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Wilhelm Richard Wagner
  1. German composer of operas and inventor of the musical drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883)
Waite
  1. United States jurist who was appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1874 by President Grant (1816-1888)
Wajda
  1. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929)
Waldheim
  1. 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
  1. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943)
Wallace
  1. English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled Charles Darwin's (1823-1913)
  2. English writer noted for his crime novels (1875-1932)
  3. 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
  1. Austrian general who fought for the Hapsburgs during the Thirty Years' War (1583-1634)
Waller
  1. United States jazz musician (1904-1943)
Walpole
  1. Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676-1745)
  2. English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797)
Walter
  1. German conductor (1876-1962)