- Vanbrugh, Sir John
- Vaughan, Henry
- Vaughan, Robert
- Veitch, John
- Very, Jones
- Wace
- Wade, Thomas
- Wakefield, Gilbert
- Wallace, Lewis
- Waller, Edmund
- Waller, John Francis
- Walpole, Horatio or Horace
- Walpole, Sir Spencer
- Walton, Izaak
- Warburton, Bartholomew Eliot George
- Warburton, William
- "Ward, Artemus"
- Ward, Robert Plumer
- Ward, William George
- Wardlaw, Elizabeth, Lady
- Warner, Susan
- Warner, William
- Warren, Samuel
- Warton, Joseph
- Warton, Thomas
- Waterland, Daniel
- Waterton, Charles
- Watson, John
- Watson, Robert
- Watson, Thomas
- Watts, Alaric Alexander
- Watts, Isaac
- Waugh, Edwin
- Webbe, William
- Webster, Mrs. Augusta (Davies)
- Webster, Daniel
- Webster, John
- Webster, Noah
- Wells, Charles Jeremiah
- Wendover, Roger de
- Wesley, Charles
- Wesley, John
- Westall, William
- Wharton, Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquis of
- Whateley, Richard
- Whetstone, George
- Whewell, William
- Whichcote, Benjamin
- Whipple, Edwin Percy
- Whiston, William
- White, Gilbert
- White, Henry Kirke
- White, Joseph Blanco
- White, Richard Grant
- Whitehead, Charles
- Whitehead, William
- Whitman, Walter or Walt
- Whitney, William Dwight
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Whyte-Melville, George John
- Wyclif, John
- Wiclif, or Wyclif, John
- Wilberforce, William
- Wilcox, Carles
- Wilde, Oscar O'Flaherty
- Wilkes, John
- Wilkie, William
- Wilkins, John
- Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner
- William of Malmesbury
- William of Newburgh, or Newbury
- Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury
- Willis, Browne
- Willis, Nathaniel Parker
- Wills, James
- Wills, William Gorman
- Wilson, Alexander
- Wilson, Sir Daniel
- Wilson, John
- Wilson, Thomas
- Wingate, David
- Winthrop, Theodore
- Wither, George
- Wodrow, Robert
- Wolcot, John
- Wolfe, Charles
- Wood, or À Wood, Anthony
- Wood, Mrs. Ellen (Price)
- Wood, John George
- Woolman, John
- Woolner, Thomas
- Wordsworth, Christopher
- Wordsworth, Dorothy
- Wordsworth, William
- Wotton, Sir Henry
- Wraxall, Sir Nathaniel William
- Wright, Thomas
- Wyatt, Sir Thomas
- Wycherley, William
- Wyntoun, Andrew of