Lila Meade Valentine Valmiki Nydia Velázquez Ann M. Veneman Jesse Ventura Henry Wade An Wang Nancy Ward Maxine Waters (Alyce) Faye Wattleton J. C. Watts John and Eliza Webb Emmeline Blanche Woodward Wells Ida B. Wells-Barnett Cornel West Christine Todd Whitman Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman George Washington Williams Jody Williams Peter Williams, Sr. Sarah Winnemucca Granville T. Woods Carter G. Woodson C. Vann Woodward, Chien-Shiung Wu David Wu Lois-Ann Yamanaka John Yau Vincente Martinez Ybor Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin Laurence Yep Roger Arliner Young Whitney M. Young, Jr. David Levy Yulee Lorenzo de Zavala Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri Zhang Qian Abu Zubaydah