Tilbury of England (1565–1635), military leader Cornelius Vermuyden of the Netherlands (1590–1677), engineer George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham of England (1592–1628), nobleman, statesman, and military commander Mutio Vitelleschi of Rome (1563–1645), Superior General of the Society of Jesus, held post 1615-1645 Joost van den Vondel of the Netherlands (1587–1679), writer and playwright Luke Wadding of Ireland (1588–1657), Franciscan friar, historian, and founder of the Pontifical Irish College Albrecht von Wallenstein of Bohemia (1583–1634), co-Supreme commander of the forces of the Holy Roman Empire Edmund Waller of England (1606–1687), Member of Parliament and poet Sir James Ware of Ireland (1594–1666), historian and politician John Webster of England (1580–1634), playwright Wei Zhongxian of China (1568–1627), Eunuch Thomas Wentworth Sr., 1st Earl of Strafford of England (1593–1641), statesman (specifically Member of Parliament and future Lord deputy and lieutenant of Ireland) John White of England (1575–1648), Anglican priest and colonial organizer of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (not to be confused with John White the governor of the Roanoke Colony) Wilhelm (1598–1662), Duke of Saxe-Weimar, r. 1620–1662 John Williams of England (1582–1650), Lord Chancellor and future Archbishop of York John Winthrop (1588–1649), Founder and future Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (governor-elect in 1629) Sir Henry Wotton of England (1568–1639), author and diplomat Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton of England (1573–1624), nobleman, patron of the theater, and colonial investor Sir Richard Wynn of Wales (1588–1649), Baronet, courtier, and Member of Parliament Xu Guangqi of China (1562–1633), Ming Dynasty bureaucrat, agricultural scientist, astronomer, and mathematician Yamada Nagamasa of Japan (1590–1630), adventurer, pirate, and military commander George Yeardley (1587–1627), Plantation owner and Governor of the Virginia Colony, held office in 1616–1617, 1619–1621, 1626–1627 Sir Henry Yelverton of England (1566–1629), Attorney General for England and Wales, in office 1617-1621 Yi Gwal of Korea (1587–1624), general Yuan Chonghuan of China (1584–1630), military commander Jakub Zadzik of Poland (1582–1642), Grand Chancellor of Poland Krzysztof Zbaraski of Poland (1580–1627), nobleman and Polish-Lithuanian ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Stanisław Żółkiewski of Poland (1547–1620), nobleman, military commander, and Grand Chancellor of Poland Zu Dashou of China (?–1656), general In fiction The voyage of the Pilgrims, their first years of inhabitance in the New World, and the first Thanksgiving are often the subject of Thanksgiving themed specials and short films. One of the most notable examples is the episode "The Mayflower voyagers" of the 1988 mini-series This Is America, Charlie Brown, which