• Ben Wright (actor) (1915–1989), a British film and radio actor
• Ben Wright (cricketer), English cricketer
• Ben Wright (footballer), an English football player, currently playing in the Norwegian club I.K. Start
• Ben Wright (war), an American participant in events leading up to the Modoc War of the 1870s

• Billy Wright (footballer), English footballer
• Billy Wright (terrorist), Northern Ireland paramilitary killer

C

• Charles Wright (cricketer), English cricketer
• Charles Wright (poet) (born 1935), American poet
• Charles Wright (wrestler) (born 1961), American performance wrestler
• Charles Wright (botanist) (1811-1885)

• Craig Wright (cricketer), a Scottish cricketer
• Craig Wright (playwright), American playwright and Six Feet Under producer
• J. Craig Wright, American judge

D

• David Wright (baseball player), an American baseball player
• David Wright (British musician), composer and producer, co-founder of AD Music
• David Wright (footballer), a British footballer
• David Wright (politician), a British politician

E

• Edward Wright (mathematician) (1561-1615), English mathematician and cartographer, first to explain the mathematics of the Mercator projection.
• Gordon Wright (footballer), (1884-1947) an English footballer, also known as Edward Gordon Dundas Wright
• Edward L. Wright, an American astrophysicist and cosmologist

• Eric Wright, the rapper Eazy-E
• Eric Wright (footballer), football player in the NFL
• Eric Wright (writer), Canadian writer of murder mystery novels
• Eric Lloyd Wright, architect

F

G

• George Wright (sportsman), a 19th-century baseball player and manager, also active in golf and tennis
• George Wright (baseball outfielder) (born 1958), mentioned at Texas Rangers all-time roster
• George Wright (general), a U.S. general
• George Wright (governor), a Canadian politician on the list of Lieutenant Governors of Prince Edward Island
• George Wright (lawyer), a former Solicitor General for Ireland
• George Wright (organist), a 20th-century U.S. organist
• George F. Wright, a Mayor of Honolulu
• George Frederick Wright, 1838–1921, American geologist and professor of the harmony of science and religion
• George G. Wright, a U.S. Senator from Iowa

• Gregory Wright (astrophysicist)
• Gregory Wright (comics), an American comic book writer

H

• Herbert Wright (politician), a Canadian politician
• Herbert Wright (producer), a science fiction television producer and writer

I

J

• Jay Wright (coach) (born 1961), men's head basketball coach of Villanova University
• Jay Wright (poet) (born 1935), American poet, winner of the 2005 Bollingen Prize

• Jeremy Wright (blogger), a Canadian blogger
• Jeremy Wright (politician), a British politician

• John Wright (cricketer) (born 1954), member of the New Zealand cricket team, coach of the Indian cricket team
• John Wright (inventor), an inventor of electroplating (method patented, 1840)
• John Wright (politician), New Zealand MP, 1996–2002
• John Buckland Wright, New Zealand illustrator
• John Charles Wright (1861–1933) Anglican archbishop of Sydney, Australia
• John C. Wright (born 1961), science fiction and fantasy writer
• John Farnsworth Wright (1929–2001), British economist
• John Joseph Wright (1909–1979), Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• John Kirtland Wright (1891–1969), American geographer
• John Lloyd Wright, architect and toy designer, son of Frank Lloyd Wright
• John Vines Wright (1828–1908), member of U.S. and Confederate Congresses, and a state supreme court justice

• Joseph A. Wright (1810–1867), American politician, Governor of Indiana, 1849–1857
• Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797), painter
• Joseph Wright (art director), Academy Award for Best Art Direction 1942 & 1962
• Joseph Wright (coach builder), 19th century English railway rolling stock builder for Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
• Joseph Wright (linguist) (1855–1930), comparative philologist, dialectologist, author of grammar books for the Germanic languages
• Joseph Wright (rower), Toronto Argonauts, rowing at the 1904 Summer Olympics
• Joseph Robert Wright, Jr., American businessman

K

• Keith Wright (American football), American football player
• Keith Wright (footballer), Scottish footballer
• Keith Wright (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player

L

M

• Margaret Wright, British Green Party politician

• Mark Wright (footballer born 1963), football player and manager
• Mark Wright (rugby league footballer), former Australian rugby league player
• Mark Wright (writer), science fiction writer

• Michael Wright (actor), American film and television actor
• Michael Wright (Australian politician), Australian Labor Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly
• Michael Wright (cyclist), English former professional road bicycle racer from 1962 to 1976
• Michael Wright (rapper), an old-school rapper known as Wonder Mike

N

O

P

Q

R

• Richard Wright (author), African-American author
• Richard Wright (footballer), England football goalkeeper
• Richard Wright (musician) (Rick), pianist and keyboard player of Pink Floyd
• Richard Wright (politician), American politician, listed at North Carolina General Assembly election, 2004
• Richard B. Wright, Canadian author

• Robert Wright (historian), British Royal Air Force historian and biographer of Hugh Dowding
• Robert Wright (journalist), journalist and author of books popularizing sociobiology and game theory
• Robert Wright (judge), Lord Chief Justice of England from 1687 to 1688
• Robert Wright (politician), (1752–1826), American politician, early 19th century governor and congressman from Maryland
• Robert Wright (writer) (1914–2005), American writer of musical theatre
• Robert Wright, Jr., FBI agent and critic of FBI counterterrorism
• Robert Charles Wright (born 1943), American businessman
• Robert K. Wright, Jr. (born 1946), American historian

S

T

• Thomas Wright (1810–1877), British antiquarian and writer
• Thomas Wright (astronomer) (1711–1786), English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer
• Thomas Wright (geologist) (1809–1884), Scottish surgeon and palaeontologist
• Thomas Edward Wright, a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives
• Thomas J. Wright, film director

• Tom Wright (actor), a film actor
• Tom Wright (baseball player)
• Tom Wright (CFL), commissioner of the Canadian Football League
• Tom Wright (rugby league footballer)
• Tom Wright (theologian)

• Tommy Wright (footballer born 1944), footballer for Everton and England
• Tommy Wright (footballer born 1984), English footballer who played for Leicester City in the early 2000s
• Tommy Wright (footballer born 1966), Scottish footballer who played for Leicester City in the late 1980s and early 1990s
• Tommy Wright (footballer born 1963), Northern Irish footballer

• Tony Wright (Staffordshire politician), British politician, MP for Cannock Chase

V

W

• Dan DeQuille, American author author, newspaperman, and humorist, also known as William Wright
• William Wright (author), author of Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals
• William Wright (Orientalist) (1830–1889)
• William Wright (poet), (1782–?) Scottish poet
• William Wright (politician) (1794–1866), mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and US Senator
• William Wright (privateer), English privateer in French service and later buccaneer who raided Spanish towns in the late 1600s
• William Aldis Wright, English writer
• William Barton Wright, British railway engineer
• William Hammond Wright (1871–1959), American astronomer
• William Henry Wright (1876–1951), Canadian industrialist and publisher

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