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- Wailly, Amélie de
- Wailly, Léon de
- Waller, Edmund
- Walzel, Camillo
- Wart(e), Jacob von
- Weatherly, Frederick E.
- Wedderburn, James
- Wedekind, Frank
- Weigand, Wilhelm
- Weiskern, Friedrich Wilhelm
- Weiße, Christian Felix
- Wenzig, Josef
- Werner, Zacharias
- Wesendonck, Mathilde
- Wessenberg, Ignaz Heinrich von
- West, Moritz
- Westbrook, Arthur
- Wette, Adelneid
- Wever, Robert
- Whitehead, William
- Whitman, Walt
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Wilder, Victor
- Willemer, Marianne von
- Wissmann, Eduard
- Wolff, Oskar Ludwig Bernhard
- Wordsworth, William
