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.

Outstanding English ceramic artist.

Soviet and French artist

William P. Bettendorf

American inventor and industrialist

William James Sidis

An eccentric genius and child prodigy, famous in the USA at the beginning of the 20th century

King of Württemberg from October 30, 1816

William Davenant

English writer, poet, playwright of the 17th century.

William Mulready

A famous English genre painter.

William Walter Leake

American Civil War Confederate Army officer, Freemason, lawyer, county judge, and bank president.

English doctor convicted of a high-profile murder in the 19th century

William Banting

The famous British man invented the low-carbohydrate diet method.

William Drummond

English, Scottish and Russian military and statesman

William Lloyd Garrison

American abolitionist, publicist and poet

William Peter Blatty

Writer, screenwriter

Italian inventor and businessman

William Bullock

American inventor

American composer, musician and poet

Famous English landscape painter

British architect and artist

Composer of the Elizabethan era, one of the greatest English musicians

American geographer

William Craft Brumfield

American historian of Russian architecture, photographer, local historian

William Stanley Jevons

British economist, statistician and professor of logic and philosophy.

English clergyman, natural philosopher and physicist

William Congreve

English playwright

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

William Hazlitt

English journalist, essayist, theorist of Romanticism

American naval figure

Welsh judge and physicist

William John Codrington

English general, son of Edward Codrington.

William Tindale

English reformer, translator of the New Testament and Pentateuch

William la Mare

English Franciscan theologian

Well-known neo-Nazi, author of a sensational book (The Turner Diaries), creator of a major neo-Nazi organization in the United States

William Griffith

English physician, naturalist and botanist

William George Bonin

American serial killer

William Alexander Chilton

American songwriter, guitarist, singer and producer

English rear admiral and Arctic explorer

English writer and poet.

Founder of the medical equipment manufacturing company "Cook Group"

Scottish physician, chemist and agronomist.

English privateer

William Cunningham

English historian, founder of economic history

William Du Bois

American social activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian and writer.

William Bennett

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

William Baillie

Scottish commander, Covenanter

Entrepreneur, founder of the Internet portal "Internet portal NetEase"

William Wymark Jacobs

English writer, author of novels and short story collections

William Rondina

American designer

William Rocha Batista

Brazilian footballer, striker.