Lives listing by occupation: author
- Watelet, Claude Henri (born 1718–died 1786), French author, poet, art critic, academician
- Webster, Reverend Doctor Alexander (born 1707–died 1784), Scottish churchman, Presbyterian, author, demographer
- Webster, Noah [junior] (born 1758–died 1843), American lexicographer, lecturer, teacher, author, lawyer, essayist
- Webster, William (born 1689–died 1758), English churchman, author
- Welsted, Leonard (born 1688–died 1747), English author, poet
- West, Richard [junior] (born 1716–died 1742), English author, poet
- Whately, Thomas (born 1726–died 1772), English politician, member of Parliament, civil servant, author
- Whatley, George (born c. 1709–died 1791), English author, economist, philanthropist
- Whitby, Daniel (born 1638–died 1726), English author, theologian
- Whitehead, William (born 1715–died 1785), English author, playwright, poet
- Wilkie, William (born 1721–died 1772), Scottish author, poet, churchman, university teacher
- Williams, Helen Maria (born 1759–died 1827), English author, novelist, poet, translator
- Willis, Browne (born 1682–died 1760), English antiquarian, scholar, author
- Windisch-Grätz, Joseph Ludwig Nikolaus von, graf von Windisch-Grätz (born 1744–died 1802), Austrian philosopher, author
- Wingate, Edmund (born 1596–died 1656), English legal author, author
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