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• Alfred North Whitehead - mathematician and philosopher (1861-1947)

• Benjamin Lee Whorf - linguist and fire prevention engineer (1897-1941)

• Frank Lloyd Wright - architect, interior designer, writer and educator (1867 – 1959)

• George Washington - first President of the United States (1731 – 1799)

• Jessamyn West - novelist (1902 – 1984)

• John Wayne - film actor, director and producer (1907 – 1979)

• Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein - philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, mind, and language (1889-1951)

• Mae West - actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol (1893 – 1980)

• Mary Wilson Little - writer (1880)

• Oprah Winfrey - media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer (1954)

• Oscar Wilde - writer and poet (1854 – 1900)

• Simone Adolphine Weil - philosopher, mystic, and political activist (1909-1943)

• Virginia Woolf - writer (1882 – 1941)

• Walt Whitman - poet, essayist, and journalist (1819-1892)

• William Robertson - novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor (1913-1995)

• William Wallace - one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence (1305)