Famous people with the initials WB July 13, 2026

American actor | producer | and writer (born 1963)

Interstellar

William Baldwin

William #12

Wayne Brady

American actor | comedian | and television personality

Whitey Bulger

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

W. E. B. Du Bois

American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)

William S. Burroughs

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

William #18 Naked Lunch

#10

Wilford Brimley

American actor and singer (1934–2020)

The Thing

#11

Wilson Bethel

English poet and artist (1757–1827)

#12

William Blake

William #20 And did those feet in ancient time

#13

Wes Borland

American musician

#14

Warren Brown

British actor

#15

William Earl Brown

William #29 There's Something About Mary

#16

Walter Becker

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

Walter #7

#17

Wes Brown

English association football player

#18

Ward Bond

American actor (1903–1960)

Gone with the Wind

#19

Wade Boggs

American actor (1894–1974)

#20

Walter Brennan

Walter #10

#21

William Jennings Bryan

American politician (1860–1925)

William #56

#22

Willy Brandt

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

#23

Walter Benjamin

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

Walter #12

#24

Wellington R. Burt

American politician (1831–1919)

#25

William Bligh

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

William #91

#26

William Bonin

American serial killer (1947–1996)

William #92

#27

Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia

king of Bohemia and Germany

#28

Wayne Bridge

English footballer (born 1980)

#29

Wilfried Bony

Ivorian association football player

#30

Wendell Berry

author

#31

William Bendix

American actor (1906-1964)

William #98

#32

Warren Barton

English footballer

#33

Whitney Blake

Film and television actress | director; television producer

#34

Whitney Kroenke Burditt

heiress | film producer | philanthropist

#35

Wilfrid Brambell

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

#36

William Francis Buckley

United States Army officer and the CIA station chief in Beirut

William #112

#37

Won Bin

South Korean actor | model

#38

William Byron

American racecar driver

William #121

#39

Weyes Blood

American musician

#40

Wang Yi Bo

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

Wang #7

#41

Wallace Beery

American actor (1885-1949)

#42

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

French academic painter (1825-1905)

#43

Wolf Blitzer

German-American journalist and television news anchor

#44

Walther von Brauchitsch

German field marshal (1881-1948)

#45

Wesley Bryan

American golfer (1990-)

#46

Win Butler

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

#47

William M. Branham

American Christian minister

William #136

#48

William Peter Blatty

American writer and filmmaker (1928-2017)

William #137 The Exorcist The Exorcist

#49

Wade Barrett

British professional wrestler

#50

Wayne Bennett

Australian rugby league footballer and coach

#51

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

English statesman

William #141

#52

Walt Bellamy

American professional basketball player

#53

Warren Earl Burger

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

#54

William Richard Bradford

American serial killer

William #145

#55

William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington

British photographer

William #147

#56

William Brocius

gunman | rustler | outlaw

William #151

#57

William Borah

American politician

William #153

#58

Walker Buehler

American baseball player (born 1994)

#59

Willam Belli

#60

Werner von Blomberg

German field marshal

#61

Whit Bissell

William #189 Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960

Soylent Green

#62

Wes Ball

American film director

#63

William Bufalino

American attorney

William #188

#64

William Boyd

British writer

#65

Wesley Bell

prosecuting attorney of St. Louis county

#66

W. Kamau Bell

American comedian

#67

Willy Boly

Ivorian association football player

#68

Willow Bay

American television journalist | editor | author | and former model

#69

William Brewster

Religious emigrant to North America and leader there

#70

Wilhelm Burgdorf

Formula One digital presenter

#71

Wally Bayola

Filipino comedian

#72

Will Buxton

#73

William Boyd

American sports businessman

#74

Walter A. Brown

Walter #50

#75

Wendy Barrie

English actress

#76

William J. Brennan

U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1956 to 1990

#77

William Benter

American gambler

#78

Wilfred Benítez

World champion boxer

#79

Wesley Britt

player of American football

#80

William Bialek

American biophysicist

#81

Wolfgang Bodison

A Few Good Men

#82

William Buick

British jockey

#83

Wilhelm Bittrich

British Methodist preacher

#84

William Booth

#85

William Beck

Welsh born actor

#86

Wally Backman

American professional wrestler

#87

Wesley Blake

#88

William J. Bratton

American police officer

#89

William Bennett

American politician

#90

William Basinski

American composer

#91

Ward Burton

American racing driver

#92

Wade Belak

Canadian ice hockey player

#93

Woo Bum-kon

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

#94

William Vansittart Bowater

British businessman

#95

William Blackstone

English jurist | judge and Tory politician

#96

William Byrd

British composer

#97

Winston Bogarde

Dutch footballer

#98

Watson Brown

American abolitionist

#99

Willie Bloomquist

#100

Wes Brown

English clergyman | geologist and palaeontologist

#101

William Buckland

#102

Wolfgang Beltracchi

German art forger

#103

Will Brittain

#104

Walter Burke

Indian barrister and first president of Indian National Congress

Walter #75

#105

Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee

#106

William Cullen Bryant

American romantic poet and journalist

#107

Wilmar Barrios

Colombian association football player

#108

Winston Blackmore

Mormon fundamentalist leader

#109

Willis Bouchey

#110

Will Brill

Caught Stealing

#111

William Boyett

navigator | cartographer | explorer

#112

Willem Barents

#113

Wilfred Bion

British psychoanalyst & psychiatrist

#114

Wendy Benson

actress

#115

Will Brooks

American Southern artist

#116

Wouter Basson

South African cardiologist

#117

Wilfried Böse

founding member of the German far-left organization Revolutionary Cells

#118

William Brown

Admiral in the Argentine Navy

#119

William Bast

Author | screenwriter

#120

Wattie Buchan

British musician

#121

Walt Barnes

American football player | actor (1918-1998)

#122

Werner Best

Dutch-born Surinamese Roman Catholic bishop

#123

Walter Breuning

World's oldest man

Walter #86

#124

Wilhelmus de Bekker

#125

Walter Bagehot

British journalist | businessman | and essayist

Walter #88

#126

William G. Boykin

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

#127

Will Bednar

Economist and social reformer

#128

William Beveridge

#129

Warner Baxter

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

#130

Wilhelm von Bismarck

German politician

#131

Wendy Beckett

#132

William Bell

singer

#133

William Lawrence Bragg

Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer

#134

Wes Brisco

American professional wrestler

#135

William Burrell

Scottish shipping magnate and philanthropist

#136

William Beckett

American musician

#137

Wang Baoqiang

Chinese actor

Wang #29

#138

William Blount

Signer of the United States Constitution

#139

Walter Brueggemann

American theologian

Walter #111

#140

Will Barton

American basketball player

#141

Walerian Borowczyk

film director

#142

William Bogert

actor

#143

William Blair

Scottish judge

#144

William H. T. Bush

American banker

#145

W. O. Bentley

British automotive engineer (1888-1971)

#146

William Buckley

English convict who was transported to Australia and then escaped

#147

William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood

British Army general

#148

William Barksdale

Confederate Army general

#149

Willie Best

actor

#150

Walter Buch

French association football player

Walter #120

#151

Warren Bondo

#152

William Beaumont

American physician

#153

Walter Bahr

American soccer player

Walter #122

#154

Walter Block

Austrian School economist and prominent anarcho-capitalist

Walter #125

#155

William Brodie

British politician

#156

William F. Baker

American civil engineer

#157

Warren Berlinger

Television | film | stage actor

#158

William Bolcom

American composer

#159

Wilhelm Brasse

Polish photographer

#160

Wolf Biermann

German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident

#161

Willie Bosket

American murderer

#162

Wally Badarou

French / Beninese musician

#163

Walter Bechtold

German footballer

Walter #132

#164

William B. Bankhead

American politician

#165

Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch

British politician

Walter #135

#166

William Berger

Austrian actor

#167

William J. Burns

American Secret Service agent

#168

Wally Buono

Player of American and Canadian football

#169

William Breeze

musician; Frater Superior of Ordo Templi Orientis

#170

W. Michael Blumenthal

Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

#171

Wesley Burns

British footballer (born 1994)

#172

Winston Bennett

American basketball player

#173

Willie Bobo

American jazz percussionist (1934–1983)

#174

Wilhelm Boger

Holocaust perpetrator | Gestapo and SS officer at Auschwitz

#175

William Burges

English architect

#176

William J. A. Bailey

American quack

#177

William Bainbridge

United States Navy officer

#178

William Barclay

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

#179

William V, Duke of Bavaria

(1548-1626)

#180

Wayne Brown

New Zealand local politician

#181

Warren A. Bechtel

American businessman

#182

William Bosi

British rock climber

#183

William Berkeley

English colonial governor of Virginia

#184

Woolf Barnato

British financier and racing driver

#185

Walter Berry

American basketball player

Walter #145

#186

Walter Bonatti

Italian mountaineer

Walter #146

#187

Wang Bing

Chinese film director

Wang #41

#188

William Brangham

American journalist

#189

William Brereton

Groom in the household of Henry VIII of England

#190

Władysław Bartoszewski

Polish politician and activist

#191

William Henry Bragg

British scientist

#192

Willie Brown

guitar player and vocalist

#193

Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709-1758)

#194

Wayne Bloom

professional wrestler

#195

Will Benson