page_title: List of people from Wolverhampton
section_title: W
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Wolverhampton / W
caption_attribution_description: Statue of Billy Wright outside Molineux, Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club.
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people born in or associated with the city of Wolverhampton in England.
context_section_description: George Wallis, FSA (1811–1891) – artist, museum curator and art educator, first Keeper of Fine Art Collection at South Kensington Museum (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
  David Watkins – designer of London 2012 Olympics medal; special effects maker for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey
  Stuart Watkiss (born 1966) – footballer (defender) and football manager
  Mickey Wernick  (born 1944) – professional poker player
  Sir Charles Wheeler (1892–1974) – sculptor, former president of the Royal Academy
  Fred White (1916–2007) – footballer, goalkeeper
  Willard Wigan (born 1957) – sculptor, creates microscopic sculptures
  Jonathan Wild (1683–1725) – self-penned Chief Thieftaker General of Great Britain and Ireland
  Harry Wilding (1894–1958) – footballer, centre half; played for the Grenadier Guards, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Bristol Rovers
  Ashley Williams (born 1984) – footballer, defender
  Bert Williams (1920–2014) – spent his career, 1945–1959, playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers FC; also played for England 24 times.
  Charles Williams (1887–1971) – track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in London
  Gary Williams (born 1960) – footballer, won European cup with Aston Villa; played for Leeds, Bradford and Watford
  John Williams (born 1951) – A&R executive, record producer, photographer, manager, recording artist, songwriter
  Paul Willis – social scientist, major contemporary figure in sociology and cultural studies
  'Mad Marty' Wilson (born 1957?) – professional poker player; biggest win came in 1998, with $171,000
  Tony Wilson (born 1964) – boxer, British light heavyweight champion, represented Great Britain in the 1984 Summer Olympics
  Pete Winkelman (born 1957) – chairman of football club Milton Keynes Dons, property developer and former CBS Records executive
  Sam Winnall (born 1991) – footballer, striker, joined Wolves Academy, plays for Sheffield Wednesday
  William Wood (1671–1730) – lived at The Deanery, a large house in Wolverhampton; was given a contract as a mintmaster to strike an issue of Irish coinage, 1722–1724; this coinage was extremely unpopular as a result of the publication of Jonathan Swift's Drapier's Letters and was recalled
  Billy Wright (1924–1994) – captain of England and Wolverhampton Wanderers; for a long time, the most capped English football player
  Billy Wright (1960–1997) – Wolverhampton-born prominent Ulster loyalist
  David Wright (born 1944) – UK Ambassador to Japan
  Lady Wulfrun (c. 935–1005) – Anglo-Saxon noble woman and landowner, established a landed estate at Wolverhampton in 985.
caption: Statue of Billy Wright outside Molineux Stadium
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