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- Matt Wachter (30 Seconds to Mars, Angels and Airwaves)
- Andreas Wallan Wahl (Therion, Serpent)
- Greg T. Walker (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blackfoot)
- Jeffrey Walker (Carcass)
- Jon Walker (Panic! at the Disco, The Young Veins)
- Scott Walker (The Walker Brothers)
- Joe Walsh (Eagles)
- Dennis Ward (Pink Cream 69)
- Tim Ward (The Fall of Troy)
- John Warne (Relient K, Guerilla Rodeo)
- Andy Warren (The Monochrome Set)
- Jared Warren (Karp, Big Business, The Melvins)
- Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)
- Mike Watt (The Minutemen, Firehose, The Stooges)
- Norman Watt-Roy (The Blockheads)
- Nathan Watts (Stevie Wonder)
- Peter Watts (Mott the Hoople)
- Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse)
- Dallon Weekes (Panic! at the Disco, The Brobecks)
- Willie Weeks (Stevie Wonder, George Harrison, Eric Clapton)
- Danny Weinkauf (They Might Be Giants)
- Andrew Weiss (Ween, Gone, Rollins Band, Regressive Aid)
- Mikey Welsh (Weezer)
- Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy)
- Uwe Wessel (Gamma Ray)
- Bob Weston (Shellac)
- John Wetton (Asia, King Crimson)
- Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads)
- Chris White (The Zombies)
- Jeordie White (Marilyn Manson, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails)
- Verdine White (Earth, Wind & Fire)
- Nick Wiggins (Aiden)
- Tal Wilkenfeld (Jeff Beck)
- Leon Wilkeson (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
- Cliff Williams (AC/DC)
- Hank Williams III (Superjoint Ritual)
- Leo Williams (Big Audio Dynamite, Dreadzone, Carbon/Silicon)
- Trevor Williams (Audience, Jonathan Kelly's Outside)
- Gary Willis (Tribal Tech)
- Matt Willis (Busted)
- Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys)
- Eric Wilson (Sublime, Long Beach Dub Allstars)
- Liam Wilson (The Dillinger Escape Plan)
- Mark Wilson (Jet)
- Paul Wilson (Snow Patrol)
- Doug Wimbish (Sugarhill Gang, Living Colour, Tackhead, Mick Jagger, Joe Satriani)
- Kip Winger (Alice Cooper, Winger)
- Muff Winwood (Spencer Davis Group)
- Steve Winwood (Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Go, Blind Faith)
- Nicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers)
- Jason Wisdom (Becoming the Archetype)
- Jah Wobble (Public Image Limited)
- Tom "T-Bone" Wolk (Hall & Oates, Billy Joel, Carly Simon)
- Chris Wolstenholme (Muse)
- Stevie Wonder
- Matt Wong (Reel Big Fish)
- Steve Wong (Beyond)
- Chris Wood (Medeski, Martin and Wood)
- Craig Wood (Avril Lavigne, Gob)
- Stuart John Wood (Bay City Rollers)
- Allen Woody (Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule)
- Victor Wooten (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Bass Extremes, Vital Tech Tones)
- D'arcy Wretzky (The Smashing Pumpkins)
- Chuck Wright (Giuffria, Quiet Riot, House of Lords)
- Rob Wright (Nomeansno)
- Tomasz "Orion" Wróblewski (Behemoth)
- Bill Wyman (The Rolling Stones)
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