List of Eponyms (L-Z) - W

W

• Robert Wade — Wade Defence
• Richard Wagner — Wagner tuba, a brass instrument that combines elements of both the French horn and the tuba.
• Samuel Wallis, 18th century navigator — Wallis and Futuna
• Sam Walton — Wal-Mart and Sam's Club
• Preston Ware — Ware Opening
• the brothers Jack Warner, Sam Warner, Harold Warner and Albert Warner — Warner Bros.
• Arthur P. Warner and John K. Stewart — Stewart-Warner
• George Washington — Washington and Washington D.C.
• James Watt (1736–1819) — the watt, a unit of power
• Wilhelm Eduard Weber — weber, unit of magnetic flux
• Friedrich Wegener — Wegener's granulomatosis
• Peter J. Weinberger — the second letter of the name awk, a computer pattern/action language, is taken from Weinberger
• Duke of Wellington — Beef Wellington, Wellington boot, Wellington (New Zealand), Wellingtonia (tree)
• Eudora Welty — Eudora, an e-mail client.
• Mae West (1893–1980), busty actress for whom the flotation safety vest was named.
• Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr — Delaware
• George Hoyt Whipple — Whipple's disease
• Gough Whitlam, Australian Prime Minister - The Whitlams pop group
• Frederick Methvan Whyte (1865–1941) — Whyte notation
• Wilhelm Wien — Wien's displacement law
• Eugene Wigner — Wigner's friend
• Erik Adolf von Willebrand — Von Willebrand disease, Von Willebrand factor
• Max Wilms, a German surgeon — Wilms' tumor
• Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson — Wilson's disease, Wilson disease protein
• Oliver F. Winchester — chief investor Winchester repeating rifle
• Caspar Wistar (1761–1818) — Wisteria
• Kaspar Friedrich Wolff — Wolffian duct
• Frank Winfield Woolworth - Woolworth Building