Here is a random selection of famous first names beginning with W.
William Wordsworth
(1770 - 1850), English poet. In 1843 he became poet laureate. His poems include "Tintern Abbey", "The Prelude" and "Intimations of Immortality".Walter Scott
[Sir], (1771 - 1832), Scottish novelist and poet. His wrote the poem "The Lady of the Lake", and the novels "Waverley" "The Heart of Midlothian" and "Ivanhoe".William Blake
(1757 - 1827), English poet and artist. He is considered to be one of the greatest of the English Romantic poets.Walter Raleigh
[Sir], (1552 - 1618), English courtier, poet and explorer. He organized unsuccessful attempts to colonize Virginia with English settlers in the 1580s. In 1595, he travelled to the Orinoco. He was imprisoned after Queen Elizabeth's death, but was released to search for treasure on the Orinoco in 1616, and was executed on his return.William Henry Beveridge
[1st Baron Beveridge], (1879 - 1963),
Indian-born English economist. His 'Beveridge Report' became the
basis for the welfare state introduced in Britain.