Famous people with the initials WB July 23, 2025 to August 12, 2025

American investor | entrepreneur and businessman

Warren Buffett

Whitey Bulger

American gangster and crime boss (1929-2018)

Warren Beatty

American actor and filmmaker

Wernher von Braun

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

William S. Burroughs

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

William #14 Naked Lunch

Wes Bentley

American actor | producer | and writer (born 1963)

Interstellar

William Baldwin

William #17

William Blake

English poet and artist (1757–1827)

William #19 And did those feet in ancient time

#10

Wayne Brady

American actor | comedian | and television personality

#11

W. E. B. Du Bois

American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)

#12

Wilford Brimley

American actor and singer (1934–2020)

The Thing

#13

Wes Borland

American musician

#14

William Bonin

American serial killer (1947–1996)

William #31

#15

Walter Brennan

American actor (1894–1974)

Walter #6

#16

William Jennings Bryan

American politician (1860–1925)

William #33

#17

Wade Boggs

British professional wrestler

#18

Wade Barrett

#19

Walter Becker

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

Walter #9

#20

Ward Bond

American actor (1903–1960)

Gone with the Wind

#21

Won Bin

South Korean actor | model

#22

Wang Yi Bo

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

Wang #1

#23

Wolf Blitzer

German-American journalist and television news anchor

#24

William Bligh

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

William #81

#25

Willy Brandt

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

#26

Walter Benjamin

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

Walter #15

#27

Walker Buehler

American professional baseball player

#28

William Byron

American racecar driver

William #86

#29

Wallace Beery

American actor (1885-1949)

#30

Wendell Berry

author

#31

W. Kamau Bell

American comedian

#32

William M. Branham

American Christian minister

William #93

#33

Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia

king of Bohemia and Germany

#34

Wayne Bennett

Australian rugby league footballer and coach

#35

Willam Belli

English footballer (born 1980)

#36

Wayne Bridge

#37

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

English statesman

William #119

#38

William Earl Brown

prosecuting attorney of St. Louis county

William #120 Vanilla Sky

#39

Wesley Bell

#40

Wesley Bryan

American golfer (1990-)

#41

Wilfrid Brambell

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

#42

Whitney Blake

Film and television actress | director; television producer

#43

William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington

British photographer

William #124

#44

William Brocius

gunman | rustler | outlaw

William #125

#45

Win Butler

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

#46

Wes Brown

English association football player

#47

Walther von Brauchitsch

German field marshal (1881-1948)

#48

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

French academic painter (1825-1905)

#49

Wilfred Benítez

World champion boxer

#50

Wilfried Bony

Ivorian association football player

#51

Weyes Blood

American musician

#52

Wes Brown

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

#53

Warren Earl Burger

#54

William Borah

American actor (1906-1964)

William #163

#55

Werner von Blomberg

German field marshal

#56

William Bendix

William #169

#57

William Peter Blatty

American writer and filmmaker (1928-2017)

William #172 The Exorcist The Exorcist

#58

Wolfgang Bodison

American television journalist | editor | author | and former model

A Few Good Men

#59

Willow Bay

#60

Wellington R. Burt

#61

William Boyd

British writer

William #189

#62

Wilhelm Burgdorf

Religious emigrant to North America and leader there

#63

William Brewster

William #190

#64

William Bennett

French association football player

William #192

#65

Warren Brown

British actor

#66

Warren Bondo

#67

William Bufalino

American attorney

William #200

#68

Wes Ball

American film director

#69

Wesley Blake

American professional wrestler

#70

William J. Bratton

American police officer

#71

Whit Bissell

U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1956 to 1990

#72

Wendy Barrie

English actress

#73

William J. Brennan

#74

William Francis Buckley

United States Army officer and the CIA station chief in Beirut

#75

Will Buxton

Formula One digital presenter

#76

Wesley Britt

player of American football

#77

Will Blackmon

Player of American football

#78

Wes Brisco

American professional wrestler

#79

William L. Borden

Staff Director of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy in 1949

#80

Wang Baoqiang

Chinese actor

Wang #13

#81

Winston Bogarde

Dutch footballer

#82

William Booth

British Methodist preacher

#83

William Boyett

#84

Wilhelm Bittrich

Ivorian association football player

#85

Willy Boly

#86

William Byrd

British composer

#87

William J. Bell

American screenwriter

#88

Wally Bayola

Filipino comedian

#89

Will Brill

Caught Stealing

#90

William Boyd

English jurist | judge and Tory politician

#91

William Blackstone

#92

William Basinski

American composer

#93

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee

Indian barrister and first president of Indian National Congress

#94

Wilfried Böse

founding member of the German far-left organization Revolutionary Cells

#95

Will Benson

#96

William Brice

American artist

#97

Willis Bouchey

#98

Walter Brueggemann

American theologian

Walter #70

#99

Will Brittain

association football player

#100

Wouter Burger

#101

William Bast

Author | screenwriter

#102

Ward Burton

American racing driver

#103

Whitney Kroenke Burditt

heiress | film producer | philanthropist

#104

Walter Burke

Walter #73

#105

Will Bednar

English clergyman | geologist and palaeontologist

#106

William Buckland

#107

Wally Backman

American finance and investment writer

#108

Walter Breuning

World's oldest man

Walter #76

#109

William Bengen

#110

Wendy Benson

actress

#111

Wattie Buchan

British musician

#112

Winston Blackmore

Mormon fundamentalist leader

#113

William Buckley

English convict who was transported to Australia and then escaped

#114

Wilfred Burchett

Australian journalist

#115

William Cullen Bryant

American romantic poet and journalist

#116

William Brown

Admiral in the Argentine Navy

#117

Werner Best

#118

William Beckett

American musician

#119

Warner Baxter

American football player and coach

#120

William Tank Black

#121

William G. Boykin

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

#122

William Ball

American actor and director

#123

Watson Brown

American abolitionist

#124

Willem Barents

navigator | cartographer | explorer

#125

Wesley Burns

British footballer (born 1994)

#126

Walter Bonatti

Italian mountaineer

Walter #92

#127

William F. Baker

American civil engineer

#128

William Breeze

musician; Frater Superior of Ordo Templi Orientis

#129

Wouter Basson

South African cardiologist

#130

Walt Bellamy

American professional basketball player

#131

Wilfred Bion

British psychoanalyst & psychiatrist

#132

William J. Burns

American Secret Service agent

#133

Will Barton

American basketball player

#134

Walerian Borowczyk

film director

#135

Walt Barnes

American football player | actor (1918-1998)

#136

Warren Berlinger

Television | film | stage actor

#137

William Brodie

British politician

#138

William Beveridge

Economist and social reformer

#139

Walter Bagehot

British journalist | businessman | and essayist

Walter #101

#140

Walter Block

Austrian School economist and prominent anarcho-capitalist

Walter #102

#141

Will Brown

Australian racing driver

#142

Willie Best

actor

#143

William Blount

Signer of the United States Constitution

#144

W. O. Bentley

British automotive engineer (1888-1971)

#145

Willie Brown

guitar player and vocalist

#146

William K. Brehm

Assistant Secretary of Defense

#147

William Lawrence Bragg

Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer

#148

William Beck

Welsh born actor

#149

William Beaumont

American physician

#150

William Buick

British jockey

#151

William Bell

singer

#152

Willie Bobo

American jazz percussionist (1934–1983)

#153

William B. Bankhead

English association football player (born 1995)

#154

Will Boyle

#155

William Bogert

actor

#156

Wayne Bloom

professional wrestler

#157

Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch

British politician

Walter #107

#158

William Barclay

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

#159

Walter Buch

American football executive and former player and coach

Walter #109

#160

Wilhelm von Bismarck

German politician

#161

Willie Brown

#162

Wendy Beckett

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

#163

William B. Bader

former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State

#164

William Barksdale

Confederate Army general

#165

William Berger

Austrian actor

#166

Walter Baldwin

Walter #119 Rosemary's Baby

#167

Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch

British politician and nobleman

Walter #120

#168

Wade Belak

Canadian ice hockey player

#169

William Blair

Scottish judge

#170

Warren Barguil

French cyclist

#171

Wayne Brown

New Zealand local politician

#172

William Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch

British politician

#173

William J. A. Bailey

American quack

#174

William V, Duke of Bavaria

(1548-1626)

#175

Wolf Biermann

German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident

#176

William H. T. Bush

American banker

#177

W. Michael Blumenthal

Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

#178

William Bosi

British rock climber

#179

William Burges

English architect

#180

William Henry Bragg

British scientist

#181

Will Bynum

American basketball player

#182

William Bishop

German composer | organist | harpsichordist

#183

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

#184

Wolfgang Beltracchi

German art forger

#185

Wilhelm Brasse

Polish photographer

#186

William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood

British Army general

#187

Will Brooks

American Southern artist

#188

Will Brodie

Australian rules footballer

#189

William Richard Bradford

American serial killer

#190

Wu Bai

Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor

#191

William Blum

American author and historian

#192

William Bainbridge

United States Navy officer

#193

Walter Brooke