German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor (1832–1920)
Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was a German physiologist, philosopher, professor, and one of the fathers of modern psychology.
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Creators
Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
British writer (1824-1889)
Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White, a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone, which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhap
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English poet and artist (1757–1827)
William Blake
William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker.
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Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and literary critic who was one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.
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British Liberal prime minister (1809–1898)
William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone was a four-time prime minister of the United Kingdom.
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American writer (1897-1962)
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer.
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English journalist, political philosopher and novelist (1756–1836)
William Godwin
William Godwin was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist.
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British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1911–1993)
William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet.
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English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist (1697-1764)
William Hogarth
William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, cartoonist, and satirist.
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