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Biographies A-Z
- Waddel, Moses
- Waddell, Charles Edward
- Waddell, Hugh
- Waddell, Hugh
- Waddell, James Iredell
- Wade, Thomas
- Wagstaff, Henry McGilbert
- Wait, Samuel
- Walden, Islay
- Wales, Charles: Always a Little Music
- Walker, Carleton
- Walker, David
- Walker, Felix
- Walker, Henderson
- Walker, Henderson
- Walker, Hugh
- Walker, John
- Walker, John (Jack)
- Walker, Mamie Dowd
- Walker, Nathan Wilson
- Walker, Platt Dickinson
- Walkup, Samuel Hoey
- Wall, Zeno, Sr.
- Wallace, Lillian Frances Parker
- Wallis (Wallace, Wallice), Robert
- Walls, William Jacob
- Walser, Henry
- Walser, Richard Gaither
- Walser, Zeb Vance
- Walters, Sarah (Sadie) Wharton Green Jones
- Wanchese
- Wannamaker, William Hane
- Ward, Hallet Sydney
- Ward, Nancy (from Tar Heel Junior Historian)
- Warlick, Absalom
- Warlick, Wilson
- Warner, Yardley
- Warren, Edward
- Warren, Edward Jenner
- Warren, Julius (Jule) Benjamin
- Warren, Lindsay Carter
- Washburn, Benjamin Earl
- Washington, William Henry
- Waters, Vincent Stanislaus
- Watkins, Franklin Chennault
- Watson, Alfred Augustin
- Watson, Cyrus Barksdale
- Watson, Doc (from Tar Heel Junior Historian)
- Watson, John Fanning
- Watson, Josiah Ogden
- Watts, Alston Davidson
- Watts, George Washington
- Way, Joseph Howell
- Waynick, Capus Miller
- Weatherell, Mary E. (Mollie) Jordan Gorman
- Weatherford, Willis Duke
- Weatherspoon, Walter Herbert
- Weaver, Charles Clinton
- Weaver, David Stathem
- Weaver, James Harvey
- Weaver, John Van Alstyne
- Weaver, Richard Malcolm, Jr.
- Weaver, Rufus Washington
- Weaver, William Trotter
- Weaver, Zebulon
- Webb, Alfreda Wilhelmena Johnson
- Webb, Charles Aurelius
- Webb, Edwin Yates
- Webb, James
- Webb, James Edwin
- Webb, John Maurice
- Webb, Mena
- Webb, Sarah M. Norfleet
- Webb, Thomas
- Webb, William Alexander
- Webb, William Edwards
- Webb, William Robert (Sawney)
- Wechter, Nell Carolyn Wise
- Weddell, Alexander Watson
- Weeks, Stephen Beauregard
- Weil, Gertrude
- Weil, Gertrude
- Weil, Henry
- Weil, Herman
- Weil, Leslie
- Weil, Lionel
- Weil, Solomon
- Welch, Robert Henry Winborne, Jr.
- Weldon, Daniel
- Weldon, Samuel
- Welfare (Wohlfahrt), (Christian) Daniel
- Wellborn (Welborn), James
- Weller, Sidney
- Wellman, Manly Wade
- Wells, Bertram Whittier
- Wells, Ray: There's A Man For You
- Wells, Warner Lee
- Welsh, John Rushing, III
- Wenger, Arthur Daniel
- West, Robert
- Weston, James Augustus
- Wetmore, Thomas Cogdell
- Wharton, Robert Leslie
- Wheat, John Thomas
- Whedbee, Charles
- Wheeler, Alvin Sawyer
- Wheeler, John Hervey
- Wheeler, John Hill
- Wheeler, Junius Brutus
- Wheeler, Raymond Milner
- Whistler, Anna Mathilda McNeill
- Whitaker, John Clarke
- Whitaker, Spier
- Whitaker, Spier
- Whitaker, Spier
- Whitaker, William Asbury
- White, Arnold Howard
- White, George Henry
- White, George Henry
- White, Henry, Jr.
- White, Hugh Lawson
- White, James
- White, John
- White, John
- White, John (from Research Branch, NC OA&H)
- White, Mary: A One Teacher School
- White, Newman Ivey
- White, Philo
- White, Stephen Van Culen
- White, Thomas Jackson, Jr.
- White, William Edgar
- Whitehead, Richard Henry
- Whitehead, Zollicoffer Wiley
- Whitener, Basil Lee
- Whitener, Daniel Jay
- Whitfield, James Vivian
- Whitfield, Nathan Bryan
- Whitford, John Dalton
- Whitford, John Nathaniel
- Whiting, Seymour Webster
- Whiting, William Henry Chase
- Whitmell, Thomas
- Whitney, Rene: So Many Blessings
- Whitsett, William Thornton
- Whitson, Edward Maxwell
- Whittlesey, Sarah Johnson Cogswell
- Wicker, Margaret: The Glen Coal Mine Disaster
- Wicker, Rassie Everton
- Widgery, Alban Gregory
- Wiggins, Archibald Lee Manning
- Wiggins, Ella May
- Wilcox, Cadmus M.
- Wilcox, John Alexander
- Wilder, Gaston Hillary
- Wiley, Calvin Henderson
- Wiley, Mary Callum
- Wilhelm, James Hoyt
- Wilkerson, Annie Louise: A Life of My Own
- Wilkes, Jane Renwick Smedberg
- Wilkes, John (Jack)
- Wilkins, Raymond Harrell
- Wilkinson, Frank Smith
- Wilkinson, Henry
- Wilkinson, William
- Wilkison (or Wilkeson, Wilkinson), William
- Willcox (or Wilcox), John
- William McBrayer
- Williams, Alfred
- Williams, Archibald Hunter Arrington
- Williams, Benjamin
- Williams, Benjamin (from Research Branch, NC OA&H)
- Williams, Benjamin Brown
- Williams, Christopher (Kit) Harris
- Williams, Cratis Dearl
- Williams, David Marshall (Carbine)
- Williams, Henry
- Williams, Henry Horace
- Williams, Isham Rowland
- Williams, Jesse Lynch
- Williams, John
- Williams, John Taylor
- Williams, Joyce Justice: Farm Days
- Williams, Lewis
- Williams, Mabel: Standing Up To The Klan
- Williams, Marmaduke
- Williams, Mary Lyde Hicks
- Williams, Robert
- Williams, Robert
- Williams, Robert Franklin
- Williams, Samuel Clay
- Williams, Thomas Hill
- Williams, William
- Williams, William Sherley
- Williams, Willis: Life And Death At Devils Gut
- Williams-King, Alethea: The Widow's Mite
- Williamson, Hugh
- Williamson, James Edwards
- Williamson, James Monroe
- Williamson, James Nathaniel
- Williamson, James Nathaniel, Jr.
- Williamson, John Gustavus Adolphus
- Williamson, Robert Lynn
- Williamson, Sonny: Ain't Love Wonderful?
- Williamson, Thomas Farish
- Willoughby (or Willoby, Willowby), John
- Wills, George Stockton
- Wills, Henry
- Wills, William Henry
- Wilson, Alexander
- Wilson, Alexander Erwin
- Wilson, Edwin Mood
- Wilson, Franklin Inge (Frank.)
- Wilson, George Wood
- Wilson, Henry Hall, Jr.
- Wilson, Hugh
- Wilson, James Lewis
- Wilson, James William
- Wilson, John Makemie
- Wilson, Joseph
- Wilson, Lewis Feuilleteau
- Wilson, Louis Dicken
- Wilson, Louis Round
- Wilson, Nancy Grady: Making Something Good
- Wilson, Peter Mitchel
- Wilson, Ronald Bonar
- Wilson, Thomas D. (Big Tom)
- Wilson, Thomas James, III
- Wilson, Thomas James, Jr.
- Wimberly, Dred
- Wimble, James
- Winborne, John Wallace
- Winecoff, Thomas Edward
- Wingate, Washington Manly
- Winslow, Caleb
- Winslow, John Ancrum
- Winslow, John Randolph
- Winslow, Joseph
- Winslow, Milton
- Winslow, Nathan
- Winslow, Randolph
- Winslow, Warren
- Winslow, Warren (from Research Branch, NC OA&H)
- Winston, Ellen Black
- Winston, Francis Donnell
- Winston, George Tayloe
- Winston, Hollis Taylor
- Winston, James Horner
- Winston, John Reynolds
- Winston, Joseph
- Winston, Laura Annie Ballinger
- Winston, Patrick Henry
- Winston, Patrick Henry, Jr.
- Winston, Robert Watson
- Winters, Sellie Robert
- Withers, William Alphonso
- Witherspoon, August McIver
- Witherspoon, John Knox
- Wittkowsky, Samuel
- Wolfe, Julia Elizabeth Westall
- Wolfe, Thomas
- Wolfe, Thomas Clayton
- Wolfe, William Oliver
- Wolstenholme, Hugh
- Womack, Nathan Anthony
- Wood, Edward
- Wood, Edward Jenner
- Wood, Ernest Harvey, Jr.
- Wood, John Elliott
- Wood, Marquis Lafayette
- Wood, Thomas Fanning
- Woodall, Charles Lawrence, Jr.
- Woodard, Frederick Augustus
- Woodfin, John W.
- Woodfin, Nicholas Washington
- Woods, Freeman
- Woodward, Sara Griffith Stanley
- Woodward, Thomas
- Woody, John Warren
- Woody, Mary Chawner
- Woody, Oscar Scott
- Woody, Robert Hilliard
- Wootten, Mary Bayard Morgan
- Word, Thomas Jefferson
- Work, Monroe Nathan
- Worley, John
- Worth, Daniel
- Worth, David Gaston
- Worth, John Milton
- Worth, Jonathan
- Worth, Jonathan (from Research Branch, NC OA&H)
- Worthington, Samuel Wheeler
- Wray, John Dudley
- Wrenn, Manleff Jarrell
- Wrenn, Thomas F.
- Wright, Charles Calvin
- Wright, David Minton
- Wright, Gideon
- Wright, Marion Allen
- Wright, Orville
- Wright, Richard Harvey
- Wright, Robert Herring
- Wright, Wilbur
- Wyatt, Henry Lawson
- Wyche, Benjamin
- Wyche, Ira Thomas
- Wyche, Mary Lewis
- Wyche, Ray: A Rainy Day Hangout
- Wyche, Richard Thomas
- Wynn, Earl Raymond
- Wynne, William (Will) Andrew
- Wynns, Benjamin
- Wynns, Thomas