Category: Biography
Kurt Weill Kurt Weill, (1900-50). German composer, best known for the satirical operas he wrote in collaboration with Bertolt Brecht. Weill worked as a conductor and studied under the …
Josiah Wedgwood Josiah Wedgwood, (1730-95). British pottery designer and manufacturer. He set up his own business in his native town of Burslem, Staffordshire, in 1759. The characteristic Wedgwood stonewares, …
Beatrice Webb Webb, Sidney, Baron Passfield (1859-1947) and his wife Beatrice (1858-1943). British social reformers and historians. Sidney Webb was a founder member of the socialist Fabian Society, while …
John Wayne John Wayne, stage name of Marion Michael Morrison (1907-79). US film actor. Nicknamed The Duke’, he was the slow-speaking tough hero of scores of action films and …
Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Waugh, (1903-66). British novelist and satirist. After graduating from Oxford, he worked as a teacher; his first published work was a biography of the poet Rossetti …
Jean-Antoine Watteau Jean-Antoine Watteau, (1684-1721). French rococo painter. He settled in Paris in 1702 and developed a style strongly influenced by Rubens and by Venetian painting. His most characteristic …
James Watt James Watt, (1736-1819). Scottish engineer, a major contributor to the Industrial Revolution. He became a mathematical instrument maker at Glasgow University in 1757 and while repairing a …
James Watson James Watson, (Dewey) (1928- ). US biochemist who helped to determine the structure of DNA. A child prodigy, Watson graduated from the University of Chicago at the …
