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- Alick Walker - Palaeontologist.
- Tom Walker - Sunday Times foreign correspondent.
- Lord Walton of Detchant - Physician, President of the General Medical Council, British Medical Association, Royal Society of Medicine and Warden of Green College, Oxford 1983–1989.
- Kevin Warwick - Professor of Cybernetics, was a Lecturer in Electrical & Electronic Engineering.
- Charlie Webster - Television sports presenter.
- Professor Li Wei - Professor of Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck College, University of London.
- Joseph Joshua Weiss - Professor of Radiation Chemistry.
- Robert Westall - Children's writer, twice winner of Carnegie Medal.
- Thomas Stanley Westoll - Fellow of the Royal Society.
- Gillian Whitehead - Composer.
- Zoe Williams - Sports woman, worked on Gladiators.
- Philip Williamson - Former Chief Executive of Nationwide Building Society.
- Donald I. Williamson - Planktologist and carcinologist.
- John Willis - Royal Air Force officer and council member of the University.
- Lukas Wooller - Keyboard player, Maxïmo Park.
- Graham Wylie - Co-founder of the Sage Group. Studied Computing Science and graduated in 1980.
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