tuba Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Saudi-Arabian theologist – Wahhabi movement Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh biologist – Wallace Line, Wallace's flying frog, Operation Wallacea, Wallacea Peter Waldo, French religious leader – Waldensians Samuel Wallis, British explorer– Wallis and Futuna Egide Walschaerts, Belgian engineer – Walschaerts valve gear Walpurga, English missionary – Walpurgis Night Adam Walsh, American rape and murder victim – Code Adam Sam Walton, American businessman – Walmart and Sam's Club Preston Ware, American chess player – Ware Opening Albert Warner, Harold Warner, Jack L. Warner and Sam Warner, American film producers – Warner Bros. Arthur P. Warner and John K. Stewart, American businesspeople – Stewart–Warner Earl Warren, American chief of justice – Warren Commission George Washington, American general and president – Washington and Washington, D.C. Karlman Wasserman, American physiologist — Wasserman 9-Panel Plot James Watt, Scottish inventor – watt Thomas William Webb, British astronomer - Webb's wreath (a telescopic asterism in the constellation Hercules, called Webb's wreath by amateur astronomers) Ernst Heinrich Weber, German psychologist – Weber's law, Weber test, Weberian apparatus Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist – weber Friedrich Wegener, German pathologist – Wegener's granulomatosis (not discovered by him, now known as granulomatosis with polyangiitis) Peter J. Weinberger – the second letter of the name awk, a computer pattern/action language, is taken from Weinberger August Weismann, German biologist – Weismannism Sam Weller, British literary character – wellerism Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister – Beef Wellington, Wellington boot, Wellington (New Zealand), Wellingtonia (tree) H. G. Wells, British novelist – Wellsian Eudora Welty, American novelist – Eudora, an e-mail client. Carl Wernicke, German neurologist – Wernicke's aphasia, Wernicke's area, Wernicke encephalopathy, Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome. Werther, German literary character – Werther effect. Mae West, American actress – Mae West jacket Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, British politician – Delaware Thomas Aldridge Weston, American inventor – Weston differential pulley George Whipple, American physician – Whipple's disease Joseph Whitworth, British engineer – Whitworth rifle Frederick Methvan Whyte, American engineer – Whyte notation Knut Wicksell, Swedish economist – Wicksell effect, Wicksell's theory of capital Wilhelm Wien, Russian mathematician – Wien's displacement law Alof de Wignacourt, French-Maltese nobleman – Wignacourt Aqueduct, Wignacourt towers, Wignacourt Tower Eugene Wigner, Hungarian-American mathematician – Wigner's friend Paul Wild, British-born Australian scientist - Wild's Triplet Private Wilhelm, American film character from the film The Charge at Feather River (1953) – Wilhelm scream Erik Adolf von Willebrand,