Celebrities Starting with W.

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50 celebrities starting with W, including Will Smith, Woody Harrelson and William Shatner. Browse profiles by profession, country and birth year.

50 celebrities on Famousy have a name that starts with W. Ranked by popularity, the best known are Will Smith, Woody Harrelson, William Shatner, Whoopi Goldberg, Woody Allen and Walt Disney. The most common professions are writers (33), actors (22), screenwriters (20) and directors (16). The best-represented countries are United States (32), United Kingdom (8) and Germany (4). Birth years run from 1756 to 2000, and the most common birth decade is the 1930s (8 people). The earliest-born is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756) and the most recently born is Willow Smith (2000). 12 of them are living, and 38 have passed away. Among those still living, Will Smith is the best known. The group includes 4 women and 46 men. Browse every profile below, or jump to another letter from the A to Z index.

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William Makepeace Thackeray

India

Vanity Fair 1848 made Thackeray famous as a satirist. He also published The Luck of Barry Lyndon in 1844, adapted into a 1975 Stanley Kubrick film. Thackeray attended Charterhouse School and Cambridge University.

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