William the Conqueror (1028 – 9 September 1087), also known as William I of England, was a Norman statesman and warlord. He was the first Norman King of...

William III and II (4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702) was King of England and Ireland from 13 February 1689 (as William III) and he was king of Scotland...

William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English dramatist, poet and theatre actor. He wrote 40 known plays (with about half of them...

William, Prince of Wales, KG, KT, GCB, PC, ADC (William Arthur Philip Louis; 21 June 1982) is a member of the British royal family and the heir apparent...

William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. Before the American Civil...

Col. William Brewster III (1566 – April 10, 1644) was an English official who was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a religious leader both...

William Pelham "Bill" Barr (born May 23, 1950) is an American attorney. He was the 85th Attorney General of the United States from February 14, 2019 to...

The College of William & Mary in Virginia (also known as The College of William & Mary, The College, William & Mary, or W&M) is a public university in...

Sir William Ramsay KCB FRS FRSE (/ˈræmzi/; 2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist. Ramsay discovered the noble gases. He also helped discover...

William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913. He was the only president who...

William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British Victorian politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to William Henry Bragg. Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE PRS (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was a British physicist, chemist...

William II of England (c. 1 September 1056–2 August 1100) was King of England from 1087 to his death. He was the second son of William the Conqueror and...

William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801–October 10, 1872) was an American politician. He was the fourteenth Governor of New York, and later a United States...

William I Longsword (c. 900 – 17 December 942) was the second "Duke of Normandy". William added to his father's territories. He also began to expand Norman...

William Parry Murphy (February 6, 1892 – October 9, 1987) was an American doctor. He won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with George...

William White (25 January 1586/7  – 21 February 1621) was a passenger on the Mayflower. Accompanied by his wife Susanna, son Resolved and two servants...

William Swainson, Fellow of the Linnean Society and Fellow of the Royal Society (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist...

William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1764 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from 26 June 1830...

William Standish Knowles (June 1, 1917 – June 13, 2012) was an American chemist. He was born in Taunton, Massachusetts. Knowles was one of the recipients...

General William Howe, William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (1729-1814) was a British fighter. He fought in the Seven Years' War, American Revolutionary War...

William Joseph Casey (March 13, 1913 – May 6, 1987) was an American politician. He was the Director of Central Intelligence from 1981 to 1987 under Ronald...

William Clarke Quantrill (July 31, 1837 – June 6, 1865), was a Confederate leader during the American Civil War. Quantrill lead a Confederate unit along...

William Hedgcock Webster (March 6, 1924 – August 8, 2025) was an American attorney, and jurist. He was the Chairman Emeritus of the Homeland Security...

William James Perry (born October 11, 1927) is an American mathematician, engineer, and businessman. He was the United States Secretary of Defense from...

William Joseph Brennan Jr. (April 25, 1906 – July 24, 1997) was a Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1956 to 1990. He was born in Newark...

William Joseph Burns (born April 11, 1956) is an American politician. Burns was the 8th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from March 19, 2021...

William Clark (August 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838) was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. A native of Virginia, he...

William Fife Knowland (June 26, 1908 – February 23, 1974) was an American politician, newspaper publisher, and Republican Party leader. He was a U.S....

William Butler Ogden (June 15, 1805 – August 3, 1877) was the first Mayor of Chicago. Ogden was born on June 15, 1805 in Walton, New York. He was married...

William John "Bill" Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American politician. He was the third United States Secretary of Education. He was in Ronald Reagan's...

William Seward Burroughs (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer. He was a contemporary and friend of writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack...

William Harvey was an English medical doctor. He was born in Folkestone, Kent, England on 1 April 1578. He was the first to explain how blood was moved...

William Richard Tolbert Jr. (13 May 1913 – 12 April 1980) was the 20th President of Liberia from 1971 until he was assassinated in 1980 Liberian coup...

William Lewis Salyers (born August 16, 1964) is an American actor and voice actor. He is known as the voice of Rigby on Regular Show and the voice of...

Calvin William Verity, Jr. (January 26, 1917 – January 3, 2007) was an American administrator and steel industrialist. He served as the Secretary of Commerce...

William Edward "Bill" Phipps (February 4, 1922 – June 1, 2018) was a retired American actor and producer. He was best known for his roles in dozens of...

William Spencer Vickrey (21 June 1914 – 11 October 1996) was a Canadian-American professor of economics. In 1996, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic...

William Blake (28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827) was an English poet, visionary, painter, and printmaker. He was born and died in London. During his...

William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. He was the manager of a research group at...

William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was an American politician who served as the 25th president of the United States from 1897 until...

William Wilfred Campbell (1 June 1860 – 1 January 1918) was a Canadian poet. He is one of the Confederation Poets, a group of poets born during Canada's...

William Shatner OC (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, author, director, producer, screenwriter, singer and space tourist. He became famous for...

William Samuel Paley (September 28, 1901 – October 26, 1990) was an American businessman, philanthropist, broadcaster and founder of CBS. He was a Chicago-born...

William Forsythe (born June 7, 1955) is an American actor. Forsythe played Al Capone in the television series The Untouchables. Forsythe has also played...

William Patrick Clark, Jr. (October 23, 1931 – August 10, 2013) was an American rancher, judge, and public servant. He served under President Ronald Reagan...

William "Bill" G. Kaelin Jr. (born November 23, 1957) is an American professor of medicine at Harvard University and the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute...

William Holden (April 17, 1918 - November 12, 1981) was an American actor. He was born in O'Fallon, Illinois on April 17 1918 and moved to South Pasadena...

William Charles Wentworth (13 August 1790 – 20 March 1872) was an Australian poet, explorer, journalist and politician. He was one of the leading figures...

Sir William McMahon (23 February 1908 – 31 March 1988) was the 20th Prime Minister of Australia. He was elected to the Australian parliament in 1949,...

William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. (July 7, 1920 – March 31, 2017) was an American attorney and politician. Coleman was the fourth United States Secretary...

William Alfred Fowler (August 9, 1911 – March 14, 1995) was an American nuclear physicist. With Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, he won the 1983 Nobel Prize...

William Cecil Campbell (born 28 June 1930) is an Irish-born American biologist and parasitologist. He is known for his work in discovering a novel therapy...

William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1, 1924 – September 3, 2005) was an American lawyer, jurist, and a political figure. He was the 16th Chief Justice of...

William Griffiths may mean: William Griffiths (VC) (1841–1879), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross William Griffiths (field hockey), participant in...

William Frank Buckley, Jr. (November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine...

after William Floyd, they include: the William Floyd School District in present-day Brookhaven Town, which includes William Floyd Elementary, William Floyd...

William Jack Baumol (February 26, 1922 – May 4, 2017) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at New York University. He was also a...

William McChord Hurt (March 20, 1950 – March 13, 2022) was an American actor. He won an Academy Award in 1985 for his work in the movie movie Kiss of...

Darren Kenneth Matthews (born 10 May 1968), better known by his ring name William Regal and formerly Steven Regal, is an English retired professional wrestler...

William Pitt the Younger (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was Chancellor...

William David Daniels or Will Daniels (born March 31, 1927) is an American movie, television, stage, and voice actor. He is known for his role as Mr....

William Klein (April 19, 1926 – September 10, 2022) was an American-born French photographer and filmmaker. His works were mainly about photojournalism...

William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English wallpaper, furniture and fabric designer, artist, writer, and socialist. He was born in...

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (born November 30, 1825, died 5 August 1905) was a French painter. Bouguereau was a traditionalist of academic art and his...

William Joseph Schallert (July 6, 1922 – May 8, 2016) was an American actor. He played the father on The Patty Duke Show. He is also known for his guest-star...

William Clark Styron Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist. He wrote five novels and other books of essays and...

William I of Orange-Nassau (24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584) was an important leader of the Dutch rebellion against the Spanish in the Eighty Years' War...

William Baker Rock (August 5, 1872 - June 27, 1922) was a vaudeville comedian and dancer. He was a partner with Maude Fulton in the vaudeville act of...

William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the 9th president of the United States. His nickname was "Old Tippecanoe," and he was a...

William Bradley can be: William Bradley Pitt (born 1963), American actor and film producer more commonly known as Brad Pitt Bill Bradley (born 1943),...

William Kistler "Bill" Coors (August 11, 1916 – October 13, 2018) was an American businessman. He was born in Golden, Colorado. He was the grandson of...

William David Friedkin (August 29, 1935 – August 7, 2023) was an American movie director, producer and screenwriter. He was best known for directing The...

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, FRS, FRSE (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) was a Scots-Irish mathematical physicist and engineer. He...

William Woodgate (26 August 1638 - 18 January 1717) was High Sheriff of Kent in 1700, he was the son of John Woodgate. He married Mary Sillcock of Benenden...

William James (1842–1910) was an American psychologist and philosopher. He was an original thinker in physiology, psychology and philosophy. His major...

William Le Baron Jenney (September 25, 1832—June 14, 1907) was an American architect and engineer. He is known for building the first skyscraper in 1884...

William Steig was an American cartoonist and illustrator. He was born in Brooklyn in 1907 to Jewish parents from Poland. In the 1960s, Steig started writing...

William Lloyd Garrison (December 13, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was an American abolitionist, meaning he wanted to end slavery in the United States. He wrote...

written by or about William Wilberforce at Wikisource Media related to William Wilberforce at Wikimedia Commons BBC historic figures: William Wilberforce This...

William Forsyth Sharpe (born June 16, 1934) is an American economist. He is a professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He won the...

William Benjamin Carpenter MD MRCS CB FRS (29 October 1813 – 19 November 1885) was an English physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist. He was...

William Sebastian Cohen (born August 28, 1940) is an American politician and author from the U.S. state of Maine. He is a member of the Republican Party...

William Christie Gosse (1842–12 August 1881) was an explorer. He was born in Hertfordshire, England. He moved to Adelaide, Australia with his father in...

In this Japanese name, the family name is Nakamura. William Kenzo Nakamura (January 21, 1922-July 4, 1944) was a United States Army soldier. He received...

William Richardson Timmons IV (born April 30, 1984) is an American politician, lawyer, and Air Force veteran. He has been a member of the U.S. House of...

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was an American poet and a medical doctor. His mother was born in Puerto Rico. His father was raised in the Dominican...

Sir William Lawrence Bragg CH OBE MC FRS (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer who won the...

Sir William Wallace (c. 1270 – 23 August 1305) was a Scottish knight who fought the King of England (Edward I) in the Middle Ages. He was born in c. 1270...

Alfred William Frankland MBE (19 March 1912 – 2 April 2020) was a British allergist. His works include keeping track of the pollen count as a piece of...

William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. (December 9, 1919– April 14, 2011) was a Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist. He worked in nuclear magnetic...

William George Aston (9 April 1841 – 22 November 1911) was a British diplomat, author and scholar-expert in the language and history of Japan and Korea...

William Dawbney Nordhaus (born May 31, 1941) is an American economist of Jewish descent and professor at Yale University. He was born in Albuquerque,...

William Horatio Powell (July 29, 1892 – March 5, 1984) was an American actor. He was known for his role in Thin Man (1934). He was nominated an Academy...

William Faulkner (born William Cuthbert Falkner), (September 25, 1897–July 6, 1962) was an American author. One of the most influential writers of the...

William Harris Crawford (February 24, 1772 – September 15, 1834) was an important American politician and judge during the early 19th century. He was...

William Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania...

William Gallas (born 17 August 1977) is a French football player. He plays for Arsenal in England. He plays as a Defender. Before joining Arsenal, Gallas...

William Pierce Rogers (June 23, 1913 – January 2, 2001) was an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer. He was United States Attorney General under...

William Thomson Newnham (February 7, 1923 – August 23, 2014) was a Canadian educator. He was the first president of Seneca College serving from 1966 through...

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an important poet of the Romantic Age in English literature. Many people think that The Prelude...

William Franklin (c.1730 – November 1813) was an American soldier, attorney, and colonial administrator, the acknowledged illegitimate son of Benjamin...

William Silva de Carvalho ComM (born 7 April 1992) is a Portuguese football player. He plays as a defensive midfielder for Real Betis and the Portugal...

William Herbert Foege M.D., M.P.H. (/ˈfeɪɡi/; March 12, 1936 – January 24, 2026) was an American epidemiologist. He was seen as the person responsible...

William the Good (1286 – 7 June 1337) was count of Hainaut (as William I), Avesnes, Holland (as William III), and Zeeland (as William II) from 1304 to...

William Joseph Seymour （born on May 2 , 1870 died on September 28, 1922) was an African American holiness preacher who initiated the Azusa Street Revival...

William Jefferson Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond (pronounced HAIG; born 26 March 1961) is a British politician. He was Foreign Secretary and First Secretary...

William Victor Roth Jr. (July 22, 1921 – December 13, 2003) was an American lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Republican Party. From 1967...

William Ellery (December 22, 1727–February 15, 1820), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as one of two representatives from...

IV and Margaret II of Hainaut. He was also known as William V, Count of Holland, as William III, Count of Hainaut and as William IV, Count of Zeeland....

William II (1307 – 26 September 1345) was Count of Hainaut from 1337 until his death. He was also Count of Holland (as William IV) and Count of Zeeland...

William Hardy McNeill (October 31, 1917 – July 8, 2016) was a Canadian-American world historian and author. He was known for his writings on Western civilization...

William Jackson "Jack" Edwards (September 20, 1928 – September 27, 2019) was an American politician. He was the former U.S. Republican politician, who...

William Grant Stratton (February 26, 1914 – March 2, 2001), known as "Billy the Kid", was the 32nd Governor of Illinois from 1953 to 1961, succeeding...

William Adelin (1103–1120), sometimes Atheling , was the titular Duke of Normandy and heir apparent to the crown of England. William, born in 1103, was...

William Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is a writer. He writes science fiction books. He is one of the most important people in the part of science fiction...

William Almon Wheeler (June 30, 1819 – June 4, 1887) was a U.S. representative from New York and the 19th vice president of the United States. This short...

William Lassell (18 June 1799 – 5 October 1880) was a British astronomer, born in Bolton, Lancashire, England. He died in Maidenhead in 1880. He is known...

William Tyndale (c. 1484–1536) was an English scholar. He is well known for his translation of the Bible into English and for his later prosecution and...

William III (30 April 1425 – 17 September 1482), called the Brave (in German Wilhelm der Tapfere), was landgrave of Thuringia (from 1445) and claimant...

William Tell was a folk hero from Switzerland. In the story, William Tell is a man who refused to bow down to pole that was set up by an army who had taken...

Francis William Aston (1 September 1877 – 20 November 1945) was a British chemist and physicist who invented the mass spectrometer. He won the 1922 Nobel...

William Cameron "Willie" McCool (September 23, 1961 – February 1, 2003) (Cmdr, USN) was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical...

Sir William Hall-Jones, KCMG (16 January 1851 – 19 June 1936) was the 16th Prime Minister of New Zealand from June 1906 until August 1906. He was the...

William Hall Macy (born March 13, 1950) is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American Actor. He was in the movie Fargo. He is also a teacher...

William French Smith II (August 26, 1917 – October 29, 1990) was an American lawyer. He was the 74th United States Attorney General serving from January...

The second inauguration of William McKinley as the 25th president of the United States happened on March 4, 1901. The inauguration was the beginning of...

born William FitzMaurice in Dublin in Ireland. Petty was known historically as The Earl of Shelburne. Mr William FitzMaurice (1737-1751) Mr William Petty...

William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG (December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950), also commonly known as Mackenzie King, was the dominant Canadian political...

William Jefferson Clinton (born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and attorney. He was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001...

Frederick William III (German: Friedrich Wilhelm III.) (3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840) was king of Prussia from 1797 to 1840. Frederick William was born...

William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860-July 26, 1925) was an American politician in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was from the...

inauguration of William Howard Taft as the 27th president of the United States happened on March 4, 1909. It was the start of the only term of William Howard Taft...

Sir William Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was an English writer. He was a novelist, poet, playwright, and teacher. He is famous for his novel...

William Michael “Bill” Daley (born August 9, 1948) is an American lawyer and former banker. He served as the White House Chief of Staff after Rahm Emanuel...

state William III of England, William III of Orange-Nassau, William II of Scotland, (1650–1702) William of Orange may also refer to: Saint William of Gellone...

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman, as the co-founder and former chairman of Microsoft. He is the thirteenth-richest...

William Doyle Ruckelshaus (July 24, 1932 – November 27, 2019) was an American attorney and government official. He worked during the Richard Nixon and...

William Wilson, or variants, may mean: Bill Wilson (activist) (born 1953), Washington activisjt Bill Wilson (Montana politician) (born 1961), Montana...

William Allen Egan (October 8, 1914 – May 6, 1984) was an American Democratic politician. He was the first and the fourth governor of the State of Alaska...

William Joseph Devane (born September 5, 1939) is an American movie, television and theater actor. He is best known for his roles as Greg Sumner on the...

William Edward "Will" Fichtner, Jr. (born November 27, 1956) is an American actor. He was known for his roles in Prison Break, Armageddon, Heat, The Perfect...

William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville PC (25 October 1759–12 January 1834), was a British Whig statesman and Prime Minister. Grenville was the...

William Francis Raborn, Jr., (June 8, 1905 – March 6, 1990) was the United States Director of Central Intelligence from April 28, 1965 to June 30, 1966...

common name for the first collection of William Shakespeare's plays. It was published in 1623. Its title is Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, &...

William Allen White (February 10, 1868 – January 29, 1944) was an American newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive movement...

Prince William County is a county in Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 482,204. "QuickFacts: Prince William County, Virginia". United...

William Saroyan (Armenian: Վիլյամ Սարոյան) (August 31, 1908 - May 18, 1981) was an American author who wrote many plays and short stories about growing...

William Forrest Winter (February 21, 1923 – December 18, 2020) was an American politician. He served as the 57th Governor of Mississippi from 1980 to...

William III of the Netherlands (Willem Alexander Paul Frederik Lodewijk, anglicised: William Alexander Paul Frederick Louis of Orange-Nassau; 19 February...

William Theodore Katt (born February 16, 1951) is an American actor and voice actor. He is best known for playing Ralph Hinkley in The Greatest American...

William Egan Colby (January 4, 1920 – April 27, 1996) was an American intelligence officer. He was Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from September...

William Eustis (June 21, 1753 – February 6, 1825) was an American soldier and diplomat. He sweved in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary...

William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948) is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1997, with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji...

William Calvin Oates (either November 30 or December 1, 1833 – September 9, 1910) was a Confederate colonel during the American Civil War. He became a...

William A. "Bill" Allain (February 14, 1928 – December 2, 2013) was an American politician. He held office as the 58th Governor of Mississippi as a Democrat...

The William M. Jennings Trophy is an award in the National Hockey League (NHL) given each year to "to the goalkeeper(s) having played a minimum of 25...

William Louis Petersen (born February 21, 1953) is an American actor and producer. He is best known for his role as Gil Grissom in the CBS drama series...

William Goldman (August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He won...

Fort William was the fort that was granted (Britishers were allowed to construct it on the grounds of Bengal) to the Britishers by the Nawab of Bengal...

William Emmett Dever (March 13, 1862 – September 3, 1929) was an American politician who was the Mayor of Chicago from 1923 through 1928. During his term...

William Willis (1837–1894) was a British medical doctor and professor at the University of Tokyo. Willis was born in Ireland in 1837. He was awarded his...

from the original on 2022-10-13. Retrieved 2021-06-05. Media related to William Usery at Wikimedia Commons This short article about a person from the United...

William Buckland DD FRS (12 March 1784 – 14 August 1856) was an English theologian who became Dean of Westminster. He was also a geologist and palaeontologist...

William Clito (1102–1128), was the Count of Flanders and titular Duke of Normandy. His epithet "Clito" was a Latin term meaning the same as the Anglo-Saxon...

William Wrigley Jr. (September 30, 1861 – January 26, 1932) was an American businessman. He was the founder of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. His company...

William Tell (French: Guillaume Tell) is a 1903 French silent movie directed by Lucien Nonguet and stars Edmond Boutillon. Edmond Boutillon as Albrecht...

William Rufus DeVane King (April 7, 1786 – April 18, 1853) was a U.S. representative from North Carolina, a U.S. senator from Alabama, and the 13th vice...

William Browder (January 6, 1934 – February 2025) was an American mathematician. His works focused in algebraic topology, differential topology and differential...

William Alison Anders (October 17, 1933 – June 7, 2024) was a United States Air Force officer, NASA astronaut, businessman, and engineer. He was a member...

John William Middendorf II (September 22, 1924 – October 24, 2025) was an American politician. He served as the United States Secretary of the Navy under...

William Clay Ford, Sr. (March 14, 1925 – March 9, 2014) was an American businessman. He was the last surviving grandchild of Henry Ford. Ford owned and...

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (c. 1146 — 14 May 1219), sometimes called William, the Marshal or simply the Marshal and also William Marshal I...

William Atherton (born William Atherton Knight; July 30, 1947) is an American movie, stage and television actor. He is known for his roles as Richard "Dick"...

Prince William Sound is a body of water in the Gulf of Alaska. A sound is a small body of water that comes in from the ocean. Prince William Sound is...

Sir Frederick William Herschel FRS (15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-British astronomer, the greatest observational astronomer of the day...

William Vance was the pen name of William van Cutsem (8 September 1935 – 14 May 2018), a Belgian comics artist. He was born in Anderlecht, Belgium. Vance...

William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents...

William Conrad (John William Cann Jr., September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994) was an American movie, television, stage, voice, radio actor, movie director...

William Lewis Safir (December 17, 1929 – September 27, 2009), better known as William Safire (/ˈsæfaɪər/), was an American author, columnist, journalist...

King Frederick William IV of Prussia (German: Friedrich Wilhelm IV. von Preußen) (15 October 1795 – 2 January 1861) was the eldest son and successor of...

Seann William Scott (born October 3, 1976) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Steve Stifler in the American Pie series. He...

The William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library to honor and remember President of the United States William McKinley...

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848) was a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Lamb was elected to Parliament in...

The Rev. William J. O'Malley, S.J. (born August 18, 1931) is an American author and actor. He was born in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from the College...

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was an English Physicist. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He...

William Peter Van Ness (February 13, 1778–September 6, 1826) was a United States federal judge. Van Ness was born in Ghent, New York. He is the son of...

William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American writer, screenwriter, and movie director. The novel The Exorcist, written in...

King William County is a county in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, 17,810 people lived there. Its county seat is King William. "QuickFacts:...

William Bruce Davis (born January 13, 1938) is a Canadian actor, television director, and activist. He is best known for his role as The Smoking Man on...

William Hooper (June 17, 1742–October 14, 1790), was an American lawyer, politician, and a member of the Continental Congress representing North Carolina...

William Francis Hagerty IV (/ˈhæɡərti/ HAG-ər-tee; born August 14, 1959) is an American politician, former diplomat and businessman. Since 2021, he has...

Steven William Umboh also known as Stevan William or Stefan William (born in California, United States, August, 11, 1993) is an American and Indonesian...

William J. Monahan (born November 3, 1960) is an American screenwriter, movie director and author. He wrote the satirical novel Light House: A Trifle...

William Jewell College is a private, four-year Christian liberal arts college. It has around 1,274 undergraduate students. It is in Liberty, Missouri...

William Adams (24 September 1564 – 16 May 1620), was an English navigator. He was the first Englishman to visit Japan. Adams later became samurai status...

William Patrick Roache OBE (born 25 April 1932) is an English actor. He is best known for portraying the role of Ken Barlow in the British ITV soap opera...

William Moses Kunstler (July 7, 1919 – September 4, 1995) was an American lawyer and civil rights activist. He was known for defending the Chicago Seven...

Sir William Patrick Deane (born 4 January 1931) is an Australian lawyer and judge. He served as the 22nd Governor-General of Australia, in office from...

Sweet William a Eurasian pink widely grown for its clusters of small bright-coloured flowers. Biennial to perennial plant belonging to the pink family...

William Joseph McDonough (April 21, 1934 – January 22, 2018) was an American economist. He was a vice chairman and special advisor to the chairman at...

William Henry Harrison Miller (September 6, 1840–May 25, 1917) was an American lawyer and Attorney General of the United States. Born in Augusta, New...

William Denby "Bill" Hanna (July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001) was an American animator, director, producer and co-founder with Joseph Barbera of Hanna-Barbera...

William Blum (/blʌm/; March 6, 1933 – December 9, 2018) was an American author and historian. He was a critic of United States foreign policy. He worked...

William Bradford (c. 19 March 1590 – 9 May 1657) was an English Puritan Separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. He...

William Grawn Milliken (March 26, 1922 – October 18, 2019) was an American politician. He served as the 44th Governor of Michigan from January 22, 1969...

William Burke and William Hare, pictured at Burke's trial The Burke and Hare murders (or West Port murders) were serial murders in Edinburgh, Scotland...

William Pierce Frye (September 2, 1830–August 8, 1911) was a United States politician from Maine. He served in both the United States Senate and House...

William Lawson may mean: William Lawson (banker) (1772–1848), businessman, office holder, justice of the peace and politician born in Halifax, Nova Scotia...

Invitation to William was a letter sent by seven famous Englishmen. They were later named the Immortal Seven. They sent this letter to William III, Prince...

Charles William "Billy" Haines (January 2, 1900 – December 26, 1973) was an American movie actor and interior designer. He was a popular star of the silent...

William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner; 26 April 1872 – 1 February 1922) was an Irish director and actor. He was a popular person...

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778) was a prime minister of Great Britain. He was appointed by King George III. His London...

William II of Bavaria (5 April 1365—31 May 1417) was Duke of Bavaria-Straubing and count of Holland...

William Rosecrans (September 6, 1819 – March 11, 1898) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was born in 1819 in Ohio. He...

Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen KBE RA (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931) was an Irish portrait painter, who worked mainly in London. He was an...

William Penn (14 October 1644-30 July 1718) was an English colonial leader. He was very wealthy and owned slaves who he forced to work on his plantation...

William "Gatz" Hjortsberg (February 23, 1941 – April 22, 2017) was an American novelist and screenwriter. He was known for writing the screenplay of the...

William Dozier (February 13, 1908 – April 23, 1991) was an American movie and television producer and actor. He is probably best known for being the narrator...

William Huggins, KCB, OM, FRS, (7 February 1824–12 May 1910) was an English astronomer best known for his work in astronomical spectroscopy. William Huggins...

William Hilton Hovell (April 26 1786 — November 9 1875) was an English explorer of Australia. Together with Hamilton Hume he explored much of Victoria...

Fort William was a city in Northern Ontario. It was on the Kaministiquia River, at its entrance to Lake Superior. It amalgamated with Port Arthur and...

William Christopher (October 20, 1932 – December 31, 2016) was an American actor. He was best known for playing Father Mulcahy on the television series...

William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, was shot on September 6, 1901, inside the Temple of Music on the grounds of the Pan-American...

William Aubert Luce (October 16, 1931 – December 9, 2019) was an American playwright and television writer. He wrote many plays which starred Julie Harris...

William Michael "Hoot" Hootkins (July 5, 1948 – October 23, 2005) was an American actor and comedian who was known for his roles in Raiders of the Lost...

William McIlvanney (25 November 1936 – 5 December 2015) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, and poet. McIlvanney was known for his works Laidlaw...

Prince William of Gloucester (William Henry Andrew Frederick; 18 December 1941 – 28 August 1972) was a grandson of King George V and a cousin of Queen...

singer and songwriter. He was born William Bruce Bailey in Lafayette, Indiana, and grew up under the name William 'Bill' Bailey. He is best known as the...

William Reid Pogue (January 23, 1930 – March 4, 2014) was an American NASA astronaut, teacher, public speaker and writer. He is best known for being a...

William Sanderson (born January 10, 1944) is an American actor, known for his work in such feature movies as Blade Runner (1982) and in such television...

William of Ockham was a Franciscan friar who lived in the 14th century. He was born around 1285, in Ockham, Surrey, England, and died on 9 April 1347...

William Richard Werstine (better known as Billy West) (born April 16, 1952) is an American voice actor, musician, singer and songwriter. He is known for...

George William Needles CM, LL.D, (January 2, 1919 – January 12, 2016) was an American-born Canadian actor and teacher. He was born in Yonkers, New York...

William Hale Thompson (May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944) was an American who was the Mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931. Known...

William II of the Netherlands (Willem Frederik George Lodewijk van Oranje-Nassau; 6 December 1792 – 7 March/17 March 1849) was King of the Netherlands...

William O'Dwyer (July 11, 1890 – November 24, 1964) was an American politician. He was the 100th Mayor of New York City. He was mayor from January 1946...

William Baldwin (born February 21, 1963) is an American actor, writer and producer. His movies include Internal Affairs (1990), Flatliners (1990) and...

William Francis Murphy (May 14, 1940 – March 26, 2026) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre...

William Thornton may refer to: William E. Thornton (1929-2021), American astronaut William Henry Thornton...

William Henry Hartnell (8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975) was an English actor. He best known for playing the First Doctor on Doctor Who from 1963 to 1966...

William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist. He...

Captain Kidd, or, by his real name, William Kidd, (c. 1645 – 23 May 1701) was a Scottish pirate and sailor. It is heard that he buried a treasure chest...

William Blaine "Bill" Richardson III (November 15, 1947 – September 1, 2023) was an American politician. He was the Governor of the United States state...

William Esco Moerner (born June 24, 1953) is an American physical chemist and chemical physicist. He is known for his first optical detection and spectroscopy...

William Emerson "Bill" Brock III (November 23, 1930 – March 25, 2021) was a Republican United States senator from Tennessee, having served from 1971 to...

is in the Normandy region of France. Faliase is where William the Conqueror was born. William became Duke of Normandy when he was just a boy. He went...

William Dodd Hathaway (February 21, 1924 – June 24, 2013) was an American Democratic Party politician from Maine. Hathaway was born on February 21, 1924...

William of Tyre (c. 1130 – 29 September 1186) was a medieval prelate and chronicler. He was the archbishop of Tyre. He is sometimes known as William II...

William Shatner (born 1931) is a Canadian actor. He has had a career in movies and television for seven decades. Shatner is best known for was his portrayal...

William Cobbett (9 March 1763– 18 June 1835) was a journalist and Member of Parliament for England for the Radicals. He made many journeys around England...

William Marrion Branham (April 6, 1909 – December 24, 1965) was an American Christian minister and faith healer. He left a lasting impact on televangelism...

William Wyler (/ˈwaɪlər/; born Willi Wyler (German: [ˈvɪlɪ ˈvi:lɐ]); July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981) was a German-Swiss movie director, producer and screenwriter...

William Whewell (24 May 1794 – 6 March 1866) was an English polymath, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science. He influenced...

For other people named William Griffiths, see William Griffiths (disambiguation). William Griffiths (7 April 1912–14 April 1973) was a British Labour Party...

William Floyd Weld (born July 31, 1945) is an American attorney, businessman and Republican politician. He was the 68th Governor of the Commonwealth of...

William Dunn Moseley (February 1, 1795 – January 4, 1863) was an American politician. A Democrat and North Carolina native, Moseley became the first Governor...

William Pfaff (December 1928 – April 30, 2015) was an American writer. He was an author and op-ed columnist for the International Herald Tribune. He also...

William John Coffee (1774–1846) was an English artist and sculptor who worked in porcelain, plaster, and terra cotta. He also worked in oil paint, although...

William Jay Smith (22 April 1918 – 18 August 2015) was an American poet. He was the 19th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress...

William Alvin "Tex" Moncrief Jr. (March 27, 1920 – December 29, 2021) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He worked in the oil and gas sector...

William Russell Enoch (19 November 1924 – 3 June 2024), better known as William Russell, was an English actor. He was born in Sunderland, County Durham...

William "Bill" Bogert (January 24, 1936 – January 12, 2020) was an American character actor. He was best known for his role as Brandon Brindle on the...

William Lewis Guy (September 30, 1919 – April 26, 2013) was an American politician who was the governor of the U.S. state of North Dakota from 1961 to...

William de Clerq Reynolds (December 9, 1931 – August 24, 2022) was an American actor. He was best known for his movie roles in the 1950s and his television...

Frederic William Henry Myers (1843 – 1901) was a classical scholar, poet, philosopher, and past president of the Society for Psychical Research. Frederic...

William Gianelli (February 19, 1919 – March 30, 2020) was an American lawyer, engineer and politician. He was the United States Assistant Secretary of...

William Duborgh Jensen (10 May 1935 – 24 May 2017) was a Norwegian fashion and costume designer. He was Norway's first "haute couturier" with his own...

William Steele Sessions (May 27, 1930 – June 12, 2020) an American politician and lawyer. He served as a federal judge and Director of the Federal Bureau...

William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American author and literary critic. His works include the Christmas story "Christmas Every...

William Samoei arap Ruto (born 21 December 1966) is a Kenyan politician who is the 5th President of Kenya since 2022. He was the Deputy President of Kenya...

Benjamin William Mkapa (November 12, 1938 – July 24, 2020) was a Tanzanian politician. He was the third President of Tanzania, in office from 1995 to...

Karl Tore William Thoresson (31 May 1932 – 4 March 2026) was a Swedish gymnast. He competed at the 1952, 1956, 1960, and 1964 Olympics. He won two medals...

William Thaw Sr. (October 12, 1818 – August 17, 1889) was an American businessman. He made his business chance in transportation and banking. "William...

William Bradford (September 14, 1755 – August 23, 1795) was an American lawyer and judge. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bradforn was the...

William "Bill" Margold (October 2, 1943 – January 18, 2017) was an American pornographic actor and director. He was born in Washington, D.C., the capital...

William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922) was a writer, naturalist, and ornithologist. He wrote Green Mansions. List of biologists Works by...

William Thomas Cosgrave (6 June 1880 – 16 November 1965) was an Irish Fine Gael politician. He was President of the Executive Council from 1922 to 1932...

William Dufris (February 1, 1958 – March 24, 2020) was an American voice actor and Audiobook narrator. He was born in Houlton, Maine. He was known for...

William Bateson (Yorkshire, 8 August 1861 – 8 February 1926) was a British zoologist, a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge University. He was the...

William John Wills (1834—1861) was an English surveyor. He was born in Totnes, Devon. He became one of the first explorers to cross Australia from the...

William James Lombardy (December 4, 1937 – October 13, 2017) was an American chess grandmaster, chess writer, teacher, and a former Catholic priest. Lombardy...

William Bligh (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was an English officer in the British Navy. He sailed with Captain James Cook on his third and final...

William Windom (September 28, 1923 – August 16, 2012) was an American movie, radio, stage, voice, and mostly television actor who's career has lasted...

William Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist. He received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental...

William Gopallawa (17 September 1897 - 31 January 1981) was the first President of Sri Lanka. He was the last Governor-General of Ceylon from 1962 to...

William, Willy or Bill Russell (or other variants) may refer to: William Russell (American actor) (1884–1929), stage and screen performer William D. Russell...

William Francis Nolan (March 6, 1928 – July 15, 2021) was an American author. He wrote hundreds of stories in the science fiction, fantasy and horror...

William Childs Westmoreland (March 26, 1914 – July 18, 2005) was an United States Army four-star general. Westmoreland commanded U.S. military operations...

William I, known as the Lion (1142 - 4 December 1214) was King of Scotland from 1165 until 1214. His time as ruler was one of the longest in Scottish...

William A. Alexander (June 6, 1889 – April 23, 1950) was the third head football coach at Georgia Tech. Alexander graduated from Georgia Tech in 1912...

William Henry Trotter "Bucky" Bush, CStJ (July 14, 1938 – February 27, 2018) was an American businessman. He was the youngest son of Prescott Sheldon...

William Henry Donaldson (June 2, 1931 – June 12, 2024) was an American politician. He was the 27th Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...

Godwinson, and a decisive victory for the Normans. William, the Duke of Normandy, was crowned as King William I of England ten weeks later. The Norman conquest...

was a murder (killing) that happened in Polstead in 1827. A man named William Corder shot his lover, Maria Marten. The Red Barn was a local landmark...

William Donald Schaefer (November 2, 1921 – April 18, 2011) was an American politician. He was a Democrat. He was the 44th Mayor of Baltimore from December...

William Francis Quinn (July 13, 1919 – August 28, 2006) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 12th and last governor of the Territory of Hawaii...

William Paine Lord (July 1, 1838 - February 17, 1911), was a Republican politician. He was Governor of Oregon from 1895 to 1899. Lord was born to Edward...

William Lacy Clay Jr. (born July 27, 1956) is an American politician. He was the U.S. Representative from Missouri's 1st congressional district from 2001...

John William Waterhouse (6 April 1849 – 10 February 1917) was an English painter in the Pre-Raphaelite style. He worked after the breakup of the Pre-Raphaelite...

William Lester "Bill" Armstrong (March 16, 1937 – July 5, 2016) was an American businessman and politician. He was a member of the Republican party. He...

William Dunlop (23 July 1985 – 7 July 2018) was a Northern Irish professional motorcycle racer. He was part of a motorcycle racing dynasty. Dunlop was...

William Laws Calley Jr. (June 8, 1943 – April 28, 2024) was a convicted American war criminal who was found guilty of some of the killings of the My Lai...

William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist. He is famous for drawing imaginary complicated...

William I (Willem Frederik, Prince of Orange-Nassau; 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843) was a Prince of Orange, the King of the Netherlands and Grand...

William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and mystic. He was born in Dublin, Ireland on 13 June 1865. He spent...

William Turner may refer to: William Turner (composer), English baroque composer J. M. W. Turner (William Turner) (1775 – 1851), English Romantic landscape...

William III of Aquitaine (c. 915 – 3 April 963) became the Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitiers in 935. He was the son of Ebalus of Aquitaine. William's...

Sir William Walton OM, (born Oldham, 29 March 1902; died Ischia, Italy, 8 March 1983) was a British composer and conductor. He was one of the most important...

William Langland (c. 1332 – c. 1386) was an English poet. He wrote a long and complicated poem called Piers Plowman. The poem is an allegory about the...

William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, (14 April 1738 – 30 October 1809) was a British Whig and Tory statesman and twice Prime...

William Kemmler was the first convict executed by electrocution. He was convicted of murdering Matilda "Tillie" Ziegler, his common law wife. Kemmler...

William Robert Graham (born June 15, 1937) is an American physicist. Graham was Chairman of President Reagan's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control...

William Smith (March 24, 1933 – July 5, 2021) was an American actor. He was known for his role as Anthony Falconetti in the 1970s television mini-series...

William George Morgan (23 January 1870 – 27 December 1942) was an American educator and businessman. He was the inventor of volleyball, originally called...

William T. Anderson (1840 – October 26, 1864), also known as "Bloody Bill" Anderson, was one of the deadliest and most famous pro-Confederate guerrilla...

William Charles Anthony Gaunt (born 3 April 1937) is an English actor. Between 1983 and 1987 he starred as harassed father Arthur Crabtree in the sitcom...

Sir William Davenant was an English poet and playwright. There were also rumours about Davenant being a bastard son of William Shakespeare though they...

joint reigns as those of "William and Mary". Mary had less power than William when William remained in England. When William went to military campaigns...

William Joseph Levada (June 15, 1936 – September 26, 2019) was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. From May 2005 until June 2012, he was...

Seattle in April 2002 after a fatal drug overdose. William DuVall took over as the lead singer in 2006. William DuVall - lead vocals, rhythm guitar (2006-present)...

Sir William Macpherson of Cluny (William Alan Macpherson; 1 April 1926 – 14 February 2021) was a Scottish High Court judge. He served as the 27th Hereditary...

William Howard Gass (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017) was an American novelist, critic and philosophy professor. He wrote three books, Omensetter's Luck...

Carl William Demarest (February 27, 1892 – December 28, 1983) was an American character actor. He is best known for playing Uncle Charley in My Three...

Dr. William Bland (5 November 1789 – 21 July 1868) was a convict, doctor and surgeon, politician, farmer and inventor in New South Wales, Australia. Bland...

William Harold Greider (August 6, 1936 – December 25, 2019) was an American journalist and author. He wrote mainly about economics. He was national affairs...

William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English writer. He is most famous for his novel, Vanity Fair. The title is from a...

William McReynolds Agee (January 5, 1938 – December 20, 2017) was an American business executive. He was born in Boise, Idaho. In 1976 at age 38, he was...

William John Keating (March 30, 1927 – May 20, 2020) was an American businessman and politician of the Republican Party. From 1967-70, he served on the...

(meaning good scholar), was the King of England from his older brother, William II's possible assassination in 1100 until his death in 1135. He was also...

William S. "Bill" Broomfield, (April 28, 1922 – February 20, 2019) was an American politician. He represented the U.S. state of Michigan in the United...

Henry McCarty (1859 – 14 July 1881) was also known as William H. Bonney, and known popularly as Billy the Kid. He was an American gunman who took part...

William Gilbert also known as Gilberd (24 May 1544? – 30 November 1603) was an English physicist, physician and natural philosopher. He was considered...

William Orville Douglas (October 16, 1898 – January 19, 1980) was an American jurist and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme...

William Negri (Italian pronunciation: [ˈwilljam ˈneːɡri]; 30 July 1935 – 26 June 2020) was an Italian association football manager and footballer. He...

William Wallace "Wally" Barron (December 8, 1911 – November 12, 2002) was a Democratic politician in West Virginia. He was the state's 26th Governor from...

William James "Willem" Dafoe (/dəˈfoʊ/; born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. He was born in Appleton, Wisconsin. He played major roles in To Live...

William Wintersole (July 30, 1931 – November 5, 2019) was an American actor. He appeared on The Young and the Restless for over 20 years as Mitchell Sherman...

William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-Irish fascist supporter and Nazi propaganda broadcaster...

William Troy (1848–March 8, 1907) entered Service in the US Navy from Massachusetts as a United States Navy sailor. For bravery in action during the 1871...

William Carney (July 1, 1942 – May 23, 2017) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New...

William Joseph Coyne (August 24, 1936 – November 3, 2013) was an American politician. He was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives...

William Chervy (3 June 1937 – 12 February 2021) was a French politician. He was a member of the Socialist Party. He was Mayor of Saint-Vaury from 1971...

William Hickling Prescott (May 4, 1796 – January 29, 1859) was an American historian who was interested in Spain and the Spanish Empire. He is known as...

William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651; died March 1715) was the first Englishman to explore parts of Australia. He was the first person to circumnavigate...

William Labov (/ləˈboʊv/ lə-BOHV; (December 4, 1927 – December 17, 2024) was an American linguist. He was seen as the founder of sociolinguistics. He...

Sir William Dobell (24 September 1899, Newcastle, New South Wales - 13 May 1970, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales) was a famous Australian artist, well...

William Frederick Blinn (July 21, 1937 — October 22, 2020) was an American screenwriter and television producer. He was born in Toledo, Ohio. Blinn wrote...

John William Finn (July 23, 1909 – May 27, 2010) was an American sailor in the United States Navy. He served as a chief petty officer. He received the...

William Alfred Hawkins (May 20, 1940 – July 4, 2016) was a Canadian songwriter, poet, musician and journalist. He was known for his works in the 1960s...

William Thomas Astbury FRS (Bill Astbury, 25 February 1898, Longton – 4 June 1961, Leeds) was an English physicist and molecular biologist. Astbury made...

William Wilson is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1839. The theme is doppelganger. The narrator is a dying man of "a noble descent" who choses...

William Boeing, also called William E. Boeing, was the founder of the airplane company Boeing. He was born on October 1, 1881. In 1916, he made a plane...

by Jaguar Land Rover. The original company was established in 1922 by William Lyons and was renamed Jaguar in 1935. Jaguar is known for its luxury saloons...

William Dale Wittliff (January 21, 1940 – June 9, 2019), sometimes credited as Bill Wittliff, was an American screenwriter, author and photographer. He...

William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874– 16 December 1965) was an English novelist, short story writer and playwright. He was born at the British Embassy...

William Gladstone Stewart (15 July 1933 – 21 September 2017) was an English television producer, director, and host. He was best known as the presenter...

William Swords was an Irish archer. He was born on 21 July 1942 and died on 19 October 2007. Swords competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Willie Swords...

William Young Smith (August 13, 1925 – January 19, 2016) was an American military official. He was a United States Air Force four-star general. He was...

William Jacobus vanden Heuvel (April 14, 1930 – June 15, 2021) was an American attorney, businessman and author, as well as a former diplomat. He served...

William Booth (10 April 1829 – 20 August 1912) was an English Methodist preacher. He and his wife Catherine, founded the Salvation Army. He became its...

William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, KG, PC (bapt. 1 June 1720 - 2 October 1764) was a British Whig statesman who was Prime Minister of Great Britain...

Alban William Housego "A. W." "Bill" Phillips, MBE (18 November 1914 – 4 March 1975) was a New Zealand economist. He was a professor of economics at the...

William Ernesto Izarra Caldera (7 May 1947 – 1 October 2021) was a Venezuelan diplomat, academic, writer, military official, and politician. He also worked...

William Joseph Bauer (September 15, 1926 – December 15, 2025) was an American judge. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was the Senior Judge on the...

William 'Strata' Smith (23 March 1769 – 28 August 1839) was an English geologist, who created the first nationwide geological map. Like another great...

Frederick William II (German: Friedrich Wilhelm II; 25 September 1744 – 16 November 1797) was the fourth King of Prussia. He ruled from 1786 until his...

Joseph William Martin Jr. (November 3, 1884 – March 6, 1968) was an American politician. He was the 44th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives...

William Lawson (2 June 1774 – 16 June 1850) was an explorer of New South Wales, Australia. He helped discover a passage inland through the Blue Mountains...

William Ash (born 13 January 1977) is an English actor. He is best known for portraying the role of Christopher Mead in the BBC school-based drama series...

wife of William the Conqueror. She was the daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders and Adela of France and the mother of Robert Curthose, William II and...

William Gillock (July 1, 1917 - September 7, 1993) was an American composer. He was born in La Russell, Missouri. He taught music and composed piano music...

William McGonagall (born Edinburgh, March 1825 – died Edinburgh, 29 September 1902) was a Scottish poet. He thought he was good at writing poetry, but...

William Douglas Humia Menezes is a retired footballer from Brazil. He was born on 1 March 1963. Douglas played for the Brazil national football team....

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa...

William Ross Maples, Ph.D. (Dallas, Texas; August 7, 1937 - Gainesville, Florida; February 27, 1997) was a forensic anthropologist. He worked at the C...

William Dod was an archer from Great Britain. He was born on 18 July 1867 and died on 8 October 1954. Dod competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics. William...

William Miller was an American politician from the state of New York who served in the US House for 7 terms from 1951 to 1965. Miller was a conservative...

William Hill is a British gambling company started in 1934. It does sports betting, online casino, online poker, and online bingo. It has a headquarters...

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is an Academy Award nominated 1996 American movie adaptation of William Shakespeare's...

Bishop William Regis Fey, O.F.M.Cap. (November 6, 1942 – January 19, 2021) was an American Roman Catholic prelate. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...

William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863–August 14, 1951) was an important American newspaper owner who was born in San Francisco, California. He was the...

William IV (William Alexander; French: Guillaume Alexandre; 22 April 1852 – 25 February 1912) reigned as the Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 17 November...

William C. Campbell may refer to: Wilburn C. Campbell (1910–1997), Episcopal bishop of West Virginia (common misspelling of first name) William C. Campbell...

William Laud (1573 - 1645) was a close advisor of Charles I of England. He was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633. He was executed in 1645, 5 years after...

William Edgar Thornton (M.D.) (April 14, 1929 – January 11, 2021) was an American NASA astronaut. He was born in Faison, North Carolina. Thornton was...

William Joseph Bell (March 6, 1927 – April 29, 2005) was an American screenwriter and television producer. He was best known as the creator of the soap...

William Edwin Dannemeyer (September 22, 1929 – July 9, 2019) was a conservative American politician, activist, and author. He was known for his criticism...

William Oughtred 5 March 1574 – 30 June 1660) was an English mathematician and Anglican clergyman. John Napier invented logarithms and Edmund Gunter created...

William Knowlton Zinsser (October 7, 1922 - May 12, 2015) was an American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher. He began his career as a journalist...

being William K. Reilly (served 1989-1993). The most recent death of a former administrator of the environmental protection agency was that of William Ruckelshaus...

William Thomas Lawrence (May 7, 1788 – October 25, 1859) was a U.S. Representative from New York. He was the brother of Samuel Lawrence. Born as the son...

William Charles Powers Jr. (May 30, 1946 – March 10, 2019) was an American attorney, academic, and university administrator. He was the 28th president...

William Howell Masters (December 27, 1915 – February 16, 2001) was an American gynecologist. He was best known as the senior member of the Masters and...

William Edward Rush (born 6 July 1994 – 17 December 2025) was an English actor and singer-songwriter. He was best known for portraying the role of Josh...

William Shand (1902 – 1997) was a writer and translator. He was born in Scotland. He lived in Argentina. He wrote poetry. He was also a playwright. He...

William Vollie Alexander Jr. (born January 16, 1934) is a retired American politician. He represented the U.S. state of Arkansas in the United States...

William Franklin Graham Jr. KBE (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018), better known as Billy Graham, was an American Evangelical Christian minister and...

Sir William Waad (also Wade or Wadd) (1546 – 1623) was an English diplomat and administrator. He served as a special diplomatic agent for Elizabeth I...

William Daniel Leahy (/ˈleɪ(h)i/ LAY-(h)ee; 6 May 1875 – 20 July 1959) was an American naval officer. He was the most senior United States military officer...

William M. Jennings (December 14, 1920 – August 17, 1981) was an owner in the National Hockey League. Born in New York, New York, Jennings was owner of...

William Sheldrick Conover II (August 27, 1928 – October 7, 2022) was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives...

William McPherson (March 16, 1933 – March 28, 2017) was an American writer and journalist. He is the author of two novels, Testing the Current and To...

William Floyd "Bill" Clinger Jr. (April 4, 1929 – May 28, 2021) was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives...

Captain William Baillie (5 June 1723 – 22 December 1810) was an Irish military man and artist. Baillie went to London at age of 18 to study law, but liked...

William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1190 – 6 April 1231) was an English nobleman. He was the son of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke. He became...

John William Ashe (20 August 1954 – 22 June 2016) was an Antiguan politician. He was the President of the United Nations General Assembly at its 68th...

William Henry Avery (August 11, 1911 – November 4, 2009) was an American Republican Party politician who was the 37th Governor of Kansas from 1965 until...

William John "Bill" Hughes (October 17, 1932 – October 30, 2019) was an American politician. He served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives...

William Chase Taubman (born November 13, 1941) is an American political scientist. He is known for writing Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. It won the...

William Helm (March 9, 1837 – April 10, 1919) was the largest individual sheep farmer in Fresno County. He was instrumental in the growth and prosperity...

William Noah Hedges (16 July 1856 – 21 November 1935) was an Australian politician. Born in Hertfordshire in England, he moved to Australia in 1878. He...

William Theodore Link (December 15, 1933 – December 27, 2020) was an American screenwriter and producer. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Link...

William Taylor Adams (July 30, 1822 – March 27, 1897), was an American writer and children's magazine editor. He used the pen name "Oliver Optic". Adams...

William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist. He was born and raised in Albany, New York. He studied in Siena College...

William Riley Dunham (1856–1921) wan an American politician. He was a member of the Indiana General Assembly from 1913 to 1915. He represented Hamilton...

William McComas Byron Jr. (born November 29, 1997) is an American Race Car driver. He drives the No. 24 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Hendrick Motorsports...

William Ridley Spaulding (June 15, 1924 – November 1, 2021) was an American Democrat politician. He was born in North Carolina. He was one of the first...

William Craig (November 13, 1918 – January 13, 2016) was an German-born American professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley. His interests...

United States Secretary of War under President Roosevelt and President William McKinley. He was later a United States Senator from New York until 1915...

October 15 1066, and abdicated in December 1066, clearing the way for William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy to be crowned on December 25 1066. Edgar...

William Thomas Stead (5 July 1849 – 15 April 1912) was a British writer and journalist. He was a pioneer of investigative journalism, and one of the most...

formally renamed the Frederick-William University. The university was named in honor of the reigning monarch, Frederick William III of Prussia. The university...

William Henry Gates, Sr. (born William Henry Gates II, November 30, 1925 – September 14, 2020) was an American attorney, philanthropist and author of the...

William Holman Hunt OM (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was an English painter, and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. Hunt formed...

William Henry Keeler (March 4, 1931 – March 23, 2017) was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland...

Edward William Binney FRS (1812–1882) was an English geologist. Edward William Binney was born in Morton, Nottinghamshire in 1812. He was apprenticed...

William Wyatt Bibb (2 October 1781 – 10 July 1820) was a United States Senator from Georgia. He was the first Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama. Bibb...

Peregrine White (1620 – 1704) was a child of William and Susanne White and the brother of Resolved White. Peregrine was born in 1620 aboard the ship Mayflower...

In English, his first name means "William", which is sometimes used instead. Because his brother Frederick William IV of Prussia had a stroke in 1857...

The William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park is a presidential library created to honor the life and achievements of President of the United States...

William Reynolds “Bill” Archer Jr. (born March 22, 1928) is an American lawyer and politician. Archer served two terms, from 1967 to 1971, in the Texas...

David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, PC (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician and the 68th Foreign Secretary from 2023...

William Edward Hickey (September 19, 1927 – June 29, 1997) was an American actor. He is best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Don Corrado Prizzi...

William Hamilton Dalrymple (b. 1965) is a British writer and historian. He has written a number of books, especially on the history of India, like The...

William (or Guillim) Scrots (or Scrotes or Stretes) was a painter who worked in the sixteenth century. As an artist, much of his work involved painting...

William Reibert Mapother, Jr. (/ˈmeɪpɒθər/; born April 17, 1965) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Ethan Rom on the television series...

William Brown (1761 – 20 September 1793) was an Assistant gardener who became a Mutineer on the mutiny on the bounty. As assistant to Botanist David Nelson...

Fort William (Scottish Gaelic: An Gearasdan [ən ˈkʲɛɾəs̪t̪ən]; "The Garrison") is in the Scottish Highlands. It is a town in the area of Lochaber on the...

is about the composer William Turner. For other people called William Turner see William Turner (disambiguation page). William Turner (born Oxford 1651;...

William E. Roberts (February 1, 1926 – July 9, 2025) was an American politician. He served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Carroll's State...

Wilhelmus Johannes Maria (William) Brand (born September 28, 1963) is a Dutch architect and artist. He graduated from the Utrecht School of Arts in The...

William Henry Reynolds (June 14, 1910 – July 16, 1997) was an American movie editor. He edited movies for sixty years. He edited The Sound of Music, The...

William Monroe Trotter (April 7 1872 - April 7, 1934) was an activist for African American civil rights. He made his weekly newspaper called "Black Radical"...

Sir William Crookes was an English chemist. He is known for finding cathode-ray studies. "Sir William Crookes | Physicist, Spectroscopy, Radiometer |...

William "Bill" Mason Gray (October 9, 1929 – April 16, 2016) was Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University (CSU), and the...

Raymond William Johnson (born August 14, 1981) is an American internet personality, actor, and comedian. He became famous for his YouTube series called...

Ancient Greek language. Famous English poets are William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth, William Blake, John Keats, and Percy Shelley. They...

William Pettus “Bill” Hobby Jr. (born January 19, 1932) is an American Democratic politician who served a record eighteen years as the 37th Lieutenant...

Maddie Taylor (born December 31, 1966), formerly known as Matthew William Taylor, is an American voice actress, storyboard artist and comedian, known...

William Bonemer Júnior, known professionally as William Bonner (born 16 November 1963), is a Brazilian newscaster, publicist and journalist. He is the...

William Krehm (November 23, 1913 – April 19, 2019) was a Canadian author, journalist, political activist and real estate developer. He was born in Toronto...

Edward William Proxmire (November 11, 1915 – December 15, 2005) was an American politician who was a member of the Democratic Party. He was a U.S. senator...

William Leonard Pickard (born October 21, 1945) is an American writer, researcher and convicted drug trafficker. He is one of two people convicted in...

John William McCormack (December 21, 1891 – November 22, 1980) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Democrat. He was a member of the United...

William of Sherwood was a scholastic philosopher, logician, and teacher from England. He was born in 1200 and died between 1266 and 1271. William of Sherwood...

William Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, the second Governor of Plymouth, (Boston: 1856), pp. 102, 103 449, 452 William Bradford...

Twelfth Night, Or What You Will is a play written by William Shakespeare. It is a romantic comedy. Orsino, the Duke of lllyria, is in love with the Countess...

Louise Herron "Nellie" Taft (June 2, 1861 – May 22, 1943) was the wife of William Howard Taft and First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913. Her...

William Barclay Foster (1779 - 1855) was an American businessperson. He was the father of Stephen Foster, a well-known songwriter. He has been called...

Richard William Timm (2 March 1923 – 11 September 2020) was an American Catholic priest, educator, zoologist, and development worker. He was the Superior...

William Alfred Newsom III (February 15, 1934 – December 12, 2018) was an American politician and lawyer. He was born in San Francisco, California. He...

also five military governors during the colonial period time such as, William P. Duval, John Eaton, Richard K. Call, Robert R. Reid, and John Branch...

probably limited. Noble gases were discovered by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay. Rayleigh won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904 for his work on...

William Least Heat-Moon (born William Lewis Trogdon on August 27, 1939) is an American travel writer and historian. He is the author of several books...

Allerton, 3, daughter William Bradford Dorothy (May) Bradford* of William, wife William Brewster Mary Brewster, wife of William Love Brewster 9, son Wrestling...

William Brantley Aycock (October 24, 1915 – June 20, 2015) was an American educator. He served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

William II (27 May 1626 – 6 November 1650) was sovereign Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, Overijssel and Groningen...

husband William III. Mary and William had no children. Anne became Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland on 8 March 1702 after the death of William. In...

William Sealy Gosset was a famous English statistician. He worked for Guinness brewery in Ireland. He created new ways to analyze small sets of data....

William Hill (11 June 1945 – 27 July 2020) was a Hong Kong sprinter. He competed in the men's 200 and 400 metres at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Hill died...

States for a very brief period. She was married to William Henry Harrison Jr. William was the son of William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United...

William III of Orange-Nassau, James's nephew, took over as king and came to England with his wife, Queen Mary, the daughter of James II and William's...

William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947), also known by the pen name Charles Moulton (/ˈmoʊltən/) was an American psychologist and comic book...

William John Ellis Cox, AC, RFD, ED, QC (born 1 April 1936) is an Australian politician. He was Governor of Tasmania from 15 December 2004 to 2 April...

William Eklund (born 12 October 2002) is a Swedish professional ice hockey forward. He currently plays for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey...

Saturn. It was discovered on September 16, 1848 by William Cranch Bond, George Phillips Bond and William Lassell. It is irregular in shape, and has a sponge-like...

William Boyce (born London, 11 September 1711; died Kensington, 7 February 1779) is one of the most important English composers of the 18th century. He...

is the SI unit of temperature. It is named in honour of the physicist William Thomson, the first Lord Kelvin (1824–1907). The Kelvin scale is defined...

William Henry Danforth II (April 10, 1926 – September 16, 2020) was an American physician, professor of medicine, and academic administrator. He was chancellor...

William Mitchell College of Law was a private, independent law school. It was in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, from 1956 to 2015. It offered full-...

William Henry Bissell (April 25, 1811 – March 18, 1860) was an American politician. He was the 11th Governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1857 until...

Rothesay. The current Prince of Wales, Prince William, was born in 1982, and was known as Prince William of Wales (his father is King Charles III). In...

William Thomas Riker is a Star Trek: The Next Generation character. He is played by Jonathan Frakes. He is first officer on the starship Enterprise. This...

William Warren "Bill" Bradley (born July 28, 1943) is an American politician, basketball player, and educator. He was a member of the Democratic Party...

William Albert Yorzyk Jr. (May 29, 1933 – September 2, 2020) was an American competition swimmer. He was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. Yorzyk represented...

John William "Will" Ferrell (/ˈfɛrəl/; born July 16, 1967) is an American actor, comedian, and producer. He began his successful career as a cast member...

passenger on the Mayflower in 1620. He was born about 1611 in Holland to William and Mary Brewster. He married Sarah Collier at Plymouth, Plymouth Colony...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to William Wallace Denslow. William Wallace Denslow (/ˈdɛnsloʊ/; May 5, 1856 – March 29, 1915), is known as W. W. Denslow...

Much Ado about Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare. It is set in Messina, Sicily (which is in Italy) and is a comedy/love story about two pairs...

Tuesday, November 3, 1896. Former Governor William McKinley, the Republican candidate, defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan. The 1896 campaign happened...

William's Green is a hamlet in Kersey, Babergh, Suffolk, England. https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/TL9842 This short article about the United Kingdom...

William Pond Baker (born June 14, 1940) is an American politician and businessman. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from...

John William Snow (born August 2, 1939, in Toledo, Ohio) served as the 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury. He replaced Secretary Paul O'Neill...

William (Names: Georg Wilhelm August Heinrich Belgicus; 14 June 1792, Kirchheimbolanden – 20/30 August 1839, Kissingen) was joint sovereign Duke of Nassau...

The King's Men was a company of actors. William Shakespeare belonged to it through most of his career. During the rule of Queen Elizabeth I, they were...

sometimes known as Kate Middleton; 9 January 1982) is the wife of Prince William and mother of Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. She will...

from 1978 until his death in 1992. She had a daughter, Kathy by William Byrne. William Bryne died in an airplane accident. Byrne died in Chicago, Illinois...

William Harry McRaven was born on November 6, 1955. he is a former United States Navy officer. He was the ninth commander of the United States Special...

William Lynn Ogg (May 17, 1937 – September 10, 2020) was an American politician. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1995 to 2002...