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 Cochran

American heldentenor singer

William Rufus King

American politician

William Clifford

English mathematician and philosopher.

English navigator

William Beaumont

US Army surgeon, gastroenterologist and physiologist.

Outstanding English ceramic artist.

American composer

English language composer, violinist and violist

William Coldstream

English realist artist and teacher

American composer, bluesman

William Barrett

British physicist

William Ellery Channing

American publicist and religious figure, one of the founders of American Unitarianism

William Friese-Greene

British photographer and inventor

William J. Tuttle

American make-up artist

William Cobbett

English historian, publicist and politician

William Melling

William Rondina

American designer

William John Macquorn Rankine

Scottish engineer and physicist

Scottish physicist

William Haywood

American radical labor leader

English historian

Prime Minister of Canada

William Shockley

American physicist and inventor originally from England

William George Bonin

American serial killer

American poet and journalist

William Dampier

English navigator

William Harrison

9th President of the USA

William Edward Boeing

American aircraft manufacturer, founder of an aircraft manufacturing company

William (Botsy) Collins

American musician, one of the founders of the “funk” movement in music

William Rowan Hamilton

Irish mathematician, theoretical mechanician, theoretical physicist

William Fleetwood

English preacher, Bishop of St Asaph and Ely

Flemish nobleman, pretender to the throne of the County of Flanders in 1119-1128

William Crabtree

An English astronomer and merchant of the early 17th century

William Ellsworth Robinson

American illusionist

William Spenser

Second Prince of Wales

American photographer

William Bruce Kinross

Scottish architect, one of the founders of Scottish Palladianism

William Starke Rosecrans

Union Army General

William Wakefield Baum

American Curial Cardinal

William MacDonald

William Degouve de Nuncques

Belgian landscape artist

American industrialist, entrepreneur, billionaire

Heir to a huge fortune and representative of the Hilton dynasty.

William (Bill) Browder

CEO and one of the founders of the Hermitage Fund

William Grenville

19th Prime Minister of Great Britain, in office 1806–1807

American criminal

William Ogilvie

Scottish professor and author of an essay on land reform

Talented UK artist.

American writer

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