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| # | Thing | Description | Topic | For | Against | Net | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1851 |  | William Pitt the Younger | British statesman (1759–1806) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1852 |  | William Randolph Hearst | American newspaper publisher (1863–1951) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1853 |  | William Rowan Hamilton | Irish mathematician and physicist (1805–1865) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1854 |  | William Shakespeare | English playwright and poet (1564–1616) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1855 |  | William Shockley | American physicist (1910–1989) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1856 |  | William Wilberforce | English politician and abolitionist (1759–1833) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1857 |  | William Wordsworth | English Romantic poet (1770–1850) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1858 |  | William Wyler | German-born American film director (1902–1981) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1859 |  | William of Ockham | English Franciscan friar and theologian (c. 1287–1347) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1860 |  | William the Conqueror | King of England from 1066 to 1087 | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1861 |  | William the Silent | Dutch revolt leader (1533–1584) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1862 |  | Willy Brandt | Chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974 | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1863 |  | Wilma Rudolph | American athlete (1940–1994) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1864 |  | Winsor McCay | American cartoonist and animator (c.1866–1934) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1865 |  | Winston Churchill | British statesman and writer (1874–1965) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1866 |  | Wole Soyinka | Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1867 |  | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Composer and musician (1756–1791) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1868 |  | Wolfgang Pauli | Austrian physicist (1900–1958) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1869 |  | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong filmmaker (born 1958) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1870 |  | Woodrow Wilson | President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1871 |  | Woody Allen | American filmmaker, actor and writer (born 1935) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1872 |  | Woody Guthrie | American singer-songwriter (1912–1967) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1873 |  | Wright brothers | American aviation pioneers, inventors of the airplane | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1874 |  | Wu Zetian | Empress of China from 690 to 705 | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1875 |  | Władysław II Jagiełło | Grand Duke of Lithuania (1377–1434); King of Poland (1386–1434) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1876 |  | Xenophon | Greek philosopher, historian, and soldier (c.430–355/354 BC) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1877 |  | Xerxes I | King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire from 486 to 465 BC | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1878 |  | Xi Jinping | Leader of China since 2012 | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1879 |  | Xuanzang | Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar (602–664) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1880 |  | Xunzi (philosopher) | Chinese Confucian philosopher (c. 310 – after 238 BCE) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1881 |  | Yang Chen-Ning | Chinese-American physicist (1922–2025) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1882 |  | Yaroslav the Wise | Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 to 1054 | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1883 |  | Yasser Arafat | President of Palestine from 1989 to 2004 | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1884 |  | Yasujirō Ozu | Japanese filmmaker (1903–1963) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1885 |  | Yasunari Kawabata | Japanese novelist (1899–1972) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1886 |  | Yemelyan Pugachev | Russian Cossack rebel leader (1742–1775) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1887 |  | Yi Sun-sin | 16th-century Korean naval commander | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1888 |  | Yohannes IV | Emperor of Ethiopia from 1871 to 1889 | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1889 |  | Yongle Emperor | Emperor of China from 1402 to 1424 | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1890 |  | Yukio Mishima | Japanese author and coup attempt leader (1925–1970) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1891 |  | Yuri Gagarin | Soviet cosmonaut (1934–1968) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1892 |  | Yuzuru Hanyu | Japanese figure skater (born 1994) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1893 |  | Yves Saint Laurent (designer) | French fashion designer (1936–2008) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1894 |  | Zaha Hadid | Iraqi and British architect (1950–2016) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1895 |  | Zara Yaqob | Emperor of Ethiopia from 1434 to 1468 | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1896 |  | Zenobia | Empress of Palmyra in 272 | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1897 |  | Zhang Heng | Chinese scientist and statesman (78–139) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1898 |  | Zhang Qian | Imperial envoy to the world outside of China in the 2nd century BC | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1899 |  | Zheng He | Chinese admiral and diplomat (1371–1433/1435) | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1900 |  | Zhiyi | Chinese Buddhist master who founded the Tiantai school | People | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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