Author
- Viśvanāthaśāstrī Prabhākara1
- Wafāʼī, Muḥammad ibn Badr al-Dīn1
- Walter Hilton1
- Walter Raleigh1
- Walther Hermann Ryff1
- Wang Cheng1
- William Alabaster1
- William Bourne1
- William Bowyer1
- William Dethick1
- William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel1
- William Knight1
- William Roper1
- Wolf Michel1
- Wolff Aichinger1
- Wool Guild1
- Wu Yan1
- Xenophon1
- Xia Liangsheng1
- Xu Zhongxing1