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 Walter Leake

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

William Cochran

American heldentenor singer

William Rufus King

American politician

William Clifford

English mathematician and philosopher.

English navigator

Outstanding English ceramic artist.

American composer

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 Rondina

American designer

William John Macquorn Rankine

Scottish engineer and physicist

Scottish physicist

Prime Minister of Canada

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

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 MacDonald

American criminal

William Ogilvie

Scottish professor and author of an essay on land reform

Talented UK artist.

American writer

William Shepherd

English musician and composer

William Liddell

Football player

English statesman of the era of Elizabeth I

William Malmsberyiskiy

12th-century English historian from Wiltshire, South West England.

Soviet and French artist

William Lloyd Garrison

American abolitionist, publicist and poet

William Stewart Halsted

American surgeon

William Alexander

Scottish nobleman, poet

William IV Orange

Prince of Orange, Prince of Nassau-Dietz

William Beveridge

British economist, prominent progressive and social reformer

William Henry Seward

US Secretary of State

William E. Allen

William Hjortsberg

American writer and screenwriter

William Burroughs

American writer, godfather of the beat generation.

William Cruickshank

Canadian artist

William Y. W. Ripley

Union Army officer from Vermont during the American Civil War

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