People

Tensie Whelan

Executive director of the Rainforest Alliance Born May 20, 1960, in New York, NY; daughter of Sidney S. (an attorney) and Carol (a systems consultant; maiden name, Storke) Whelan;...

Fred L. Whipple

Born November 5, 1906, in Red Oak, IA; died August 30, 2004, in Cambridge, MA. Astrophysicist. Fred L. Whipple "was one of those rare individuals who affected our lives in many ways," Char...

James Whistler

Born: July 10, 1834 Lowell, Massachusetts Died: July 17, 1903 London, England American painter and etcher The America...

Whitbread

Leisure

Whitbread plc is a multinational British hotel and restaurant company headquartered in Houghton Regis, England. The business was founded as a brewery in 1742, and had become the largest brew

E. B. White

Born: July 11, 1899 Mount Vernon, New York Died: October 1, 1985 North Brooklin, Maine American essayist and author E...

Barry White

Born Barry Eugene Carter, September 12, 1944, in Galveston, TX; died of kidney failure, July 4, 2003, in Los Angeles, CA. Singer. Soul seducer Barry White put out a string of hits during t...

Opal Whiteley

The life of American author Opal Whiteley (1897–1992) was a tragic one, shrouded in mystery. About the reputation of her best-known work, however, there is no mystery at all: her n...

Susan Whiting

Chief Executive Officer of Nielsen Media Research Born August 1, 1956, in Chicago, IL; daughter of Lawrence H. Whiting Jr. (an aviation entrepreneur); married Stephen J. Brogan (a...

Meg Whitman

1957 • Cold Spring Harbor, New York Chief executive officer Meg Whitman is the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of eBay, Inc., the online auction site th...

Narcissa Whitman

In 1836, American missionary Narcissa Whitman (1808–1847) became the first woman of European heritage to cross the Rocky Mountains into the western United States. She and her husba...

Walt Whitman

Born: May 31, 1819 West Hills, New York Died: March 26, 1892 Camden, New Jersey American poet Walt Whitman is general...

Patrick Whitney

Director of the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology Born Patrick Foster Whitney, c. 1952; married Cheryl Kent (an author). Education: C...

Wholebake

Industry and Production

Wholebake produces and supplies energy bars for vegetarians and the company offers its products through health and food shops, as well as online. It is situated in the United Kingdom and the company w

Benjamin Lee Whorf

American linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) is remembered for a group of speculative ideas about thought and language that remain controversial but have exerted strong influen...

Michelle Wie

October 11, 1989 • Honolulu, Hawaii Golfer Michelle Wie is a phenomenal, powerful golfer who regularly hits the ball nearly three hundred yards off the tee, about f...

Elie Wiesel

Born: September 30, 1928 Sighet, Romania Romanian-born American writer and teacher Romanian-born American writer, speaker, and teacher Elie Wiesel is a...

Simon Wiesenthal

Born Szymon Wiesenthal, December 31, 1908, in Buczacz, Galicia (now part of Ukraine); died of kidney disease, September 20, 2005, in Vienna, Austria. Nazi war crimes investigator and human...

Oscar Wilde

Born: October 16, 1854 Dublin, Ireland Died: November 30, 1900 Paris, France Irish-born English author, dramatist, and poet ...

Thornton Wilder

Born: April 17, 1897 Madison, Wisconsin Died: December 7, 1975 Hamden, Connecticut American playwright and novelist N...

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Born: February 7, 1867 Pepin, Wisconsin Died: February 10, 1957 Mansfield, Missouri American writer American author L...