Top Celebrity Names Starting With Billy

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   Billy Bob Thornton

   Age 56 Male
   

   Actor, Screenwriter, Director, Musician

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   Billy Crystal

   Age 64 Male
   

   Actor, Writer, Comedian

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   William Edward "Billy" Crystal is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian, and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the critical and box office successes When Harry Met Sally... and City Slickers.… read more

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   Billy Ray Cyrus

   Age 50 Male
   

   Singer-songwriter, Actor, Film Producer

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   William "Billy" Ray Cyrus is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor and philanthropist, who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon. Having released twelve studio albums and forty-four singles since 1992, he is best known for his Number One single "Achy Breaky Heart", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia. It was also the best-selling single in the same country in 1992.… read more

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   Billy Joel

   Age 63 Male
   

   Singer, Songwriter, Pianist

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   William Martin "Billy" Joel is an American pianist, performer, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA. Joel had Top 40 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, achieving 33 Top 40 hits in the United States, all of which he wrote himself.… read more

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   Billy Crudup

   Age 43 Male
   

   Actor, Guitarist, Doctor

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   William Gaither "Billy" Crudup is an American actor of film and stage. He is well known for his roles as guitarist Russell Hammond in Almost Famous, Will Bloom in Big Fish, and Prince Ashitaka in Princess Mononoke. He also starred in the 2007 romantic comedy film Dedication, alongside Mandy Moore. In 2009, he appeared as Doctor Manhattan in the film Watchmen and as J. Edgar Hoover in the film Public Enemies.… read more

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   Billy Connolly

   Age 69 Male
   

   Comedian, Musician, Actor

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   William "Billy" Connolly, Jr. , CBE is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname 'The Big Yin' ('The Big One'). His first trade, in the early 1960s, was as a welder in the Glasgow shipyards, but he gave it up towards the end of the decade to pursue a career as a folk singer in the Humblebums and subsequently as a soloist.… read more

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   Billy Corgan

   Age 45 Male
   

   Author

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   William Patrick "Billy" Corgan, Jr. is an American musician, producer and occasional poet best known as the frontman and sole permanent member of The Smashing Pumpkins. Formed by Corgan and guitarist James Iha in Chicago, Illinois in 1987, the band quickly gained steam with the addition of bassist D'arcy Wretzky and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin.… read more

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   Billy Idol

   Age 56 Male
   

   Musician

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   William Michael Albert Broad, better known by his stage name Billy Idol, is an English rock musician. A member of the Bromley Contingent of Sex Pistols fans, Idol first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X. He then embarked on a successful solo career, aided by a series of stylish music videos, making him one of the first MTV stars. Idol continues to tour with guitarist Steve Stevens and has a worldwide fan base.… read more

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   Billy Gibbons

   Age 62 Male
   

   Musician, Actor and Car Customizer

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   William Frederick "Billy" Gibbons is an American musician, actor and car customizer, best known as the guitarist of the Texas blues-rock band ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs. Gibbons is known for playing his Gretsch Billy Bo guitar and his famous 1959 Gibson Les Paul guitar known as Pearly Gates. Gibbons has a bass vocal range, spanning E♭1 to E♭5, one of the widest ranges in rock.… read more

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    Billy Dee Williams

    Age 75 Male
    

    Actor and Writer

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    William December "Billy Dee" Williams, Jr. is an American actor, artist, singer, and writer. He is best known for playing Lando Calrissian in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.… read more

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    Billy Bragg

    Age 54 Male
    

    Singer, Musician

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    Stephen William Bragg, better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes. His music career has lasted more than 30 years.… read more

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    Billy Wilder

    1906 - 2002 Male
    

    Austrian-born, Jewish-american Journalist, Screenwriter, Film Director, and Producer

    
    

    Billy Wilder was an Austro-Hungarian born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people who have won Academy Awards as producer, director, and writer for the same film. Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin.… read more

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    Billy Preston

    1946 - 2006 Male
    

    Bandleader

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    William Everett "Billy" Preston was a musician who gained notoriety and fame, first as a session musician for the likes of Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Beatles, and later finding fame as a solo artist with hits such as "Space Race", "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Nothing from Nothing".… read more

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    Billy Thorpe

    1946 - 2007 Male
    

    Singer, Musician, Songwriter

    
    

    William Richard "Billy" Thorpe, AM was a renowned English-born Australian pop / rock singer-songwriter and musician. As lead singer of his band Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, he had success in the 1960s with "Blue Day", "Poison Ivy", "Over the Rainbow", "Sick and Tired", and "Mashed Potato"; and in the 1970s with "Most People I Know Think That I'm Crazy".… read more

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    Billy Wright

    1960 - 1997 Male
    

    Ulster Loyalist Force Brigadier

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    William Stephen "Billy" Wright was a prominent Ulster loyalist during the period of violent ethno-political conflict known as "The Troubles". He joined the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in 1975 and became commander of its Mid-Ulster Brigade in the early 1990s. According to the Northern Ireland security forces, he directed up to 20 sectarian killings, although he was never convicted in connection with any killing.… read more

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    Billy the Kid

    1859 - 1881 Male
    

    Cowboy, Gambler, Cattle Rustler, and Outlaw

    
    

    William H. Bonney est. November 23, 1859 – c. July 14, 1881, better known as Billy the Kid but also known as Henry Antrim, was a 19th-century American gunman who participated in the Lincoln County War and became a frontier outlaw in the West. According to legend, he killed 21 men, but he is generally accepted to have killed between four and nine.… read more

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    Billy Childish

    Age 52 Male
    

    Singer, Poet, Producer

    
    

    Billy Childish is an English artist, painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist.

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    Billy Taylor

    1921 - 2010 Male
    

    Pianist, Composer, Musician

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    Billy Taylor was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and since 1994, he was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Taylor was a Jazz activist. He sat on the Honorary Founders Board of The Jazz Foundation of America.… read more

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    Billy Pierce

    Age 85 Male
    

    Baseball Player

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    Walter William Pierce is a former left-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played most of his career for the Chicago White Sox. He was the team's star pitcher between 1952 and 1961, and was named the American League's top pitcher in 1956 and 1957 after being runner-up in both 1953 and 1955.… read more

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    Billy Crawford

    Age 30 Male
    

    Singer, Musician, Songwriter

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    Billy Joe Crawford is a Filipino-American recording artist, singer-songwriter and philanthropist. Crawford is a Bilingual Filipino Singer. His second language is English and he is conversational in French. Crawford not only lived in New York City, USA, but also in Paris for five years and for one year in London. He lived in Los Angeles in 2007. In 2008, he went to Manila to host Pinoy Dream Academy's uberture.… read more

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    Billy West

    Age 62 Male
    

    Voice Actor

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    William Richard "Billy" West is an American voice actor. Born in Detroit but raised in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Billy launched his career in the early 1980s performing daily comedic routines on Boston's WBCN. He left the radio station to work on the short-lived revival of Beany and Cecil.… read more

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    Billy Burnette

    Age 59 Male
    

    Guitarist, Songwriter, Singer

    
    

    William Beau "Billy" Burnette III is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter who was part of the band Fleetwood Mac from 1987 to 1995. Burnette also had a brief career in acting.

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    Billy Graham

    Age 93 Male
    

    Christianity

    
    

    William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr. is an American evangelical Christian evangelist, who rose to celebrity status as his sermons were broadcast on radio and television. Graham has been spiritual adviser to several United States Presidents and has met with 12, dating back to Harry S. Truman. He has repeatedly been on Gallup's most admired man and woman poll, and is listed at number seven for the 20th century (taken in 1999).… read more

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    Billy Squier

    Age 62 Male
    

    Musician

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    William Haislip "Billy" Squier is an American rock musician. Squier had a string of arena rock hits in the 1980s. He is best known for the song "The Stroke" on his 1981 album release Don't Say No. Other hits include "In the Dark", "Rock Me Tonite", "Lonely Is the Night", "My Kinda Lover", "Everybody Wants You", "All Night Long" and "Emotions in Motion".… read more

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    Billy Sunday

    1862 - 1935 Male
    

    Baseball Player, Outfielder, Evangelist

    
    

    William Ashley "Billy" Sunday was an American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century. Born into poverty in Iowa, Sunday spent some years at the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home before working at odd jobs and playing for local running and baseball teams.… read more