 1979 at Narrow Water, County Down, killing 18 British soldiers, the British Army's deadliest Troubles incident, on the day Lord Mountbatten was assassinated.

Warri

Warri, Nigeria: oil and port city in Delta State, western Niger Delta, seat of the Warri Kingdom under the Olu of Warri (Ogiame Atuwatse III). Known for its 1978 refinery, multi-ethnic Ijaw-Itsekiri-Urhobo politics, and the 2022-ordered ward delineation.

Warrick Dunn

Warrick Dunn (Warrick De'Mon Dunn, born 1975) is a former NFL running back for Tampa Bay and Atlanta, 1997 Offensive Rookie of the Year, 10,967 career rushing yards, 2024 College Football Hall of Fame inductee, and founder of Homes for the Holidays.

Warring States period (战国)

Warring States period (战国, Zhanguo), c. 481/403–221 BCE: era of seven rival Chinese states ending with Qin unification under Shi Huangdi; Shang Yang's reforms, mass conscript armies, crossbows, Hundred Schools.

Warringah

Warringah, or Warringah Shire, was a 152 sq km Sydney northern beaches local government area governed by Warringah Council from 1906 until merging with Manly and Pittwater into Northern Beaches Council on 12 May 2016; the name also designates a federal electorate.

Warringah Freeway

The Warringah Freeway, formerly the Warringah Expressway, is a motorway in Sydney linking the Sydney Harbour Bridge to the Gore Hill Freeway, carrying around 250,000 vehicles daily.

Warrington

Warrington is a market town and unitary borough in Cheshire, England, on the River Mersey between Liverpool and Manchester. Known for Roman Wilderspool, its medieval market, the wire industry ('The Wire'), New Town status, and 215,425 residents (2025 estimate).