Name William

Discover a comprehensive list of renowned individuals named William. From iconic actors like William Shakespeare and William Shatner to legendary musicians such as William Hung and Will.i.am, explore the fascinating world of celebrities sharing this distinguished name.

William F. Buckley Jr.

American writer, ideologist, founder of the popular political magazine National Review.

William Kellogg

Major businessman and philanthropist

William Michael Daley

Chief of Staff of US President Barack Obama

Television actor

William Poulter

William Greggan

British policeman and tug of war

William C. Hsiao

American economist

William Friedkin

Director, producer, screenwriter, actor

William De Corbeil

Archbishop of Canterbury from 1123 to 1136.

English medical philosopher

William Gladstone

English statesman

William Utermohlen

The artist who painted self-portraits while ill

William Hazlitt

English journalist, essayist, theorist of Romanticism

William Cockerill

British entrepreneur who lived in France.

William Bennett

English composer, the most important figure in British music of the 19th century.

William Randolph Hearst III

Director of the global publishing corporation "Hearst Corporation"

William Lloyd Garrison

American abolitionist, publicist and poet

Scottish physicist

William Shockley

American physicist and inventor originally from England

William Samoei Ruto

5th President of Kenya from 13 September 2022

William Franklyn-Miller

Young Australian voted 'most handsome boy' on Instagram

William Connor II

Owner of William E. Connor

William Edward Boeing

American aircraft manufacturer, founder of an aircraft manufacturing company

William Petersen

American actor and producer

Inspector General of Australia, Founder of the City of Adelaide

William Godfrey

English cardinal.

William Cavendish

Fifth Prime Minister of Great Britain from 16 November 1756 to 25 June 1757

William Haywood

American radical labor leader

English privateer

William Cornwallis

Renowned British Admiral

American professor and author of books on business management

William Cochran

American heldentenor singer

William Corbett

English violinist, composer, collector

Croatian-American mathematician

Welsh judge and physicist

A self-taught American engineer who founded the first airline to produce small, low-cost business jets for private customers.

The first Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi.

Financier, broker, author

General of the Parliamentary army, one of the leaders of the Presbyterians

An American army officer who participated in the extermination of civilians in the village of My Lai.

English botanist and taxonomist

William Rocha Batista

Brazilian footballer, striker.

American anthropologist

William Crabtree

An English astronomer and merchant of the early 17th century

Italian inventor and businessman

Danish footballer, midfielder

William Roberts

English language composer, violinist and violist