Writers Whose First Name Starts With W
Discover the famous writers whose name starts with W. The list includes people like William Shakespeare, Woody Allen, Wendy Williams, William Blake, William Wordsworth and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. This list of writers whose names start with W includes people from United States, England, Germany, Canada and other countries all over the world.
William Rees-Mogg(Journalist, Writer, Economist)
14 July 1928
British
Will Self(Writer, Journalist, Novelist, Science fiction writer)
26 September 1961
British
W. Somerset Maugham(Playwright, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter)
25 January 1874
French,British
W. S. Merwin(Poet, Writer, Translator)
30 September 1927
American
William Hague(Politician, Historian, Judoka, Biographer)
26 March 1961
British
William Friedkin(Film director)
29 August 1935
American
William Carlos Williams(Poet)
17 September 1883
American
Willard Scott(Actor, Television actor, Writer)
07 March 1934
American
William Lane Craig(Philosopher, Theologian, University teacher, Writer)
23 August 1949
American
Win Butler(Songwriter, Singer, Composer, Poet, Guitarist)
14 April 1980
American
Warren Ellis(Journalist, Writer, Science fiction writer)
16 February 1968
British
W. C. Handy(Trumpeter, Composer, Songwriter, Autobiographer, Jazz musician, Non-fiction writer, Pianist, Music journalist)
16 November 1873
American
Wilkie Collins(Novelist, Playwright)
08 January 1824
British
William Saroyan(American-Armenian novelist)
31 August 1908
American
Werner Erhard(Author, Lecturer)
05 September 1935
American
Wavy Gravy(Comedian, Street artist, Circus performer, Writer)
15 May 1936
American
William Blackstone(Judge, Barrister, University teacher, Lawyer, Politician, Writer)
10 July 1723
Wilma Mankiller(Author, Writer, Tribal chief)
18 November 1945
American
Walter Trout(Guitarist, Singer, Writer, Autobiographer)
06 March 1951
American
William Steig(Writer, Sculptor, Illustrator, Children's writer, Screenwriter)
14 November 1907
American
William Butler Yeats(Poet)
13 June 1865
Irish
William Congreve(Playwright, Poet, Writer, Translator)
24 January 1670
British
William Styron(military personnel, novelist, autobiographer, writer)
11 June 1925
American
W. G. Sebald(Writer, Poet, Professor)
18 May 1944
German
Walker Percy(Writer, Novelist, Philosopher)
28 May 1916
American
Walter Mosley(American novelist)
12 January 1952
American
Walther Rathenau(Politician, Engineer, Writer, Entrepreneur, Science fiction writer)
29 September 1867
German
William L. Shirer(Journalist, Historian, Writer)
23 February 1904
American
Winsor McCay(Cartoonist, Animator, Screenwriter, Science fiction writer)
26 September 1869
Canadian,American
Wyndham Lewis(Painter, Writer, Journalist, Editor, Novelist)
18 November 1882
British
William F. Buckley, Jr.24 November 1925
American
Walter Bagehot(Journalist, Economist, Political scientist, Writer, Sociologist)
03 February 1826
British
Waris Shah(poet)
1722 AD
Pakistani
Wilhelm Grimm(Lexicographer, Anthropologist, Librarian, Writer, Law librarian, Children's writer, Educationist, Linguist, Specialist in literature, Germanist, Jurist, University teacher, Poet lawyer, Mythographer)
24 February 1786
German
William Inge(American playwright)
03 May 1913
American
William Whewell(Economist, Physicist, Historian, Philosopher, Writer, University teacher, Mathematician)
24 May 1794
British
Warren Bennis(Writer, Economist, Psychologist)
08 March 1925
American
W. P. Kinsella(Writer, Scrabble player)
25 May 1935
Canadian