Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895), British diplomat and sinologist who co-developed the Wade-Giles transliteration system

weber (unit of magnetic flux, Wb)

Chavez (Spanish surname)

Lü Buwei (?291-235 BC), merchant and politician of the State of Qin, subsequent Qin Dynasty Chancellor, and alleged father of Ying Zheng, who became the first emperor Qin Shihuang.

Arthur Waley (1889-1966), pioneer British sinologist

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (1965-), Russian lawyer and politician, president of Russian Federation from 2008 to 2012

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician who formulated the theory of electromagnetism

Waco (city in Texas)

Gervais (name), specifically Paul Gervais (1816-1879), a French geologist and paleontologist

François Viète (1540-1603), French mathematician, father of modern algebraic notation

Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist and geophysicist, the originator of the theory of continental drift

Huelva, Spain

to study with great diligence; literally referring to the leather binding of a bamboo scroll breaking three times from frequent use

Białystok, city in Poland

Clarence Martin Wilbur (1908-1997), US Sinologist and Professor of Columbia University

Severino (name)

Kilauea, Hawaii, the world's most active volcano

Huesca (or Uesca), a city and province in Spain

Wade-Giles system (romanization of Chinese)

(bird species of China) Whistler's warbler (Phylloscopus whistleri)

Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741), Italian Baroque composer and violinist known for The Four Seasons

Skanda, the general or guardian Bodhisattva

Merriam-Webster (dictionary)

Hugo Chávez (1954–2013), former President of Venezuela

wearing the simple hemp clothing and leather belt of a commoner, often referring to a scholar living in poverty or without official rank

remdesivir (antiviral medication)

Mojave Desert, southwestern USA

aciclovir (also spelled acyclovir), an antiviral drug

the Shiwei tribes who inhabited an area to the northeast of Tang-dynasty China

(loanword) oseltamivir

George Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek)

Wei Yingwu (c. 737 – c. 792), Tang dynasty poet