List of Bostonians - W

W

• Brian Woods – Documentary film-maker
• Donnie Wahlberg - Actor, Singer, Producer (See New Kids on the Block)
• Mark Wahlberg – Actor, Rapper, Producer
• Jimmy Walker (basketball), NBA All Star
• Mike Wallace – Television Correspondent
• Barbara Walters – News anchor and journalist
• Casey Walters – Actor, Harbor Command
• An Wang – Computer Engineer and Inventor, and co-founder of computer company Wang Laboratories
• Gretchen Osgood Warren – Poet and Muse
• Fiske Warren – Paper Manufacturer and Philanthropist
• Sam Waterston – Actor
• Jack Welch – Businessman, former CEO of General Electric
• Westbound Train – Band
• Eli Whitney – Inventor of The Cotton Gin
• Jermaine Wiggins – NFL player
• Tony Williams – Jazz Drummer
• Alan Wilson (musician) – Singer, Guitarist (See Canned Heat)
• Alicia Witt – Actress (Actually 30 miles (48 km) west)
• Danny Wood – Singer (See New Kids on the Block)
• Gene Wood – Game show announcer
• George Wood, born in Boston, major league baseball player
• Benjamin Edward Woolf - British-born composer, playwright and journalist. Worked on the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette and the Boston Globe.
• Steven Wright – Academy Award-winning comedian, actor and writer.
• Phillis Wheatley– Poet and former slave.