Surnames Starting with W
| Name | Country | Category | Gender | Birth | Death |
| Wada, Minoru  | Japan | Military-Ground | Male |  |  |
| 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 |
| Wünsche, Max  | Germany | Military-Ground | Male | 1914 | 1995 |
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