Surnames Starting with W
| Name | Country | Category | Gender | Birth | Death |
| Wada, Minoru | Japan | Military-Ground | Male | ||
| Wai, Francis | United States | Military-Ground | Male | 1917 | 1944 |
| Wainwright, Jonathan | United States | Military-Ground | Male | 1883 | 1953 |
| Wakamatsu, Yujiro | Japan | Medicine | Male | ||
| Walker, Walton | United States | Military-Ground | Male | 1889 | 1950 |
| Wallace, Henry | United States | Government | Male | 1888 | 1965 |
| Wallenberg, Raoul | Sweden | Government | Male | 1912 | 1947 |
| Wallis, Barnes | United Kingdom | Science-Engineering | Male | 1887 | 1979 |
| Wang, Guangfu | China | Military-Air | Male | 1914 | 2008 |
| Wang, Jingwei | China | Government | Male | 1883 | 1944 |
| Wang, Mingzhang | China | Military-Ground | Male | 1893 | 1938 |
| Wang, Picheng | China | Military-Ground | Male | 2003 | |
| Wang, Xiaoting | United States | Photography | Male | 1981 | |
| Wang, Zhi | China | Military-Ground | Male | 1926 | |
| Warren, Allan | United Kingdom | Photography | Male | 1948 | |
| Wavell, Archibald | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1883 | 1950 |
| Wedemeyer, Albert | United States | Military-Ground | Male | 1896 | 1989 |
| Wei, Daming | China | Military-Ground | Male | ||
| Wei, Lihuang | China | Military-Ground | Male | 1897 | 1960 |
| Weichs, Maximilian | Germany | Military-Ground | Male | 1881 | 1954 |
| Weidling, Helmuth | Germany | Military-Ground | Male | 1891 | 1955 |
| Weinrother, Carl | Germany | Photography | Male | ||
| Weiss, Martin | Germany | Government | Male | 1905 | 1946 |
| Welch, George | United States | Military-Air | Male | 1918 | 1954 |
| Wenck, Walther | Germany | Military-Ground | Male | 1900 | 1982 |
| Wenneker, Paul | Germany | Military-Sea | Male | 1890 | 1979 |
| Wessels, Theodore | United States | Military-Ground | Male | ||
| Weygand, Maxime | France | Military-Ground | Male | 1867 | 1965 |
| Whalen, Howard | United States | Photography | Male | 1912 | |
| Wiligut, Karl | Austria | Other | Male | 1866 | 1946 |
| Wilkinson, Theodore | United States | Military-Sea | Male | ||
| Willey, John | United States | Military-Ground | Male | 1902 | |
| Wilmowsky, Tilo | Germany | Commerce-Industry | Male | ||
| Winant, John | United States | Government | Male | 1889 | 1947 |
| Wingate, Orde | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1903 | 1944 |
| Winton, Nicholas | United Kingdom | Other | Male | 1909 | 2015 |
| Wong, John | China | Military-Air | Male | ||
| Wong, Sun-sui | China | Military-Air | Male | 1914 | 1941 |
| Halifax | United Kingdom | Government | Male | 1881 | 1959 |
| Wooldridge, Edmund | United States | Military-Sea | Male | 1897 | 1968 |
| Worthington, Frederic | Canada | Military-Ground | Male | 1889 | 1967 |
| Wu, Chien-Shiung | China | Science-Engineering | Female | 1912 | 1997 |
| Wünsche, Max | Germany | Military-Ground | Male | 1914 | 1995 |
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