Famous people with the initials WB March 12, 2026

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

Interstellar

William S. Burroughs

William #16 Naked Lunch

Wilford Brimley

American actor and singer (1934–2020)

The Thing

#10

William Blake

English poet and artist (1757–1827)

William #21 And did those feet in ancient time

#11

William Baldwin

American actor | producer | and writer (born 1963)

William #23

#12

Wayne Brady

American actor | comedian | and television personality

#13

Walter Brennan

American actor (1894–1974)

Walter #6

#14

Walter Becker

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

Walter #8

#15

William Byron

American racecar driver

William #46

#16

William Jennings Bryan

American politician (1860–1925)

William #51

#17

Wilson Bethel

American actor (1903–1960)

#18

Ward Bond

Gone with the Wind

#19

Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia

king of Bohemia and Germany

#20

Wes Borland

American musician

#21

Wesley Britt

player of American football

#22

Walker Buehler

American baseball player (born 1994)

#23

Walter Benjamin

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

Walter #13

#24

William Earl Brown

German-American journalist and television news anchor

William #68 Scream

#25

Wolf Blitzer

#26

Willy Brandt

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

#27

Wendell Berry

author

#28

William Bonin

American serial killer (1947–1996)

William #78

#29

Wesley Bell

prosecuting attorney of St. Louis county

#30

William Bligh

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

William #80

#31

Wang Yi Bo

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

Wang #3

#32

Wade Barrett

British professional wrestler

#33

Wade Boggs

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

#34

Win Butler

#35

William Peter Blatty

American writer and filmmaker (1928-2017)

William #98 The Exorcist

#36

Won Bin

South Korean actor | model

#37

Whitney Blake

Film and television actress | director; television producer

#38

Wilfrid Brambell

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

#39

Warren Earl Burger

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

#40

William M. Branham

American Christian minister

William #110

#41

Wes Brown

English association football player

#42

Wallace Beery

American actor (1885-1949)

#43

Will Buxton

Formula One digital presenter

#44

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

French academic painter (1825-1905)

#45

Walther von Brauchitsch

German field marshal (1881-1948)

#46

Weyes Blood

American musician

#47

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

English statesman

William #140

#48

William Blair

Scottish judge

William #143

#49

William Brocius

gunman | rustler | outlaw

William #144

#50

Wayne Bridge

English footballer (born 1980)

#51

William Borah

New Zealand architect (1885-1969)

William #151

#52

Werner von Blomberg

German field marshal

#53

William Swanson Read Bloomfield

William #159

#54

Wilfried Bony

Ivorian association football player

#55

Wesley Bryan

American golfer (1990-)

#56

Warren Brown

British actor

#57

William Boyd

British writer

William #176

#58

William J. Brennan

U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1956 to 1990

William #180

#59

William J. Bratton

American police officer

William #181

#60

William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington

British photographer

William #182

#61

William Bialek

American biophysicist

William #184

#62

William Bendix

American actor (1906-1964)

William #188

#63

William Brewster

Religious emigrant to North America and leader there

William #190

#64

Wendy Barrie

English actress

#65

Willow Bay

American television journalist | editor | author | and former model

#66

Wes Ball

American film director

#67

Wilfred Benítez

World champion boxer

#68

Wilhelm Burgdorf

#69

William Campbell Preston Breckinridge

American professional wrestler

#70

Wesley Blake

#71

Wally Bayola

Filipino comedian

#72

Willam Belli

Australian rugby league footballer and coach

#73

Wayne Bennett

#74

Whit Bissell

Soylent Green

#75

William Bufalino

American attorney

#76

William Boyd

#77

W. Kamau Bell

American comedian

#78

Will Brill

American ice hockey administrator

Caught Stealing

#79

Walter Bush

Walter #45

#80

Wade Belak

Canadian ice hockey player

#81

William J. A. Bailey

American quack

#82

William Basinski

American composer

#83

Wilfried Böse

founding member of the German far-left organization Revolutionary Cells

#84

Ward Burton

American racing driver

#85

William Buckland

English clergyman | geologist and palaeontologist

#86

Watson Brown

American abolitionist

#87

William Byrd

British composer

#88

William Blackstone

English jurist | judge and Tory politician

#89

Wolfgang Bodison

A Few Good Men

#90

William Bennett

#91

Walter Burke

British Methodist preacher

Walter #59

#92

William Booth

#93

William Vansittart Bowater

British businessman

#94

William Beck

Welsh born actor

Snatch

#95

Winston Bogarde

Dutch footballer

#96

Whitney Kroenke Burditt

heiress | film producer | philanthropist

#97

Wes Brown

Ivorian association football player

#98

Willy Boly

#99

Warner Baxter

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

#100

William G. Boykin

#101

William Brown

Admiral in the Argentine Navy

#102

Wolfgang Beltracchi

German art forger

#103

Wilhelm Bittrich

British journalist | businessman | and essayist

#104

Walerian Borowczyk

film director

#105

Walter Bagehot

Walter #74

#106

William Boyett

Fijian rugby league player

#107

Waqa Blake

#108

Will Barton

American basketball player

#109

Will Brittain

Economist and social reformer

#110

William Beveridge

#111

Wes Brisco

American professional wrestler

#112

Will Brennan

baseball player

#113

Walt Bellamy

American professional basketball player

#114

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee

Indian barrister and first president of Indian National Congress

#115

Wang Baoqiang

Chinese actor

Wang #21

#116

Walter Brueggemann

American theologian

Walter #87

#117

Wattie Buchan

British musician

#118

Wilfred Bion

British psychoanalyst & psychiatrist

#119

Wendy Benson

actress

#120

William Cullen Bryant

American romantic poet and journalist

#121

Werner Best

#122

William Bramley

Pakistani TV host | morning show host

#123

William Beckett

American musician

#124

Waseem Badami

#125

William Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch

British politician

#126

Willis Bouchey

United States Navy officer

#127

William Bast

Author | screenwriter

#128

William Benter

American gambler

#129

Wilhelm Brasse

Polish photographer

#130

William Bainbridge

#131

Willem Barents

navigator | cartographer | explorer

#132

William F. Baker

American civil engineer

#133

Warren A. Bechtel

American businessman

#134

Winston Blackmore

Mormon fundamentalist leader

#135

William Blount

Signer of the United States Constitution

#136

William B. Bankhead

South African cardiologist

#137

Wilson Bentley

American photographer

#138

William H. T. Bush

American banker

#139

Walter Bou

football player

Walter #107

#140

Wouter Basson

#141

Wendy Beckett

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

#142

William Lawrence Bragg

Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer

#143

W. Michael Blumenthal

Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

#144

Wilhelm von Bismarck

German politician

#145

William Buckley

English convict who was transported to Australia and then escaped

#146

Willie Bobo

American jazz percussionist (1934–1983)

#147

Will Bynum

American basketball player

#148

William Richard Bradford

American serial killer

#149

Will Brown

Australian racing driver

#150

William Bishop

Austrian School economist and prominent anarcho-capitalist

#151

Walter Block

Walter #114

#152

William Henry Bragg

British scientist

#153

William J. Burns

American Secret Service agent

#154

Walter Buch

South Korean spree killer | mass murderer and off-duty police officer who got drunk and killed 57 people with rifles and hand grenades | injured a further 38 | before blowing himself up with one of his hand grenades on April 27 | 1982

Walter #115

#155

Woo Bum-kon

#156

Walter Breuning

World's oldest man

Walter #119

#157

Willie Brown

American football executive and former player and coach

#158

Warren Berlinger

Television | film | stage actor

#159

Wally Backman

#160

Will Benson

Colombian association football player

#161

William Bell

singer

#162

Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch

British politician

Walter #129

#163

Wilmar Barrios

#164

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

German composer | organist | harpsichordist

#165

Willie Best

actor

#166

Wilhelm Boger

Holocaust perpetrator | Gestapo and SS officer at Auschwitz

#167

Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch

British politician and nobleman

Walter #133

#168

William Wells Brown

African-American abolitionist lecturer | novelist | playwright | and historian

#169

Walt Barnes

American football player | actor (1918-1998)

#170

Wolf Biermann

German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident

#171

Will Bednar

association football player

#172

Wouter Burger

#173

William Blum

American author and historian

#174

W. O. Bentley

British automotive engineer (1888-1971)

#175

William Barclay

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

#176

William Breeze

musician; Frater Superior of Ordo Templi Orientis

#177

William Bogert

actor

#178

Walter A. Brown

American sports businessman

Walter #138

#179

William L. Borden

Staff Director of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy in 1949

#180

William V, Duke of Bavaria

(1548-1626)

#181

William Brodie

British politician

#182

Walter Bonatti

Italian mountaineer

Walter #141

#183

Wayne Brown

New Zealand local politician

#184

William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp

British Liberal politician and Governor of New South Wales

#185

William Brydon

assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army

#186

Wes Bergmann

American reality television personality

#187

William Beechey

British artist

#188

Wayne Bloom

professional wrestler

#189

Willie Brown

guitar player and vocalist

#190

William Berkeley

English colonial governor of Virginia

#191

Wesley Burns

British footballer (born 1994)

#192

Willy Bogner

German alpine skier and entrepreneur

#193

Wang Bing

Chinese film director

Wang #43

#194

William Edward Binney

former U.S. intelligence official and cryptoanalyst; whistleblower

#195

Will Bayley

British table tennis player

#196

Wally Badarou

French / Beninese musician

#197

Walter Brooke