Complete alphabetical list of signatories

Total published signatories: 5479 verified.

Name Position and affiliation, or personal comment Date signed
Mrs. Sharon Gwen West

Teacher, English as a Second Language, Lover of Shakespearean Dramatic Plays & Poetry/English History, Poetry & Prose

09/09/07
Mr. Fred Westall

Communication Engineer

02/29/08
Mr. Ted Westerlund

08/22/23
Victoria Franck Wetsch

Research into Sir Francis Bacon as mastermind of a group of writers "Knights of the Helmet" after his muse, goddess Pallas Athena known as "shaker of the spear"

11/11/23
Carol P Whalen

04/02/07
Cathy L. Whalen

Box Office Manager at a mid-sized theatre, Rochester, NY.

10/02/07
Richard F Whalen, M.A.

Author: "Shakespeare: Who Was He?"

04/21/07
Dr. Michael James Whalley

The Shakespeare authorship question should be decided on the basis of evidence, not supposition.

12/24/13
Mr. Michael Brendan Wheatley

10/14/22
Mr. Benjamin Wheeler

04/22/09
Mrs. Hannah Victoria Whelan

09/13/16
Mr. Douglas J. Whipple

More than reasonable doubt.

06/24/16
Miss Averil Elizabeth White

BA (Hons) in English Literature, and studied the Bard at degree level.

08/27/11
Mr. David Anthony White, M.Sc.

Visiting Lecturer (Management) Birmingham City University.

08/29/22
David Evans White, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Natural Resource Economics, West Virgina University

04/27/09
Mr. David M. White

I believe heathly discussion of canonized subjects to be essential to opening minds and hearts to clear truth. Doubt is a light to shine on dark dogma.

05/27/14
Dee White

04/19/12
Jesse Eugene White, M.B.A.

I'm interested in the truth.

09/09/07
Dr. Kerry Thomas White, M.D.

Kerry T White, MD, FAANS(L), FACS

08/29/22
Mrs. Regina Marie White

Why would someone use Will Shakspere's name as a pseudonym?

09/09/07
Mr. Terrence J. White

Amateur Historian, Linguist, Genealogist, Writer, Poet, Artist, Musician

06/06/20
James E. Whitehead

Deeply troubled by the lack of evidence of Shakespeare as an author. The true author of so prominent a body of work deserves exploration.

12/27/18
Stephen Barry Whitehead, M.A.

Composer, President of Tristan Arts

07/30/07
Mr. Dominic Whiteland

09/02/22
Ms. Deanna Whitestone, J.D.

Formerly on the Advisory Board of the Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference at Concordia University, Portland, Oregon.

05/31/11
Mr. Jonathan P. M. Whiting

Son of the late John Robert Whiting, playwright (1917-1963) who also had doubts.

09/09/07
Mr. Peter L Whitlock, M.A.

04/22/07
Mr. John Whittaker

As a composer of music, I have set many of his songs. It is obvious to me that there is a problem with the authorship ascribed to the man from Stratford.

06/11/24
Dr. Don Whittemore

04/23/16
Hank Whittemore

Writer and actor; author of "The Monument: 'Shake-Speares Sonnets' by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford."

04/17/07
Karl P. Wiberg

I suppose there's no "smoking gun" (de Vere's Geneva Bible?); but the Everest of circumstantial evidence for Oxford is decisive -- freelance journalist.

11/16/10
James Wickwire

06/01/10
Mrs. Sharon Patricia Widell

09/10/07
Dr. Kenneth Karl Wieland

Pharmacuetical Director

03/17/19
Mrs. Claudia Wigger, Ph.D.

Being a physicist, I like facts and good arguments.

07/08/12
Dr. Othmar Werner Wigger

12/12/11
Mr. Patrick Wiggins, Ph.D.

Working poet, member of The Flarf Collective

10/26/12
Mr. Steinar Rivedal Wiik, M.A.

Former assistant arts editor Aftenposten, Oslo

04/10/16
Mr. Owain Arlan Wilcox

06/26/15
Mr. Stewart Wilcox

Life-long aficionado of Shakespearean Drama

01/10/19
Prof. Bryan H. Wildenthal, J.D.

Professor of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law (San Diego, CA)

01/02/12
Rebecca Wildenthal

05/28/14
Mr. David Wildman

Teacher and Historian

06/10/24
Christopher Waitt Wiley, M.D.

Presidential Scholar, 1970

04/25/16
Mrs. Maureen Wilkes

Producer and Director of the Holcombe Players

06/16/08
Mr. Neil V. Wilkes

Select a County

02/26/22
Ms. Angie Gillian Mary Wilkinson, M.A.

Cambridge graduate, life-long lover of live Shakespeare plays, "Hamlet" in particular, and fascinated by the remarkable familiarity of the author with Italy.

04/08/23
Prof. Edmund Wilkinson, M.A.

Professional Actor, AEA and SAG-AFTRA (US)

09/07/20
Dr. Heward Wilkinson, D. Psych.

Psychotherapist; Editor, International Journal of Psychotherapy, 1994-2004; Author, The Muse as Therapist, Karnac Press.

05/07/07
Jay Wilkinson

MA student, Brunel University

10/12/07

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