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| Jujiro Wada | ca. 1872 | 1937 | Barrow, Fairbanks, Nome | adventurer |
| Velma Wallis | 1960 | living | Fairbanks, Fort Yukon | writer |
| Nathan West | 1978 | living | Anchorage | actor |
| Mr. Whitekeys | 1947 | living | Fairbanks, Spenard | writer, musician, commentator, satirist |
| James Wickersham | 1857 | 1939 | Eagle, Fairbanks, Juneau | judge and congressional delegate in the district and territory, made an early recorded ascent of Mount McKinley, compiled an important early bibliography of Alaska |
| Noel Wien | 1899 | 1977 | pioneering aviator | |
| Dave Williams | 1979 | living | Anchorage | professional baseball player |
| Barrett Willoughby | 1959 | writer | ||
| Charles Wood | 1916 | 1978 | Iditarod, Kodiak | singer and actor in Broadway musicals |
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