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Famous people with the initials WB
February 2, 2026

Warren Buffett

American investor | entrepreneur and businessman

Top 500 #398

Warren Beatty

American actor and filmmaker

Whitey Bulger

Irish-American gangster and crime boss (1929-2018)

Wernher von Braun

German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)

Wes Bentley

American actor

Interstellar

William S. Burroughs

American novelist | short story writer | essayist | painter | and spoken word performer (1914–1997)

William #17 Naked Lunch

Wayne Brady

American actor | comedian | and television personality

W. E. B. Du Bois

American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)

William Baldwin

American actor | producer | and writer (born 1963)

William #21

#10

William Blake

English poet and artist (1757–1827)

William #22 And did those feet in ancient time

#11

Wilford Brimley

American actor and singer (1934–2020)

The Thing

#12

Wilfrid Brambell

Irish-born English film and television actor (1912–1985)

#13

Wally Bayola

Filipino comedian

#14

Walter Becker

American musician | songwriter | and record producer (1950–2017)

Walter #6

#15

Walter Brennan

American actor (1894–1974)

Walter #7

#16

William Bonin

American serial killer (1947–1996)

William #46

#17

Ward Bond

American actor (1903–1960)

Gone with the Wind

#18

Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia

king of Bohemia and Germany

#19

Wilson Bethel

American actor

Inherent Vice

#20

William Earl Brown

American actor

William #56 Vanilla Sky

#21

William Jennings Bryan

American politician (1860–1925)

William #57

#22

Wes Borland

American musician

#23

Willy Brandt

German politician (SPD) | chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

#24

William Bligh

officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator (1754-1817)

William #74

#25

Walter Benjamin

German literary critic | philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)

Walter #14

#26

Wendell Berry

author

#27

Wolf Blitzer

German-American journalist and television news anchor

#28

Whitney Kroenke Burditt

heiress | film producer | philanthropist

#29

Wade Boggs

American baseball player

#30

Wang Yi Bo

Chinese singer | dancer | actor | motorbike racer and host | a member of the UNIQ

Wang #3

#31

Wallace Beery

American actor (1885-1949)

#32

Wade Barrett

British professional wrestler

#33

Whitney Blake

Film and television actress | director; television producer

#34

Wolfgang Bodison

American actor

A Few Good Men

#35

Wilfried Bony

Ivorian association football player

#36

Walther von Brauchitsch

German field marshal (1881-1948)

#37

Wayne Bridge

English footballer (born 1980)

#38

Werner von Blomberg

German field marshal

#39

Weyes Blood

American musician

#40

Win Butler

Canadian-American singer | songwriter | musician | and multi-instrumentalist; member of the band Arcade Fire

#41

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

French academic painter (1825-1905)

#42

Wes Brown

English association football player

#43

Won Bin

South Korean actor | model

#44

William M. Branham

American Christian minister

William #136

#45

William G. Boykin

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

William #137

#46

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

English statesman

William #138

#47

William Boyd

American actor

William #139

#48

Warren Brown

British actor

#49

William Peter Blatty

American writer and filmmaker (1928-2017)

William #143 The Exorcist

#50

Watson Brown

American abolitionist

#51

Wesley Bryan

American golfer (1990-)

#52

William Brocius

gunman | rustler | outlaw

William #155

#53

Warren Earl Burger

Chief justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986 (1907-1995)

#54

Winston Bogarde

Dutch footballer

#55

Wes Ball

American film director

#56

Willy Boly

Ivorian association football player

#57

William Brydon

assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army

William #170

#58

William Boyd

British writer

William #175

#59

Wilhelm Burgdorf

German general

#60

Will Brill

American actor

Caught Stealing

#61

William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington

British photographer

William #181

#62

Wendy Barrie

English actress

#63

William Bendix

American actor (1906-1964)

William #185

#64

William Borah

American politician

William #187

#65

William Bufalino

American attorney

William #194

#66

Wolfgang Beltracchi

German art forger

#67

Willam Belli

American actor

#68

William Francis Buckley

United States Army officer and the CIA station chief in Beirut

#69

Willow Bay

American television journalist | editor | author | and former model

#70

William Brewster

Religious emigrant to North America and leader there

#71

W. Michael Blumenthal

Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

#72

Wesley Bell

prosecuting attorney of St. Louis county

#73

Wes Brown

American actor

#74

William Byron

American racecar driver

#75

Wilfred Benítez

World champion boxer

#76

W. Kamau Bell

American comedian

#77

Wes Butters

British broadcaster

#78

Whit Bissell

American actor

Soylent Green

#79

Wilson Bentley

American photographer

#80

William J. Brennan

U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1956 to 1990

#81

Wade Belak

Canadian ice hockey player

#82

William J. Bratton

American police officer

#83

William Bennett

American politician

#84

William L. Borden

Staff Director of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy in 1949

#85

Wilhelm Boger

Holocaust perpetrator | Gestapo and SS officer at Auschwitz

#86

William Richard Bradford

American serial killer

#87

Wilhelm Bittrich

German general

#88

William Booth

British Methodist preacher

#89

Wesley Blake

American professional wrestler

#90

William Beckett

American musician

#91

William Buckland

English clergyman | geologist and palaeontologist

#92

William Vansittart Bowater

British businessman

#93

William Blackstone

English jurist | judge and Tory politician

#94

William Borland

Scottish darts player

#95

Walker Buehler

American baseball player (born 1994)

#96

Wesley Britt

player of American football

#97

Will Brittain

American actor

#98

Walter Burke

American actor

Walter #66

#99

William Byrd

British composer

#100

Warner Baxter

American actor

#101

Werner Best

German general

#102

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee

Indian barrister and first president of Indian National Congress

#103

William Cullen Bryant

American romantic poet and journalist

#104

William Benter

American gambler

#105

Wally Backman

American baseball player

#106

Willis Bouchey

American actor

#107

Wallis Bird

Irish musician

#108

Wang Baoqiang

Chinese actor

Wang #17

#109

William Boyett

American actor

#110

William Beck

Welsh born actor

Snatch

#111

William F. Baker

American civil engineer

#112

Wesley Burns

British footballer (born 1994)

#113

William Blair

Scottish judge

#114

William J. A. Bailey

American quack

#115

William Brice

American artist

#116

Willem Barents

navigator | cartographer | explorer

#117

Walter Block

Austrian School economist and prominent anarcho-capitalist

Walter #80

#118

Willie Brown

American football executive and former player and coach

#119

William Bast

Author | screenwriter

#120

Wattie Buchan

British musician

#121

William Baker

British engineer | born 1817

#122

William Bell

singer

#123

Walter Buch

German general

Walter #85

#124

Wilfried Böse

founding member of the German far-left organization Revolutionary Cells

#125

Wayne Black

Zimbabwean tennis player

#126

William H. P. Blandy

American admiral

#127

Wilfred Bion

British psychoanalyst & psychiatrist

#128

Winston Blackmore

Mormon fundamentalist leader

#129

Wes Brisco

American professional wrestler

#130

Walter Bagehot

British journalist | businessman | and essayist

Walter #92

#131

Walt Bellamy

American professional basketball player

#132

William Bosi

British rock climber

#133

Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch

British politician

Walter #93

#134

William J. Burns

American Secret Service agent

#135

Wilhelm Brasse

Polish photographer

#136

Wendy Benson

actress

#137

William Basinski

American composer

#138

Walerian Borowczyk

film director

#139

Wilhelm von Bismarck

German politician

#140

Walter Brueggemann

American theologian

Walter #100

#141

William Beveridge

Economist and social reformer

#142

Wang Bohao

Chinese footballer

Wang #26

#143

William O'Connell Bradley

politician from the US state of Kentucky

#144

William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp

British Liberal politician and Governor of New South Wales

#145

Willi Boskovsky

Austrian musician

#146

Walter Berry

American basketball player

Walter #106

#147

Will Barton

American basketball player

#148

W. O. Bentley

British automotive engineer (1888-1971)

#149

Wayne Bennett

Australian rugby league footballer and coach

#150

Walter Breuning

World's oldest man

Walter #108

#151

William Brown

Admiral in the Argentine Navy

#152

William Blum

American author and historian

#153

William Buckley

English convict who was transported to Australia and then escaped

#154

Wendy Beckett

British Catholic nun and presenter of documentaries for the BBC on the history of art

#155

Wang Bing

Chinese film director

Wang #32

#156

Will Buxton

Formula One digital presenter

Gran Turismo

#157

William Lawrence Bragg

Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer

#158

Ward Burton

American racing driver

#159

Wouter Basson

South African cardiologist

#160

William B. Bader

former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State

#161

William Bogert

actor

#162

William B. Bankhead

American politician

#163

Willard Bean

American boxer

#164

William Bishop

American actor

#165

Walt Barnes

American football player | actor (1918-1998)

#166

Wayne Bloom

professional wrestler

#167

William Bramley

American actor

#168

William Blount

Signer of the United States Constitution

#169

Will Bayley

British table tennis player

#170

Willie Brown

guitar player and vocalist

#171

William Brodie

British politician

#172

William Henry Bragg

British scientist

#173

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

German composer | organist | harpsichordist

#174

William Beechey

British artist

#175

Walter Bernstein

Screenwriter | film producer

Walter #131

#176

William Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch

British politician

#177

Wolf Biermann

German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident

#178

William H. T. Bush

American banker

#179

Walter Bonatti

Italian mountaineer

Walter #135

#180

Will Borgen

Ice hockey player

#181

Winnie Byanyima

Ugandan aeronautical engineer | politician and diplomat

#182

Warren Barton

English footballer

#183

William Banting

English undertaker and populariser of a weight loss diet

#184

Wouter Burger

association football player

#185

William Balikwisha

Belgian association football player

#186

Warren Bondo

French association football player

#187

William Whiting Borden

American missionary

#188

William Brereton

Groom in the household of Henry VIII of England

#189

Willie Bobo

American jazz percussionist (1934–1983)

#190

William Barclay

Scottish author | presenter | Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow

#191

Warren Berlinger

Television | film | stage actor

#192

William Burges

English architect

#193

Willie Best

actor

#194

William Breeze

musician; Frater Superior of Ordo Templi Orientis

#195

William J. Bosanko

deputy archivist of the United States

#196

William V, Duke of Bavaria

(1548-1626)

#197

Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch

British politician and nobleman

Walter #143

#198

William Berkeley

English colonial governor of Virginia

#199

William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford

British soldier and politician

#200

William M. Bass

Forensic anthropologist

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Famous people with the initials WB
February 2, 2026