ABSTRAer. In Ihis note we discusa sorne results oit numerical radius altaining operators paralleling carlier results Oit norm attaining operatora. Eorarbitrary Banach spacesXand Y, the set of (bounded, linear) operatora from Xto Ywhose adjoints altain [heir norms is norm-dense ita [hespaee of ah operators. This theorem. due toW. Zizíer, improves an earlier result by J. Lindenstrauss on the dens...