People
Brief biographical sketches for selected persons mentioned in Joseph Smith’s papers. Names listed in this directory include church leaders and members, Smith family members, people Joseph Smith encountered in his travels, parties involved in legal and business matters, and other acquaintances. Each entry also includes links to all documents that mention the person. Some entries have document links but no biographical sketch; these are included to assist researchers interested in individuals who are less prevalent in Joseph Smith’s documentary record.

- Wait, Truman
- Wakefield, John R.
- Wakefield, Joseph H.
- Walker, Cyrus
- Walker, George
- Walker, Lorin
- Walker, Lucy
- Walker, Lydia
- Walker, Oliver
- Walker, Thomas Armstrong
- Wallace, George B.
- Ward, Emily M. Coburn
- Ward, Thomas
- Wardrop, John
- Ware, William G.
- Warren, Calvin Averill
- Warrington, Benjamin
- Wasson, Lorenzo D.
- Waterman, John O.
- Waterman, Sally
- Watt, George Darling
- Weaver, Russell
- Webb, Catherine Noramore
- Webb, Edwin Densmore
- Webb, Eliza Ann McWethy (McWithey)
- Webb, John
- Weber, John B.
- Webster, Daniel
- Weeks, William
- Weld, John Fuller
- Wells, Daniel Hanmer
- Wells, Eliza Rebecca Robison
- Welton, Micah Baldwin
- Welton, Michael Baldwin
- Wentworth, John
- West, Nathan Ayers
- Weston, Samuel
- Wheat, Almeron
- Wheelock, Cyrus H.
- Whitaker, James
- White, David Nye
- White, Hugh
- White, Sybella Lehman McMinn
- White, William
- Whitehead, James
- Whitlock, Harvey Gilman
- Whitmer, Anna Schott
- Whitmer, Catherine
- Whitmer, Christian
- Whitmer, David
- Whitmer, Elizabeth Ann
- Whitmer, Elizabeth Ann Schott
- Whitmer, Jacob
- Whitmer, John
- Whitmer, Julia Ann Jolly
- Whitmer, Mary Musselman
- Whitmer, Peter, Jr.
- Whitmer, Peter, Sr.
- Whitney, Caroline
- Whitney, Elizabeth Ann Smith
- Whitney, Helen Mar Kimball
- Whitney, Newel Kimball
- Whitney, Samuel Franklin
- Whitney, Sarah Ann
- Wight, Lyman
- Wightman, William A.
- Wilber, Benjamin S.
- Wilcox, Benjamin
- Wilcox, Catherine Noramore
- Wilder, Eli Trumbul
- Wilder, Joseph
- Wilkinson, Stephen
- Wilkinson, Susan Hough Conrad
- Williams, Abiathar B.
- Williams, Archibald
- Williams, Frederick Granger
- Williams, John A.
- Williams, John R.
- Williams, John Wilson
- Williams, Joseph Swain
- Williams, Levi
- Williams, Rebecca Swain
- Williams, Samuel
- Williams, Wesley
- Williams, William Wheeler, Jr.
- Willis, Malissa (Melissa) Lott
- Willson, Hiram V.
- Wilson, Harmon Theodore
- Wilson, John
- Wilson, Lewis Dunbar
- Wilson, Moses Greer
- Wilson, Robert
- Winchester, Benjamin
- Winchester, Nancy Maria
- Winchester, Stephen
- Winters, Hiram
- Withers, William M.
- Wood, Daniel
- Wood, William Thomas
- Woodruff, Wilford
- Woods, James
- Woods, Sashel
- Woodstock, Willard
- Woodward, Alfred
- Woodworth, Flora Ann
- Woodworth, Lucien
- Woolley, Edwin
- Woolsey, Lovina Patterson
- Workman, John
- Works, Angelina (Angeline) Eliza
- Wright, Justus