People born in MN (W-Z)

• Wallace, DeWitt (St. Paul) publisher - co-founded Reader's Digest with his wife Lila in 1922
  
• Weisman, Alan (Minneapolis) author, professor, journalist – his most popular work is The World Without Us about a post-human scenario.
  
• Westerberg, Paul (Minneapolis) musician - lead singer of The Replacements; went solo in 1993
• Widmark, Richard (Sunrise) actor - screend debut as a giggling, homicidal gangster in Kiss of Death (1947)
• Winfield, Dave (St. Paul) athlete - one of seven players in baseball history to reach both 3,000 hits and 400 home runs
• Young, Gig (St. Cloud) actor - won an Oscar in 1969 for They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
• Zahn, Steve (Marshall) actor - Reality Bites