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Wilhelm Richard Wagner
- German composer of operas and inventor of the musical drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883)
Waite
- United States jurist who was appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1874 by President Grant (1816-1888)
Wajda
- Polish filmmaker (born in 1929)
Waldheim
- Austrian diplomat who was Secretary General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981; in 1986 he was elected president of Austria in spite of worldwide allegations that he had direct knowledge of Nazi atrocities during World War II (born in 1918)
Walesa
- Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943)
Wallace
- English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled Charles Darwin's (1823-1913)
- English writer noted for his crime novels (1875-1932)
- Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I; in 1297 he gained control of Scotland briefly until Edward invaded Scotland again and defeated Wallace and subsequently executed him (1270-1305)
Wallenstein
- Austrian general who fought for the Hapsburgs during the Thirty Years' War (1583-1634)
Waller
- United States jazz musician (1904-1943)
Walpole
- Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676-1745)
- English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797)
Walter
- German conductor (1876-1962)