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- Wailly, Amélie de
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- Walthew, Richard Henry
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- Walzel, Camillo
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- Warlock, Peter
- Wart(e), Jacob von
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- Weatherly, Frederick E.
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- Webern, Anton von
- Weckerlin, Jean-Baptiste Théodore
- Wedderburn, James
- Wedekind, Frank
- Weigand, Wilhelm
- Weigl, Joseph
- Weill, Kurt
- Weingartner, Felix Paul
- Weiskern, Friedrich Wilhelm
- Weiße, Christian Felix
- Wenzig, Josef
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- Wessenberg, Ignaz Heinrich von
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- Westbrook, Arthur
- Wette, Adelneid
- Wever, Robert
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- Whitehead, William
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- Whitman, Walt
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
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- Willemer, Marianne von
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- Wilson, Henry Lane
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- Wolff, Oskar Ludwig Bernhard
- Wood, Charles
- Wordsworth, William
- Wüllner, Franz
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