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• Wilson, Charles, 1st Baron Nunburnholme
  British politician and shipowner during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wilson was head of a major shipping business, Thomas Wilson Sons & Co., based out of Hull, and the company operated routes to India and Australia.
• Wilson, James
  Scottish colonial businessman, economist and politician in the nineteenth century. Wilson was the founder of The Economist weekly newspaper, as well as Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China (today Standard Chartered). He was Financial Secretary to the Treasury between 1853 and 1858, and was briefly Paymaster General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade (1858) and Finance Member, Viceroy's Executive Council (1859-1860) after being sent out to India in the wake of the Indian Rebellion.
• Wilton, Joseph
  English sculptor in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Some of his notable colonial works include an equestrian statue of King George III in New York (which was destroyed in 1776), as well as memorials to Elizabeth Ottley in St John's Cathedral, Antigua and to Basil Keith, Mathew Gregory, and Lucretia Gregory in St Catherine’s Parish Church, Jamaica.
• Windsor-Clive, Robert, 1st Earl of Plymouth
  British aristocrat, landowner, Conservative politician, and descendant of Robert Clive.
• Wingate, Orde
  British Army officer who fought in the Arab Revolt, where he created the Special Night Squads (a British–Jewish counter-insurgency military unit), as well as the Second World War.
• Winter, Faith
  British sculptor in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
• Witherspoon, John
  Scottish-American slave-owner, clergyman, theologian and Founding Father of the United States in the eighteenth century.
• Wolfe, James
  British Army officer in the eighteenth century who fought in Canada.
• Wolseley, Garnet, 1st Viscount Wolseley
  British Army officer and colonial administrator in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wolseley served as Governor of the Gold Coast (1873-1874), Governor of Natal (1875), Governor of Transvaal (1879-1880), and Commander-in-Chief of the British Army (1895-1901) and fought in several colonial conflicts across North America, Asia, and Africa.
• Wood, Charles
  British politician in the nineteenth century. Wood was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1846-1852) during the Irish Famine, as well as President of the Board of Control (1852-1855), First Lord of the Admiralty (1855-1858), and Secretary of State for India (1859-1866).
• Wood, Francis Derwent
  British sculptor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Some of his notable colonial works include a bust of Cecil Rhodes, three statues of George Robinson in Ripon, Kolkata, and Chennai, and a statue of Edward VII, which was commissioned for Patiala in India.
• Wood, Marshall
  English sculptor in the nineteenth century.
• Woodall, Corbet
  English gas engineer in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Woodington, William Frederick
  English sculptor in the nineteenth century.
• Woolf, Virginia
  English writer and renowned modernist author in the twentieth century. Woolf's life was entangled with the British Empire in a number of ways. Her paternal grandfather, James Stephen (1789-1859), had been the British Undersecretary of State for the Colonies from 1836 to 1847, and her mother, Julia Jackson (1846-1895) was born to two Anglo-Indian families in Kolkata, India in 1846. Virginia was also involved in the Dreadnought Hoax of 1910, in which she and a group of pranksters dressed up as "Abyssinian royals" and wore blackface to board a Royal Navy ship as a trick. In 1912, Woolf married Leonard Sidney Woolf (1880-1969), who had returned to England after serving as a officer in the Ceylon Civil Service in Sri Lanka for seven years. In 1917, Virginia and Leonard founded the Hogarth Press publishing house. Virginia and Leonard wrote about empire throughout their lives, often working together collaboratively. One example on Virginia's side is her essay 'Thunder at Wembley' (1924), in which she recorded her reflections on the 1924 British Empire Exhibition in Wembley. References to empire can also be found throughout her classic works such as Mrs Dalloway (1925) and The Waves (1931). Leonard drew on his experiences in Sri Lanka for his fictional novel The Village in the Jungle (1913), as well as publishing the work Empire and Commerce in Africa (1920) which Virginia helped to research.
• Woolner, Thomas
  English poet and sculptor in the nineteenth century. Some of his notable colonial works include the statue of John Stuart Mill in London, the statue of James Cook in Sydney, and the statue of Stamford Raffles in Singapore.
• Wyatt, Matthew Cotes
  English sculptor active in the nineteenth century.
• Wyon, Edward William
  English sculptor in the nineteenth century.