Top Celebrity Names Starting With William

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   William Shatner

   Age 81 Male
   

   Actor

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   William Ewart Gladstone

   1809 - 1898 Male
   

   Politician and Prime Minister

   
   

   William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times (1868–1874, 1880–1885, February–July 1886 and 1892–1894), more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time. He had also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times (1853–1855, 1859–1866, 1873–1874, and 1880–1882).… read more

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   William Hague

   Age 51 Male
   

   Politician

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   William Jefferson Hague MP FRSL is the British Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State. He served as Leader of the Conservative Party from June 1997 to September 2001. In Parliament, he has represented the constituency of Richmond (Yorks) since 1989.… read more

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   William Rehnquist

   1924 - 2005 Male
   

   Politician, Lawyer, Chief Justice

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   William Hubbs Rehnquist was an American lawyer, jurist, and political figure who served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States and later as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States. Considered a conservative, Rehnquist favored a conception of federalism that emphasized the Tenth Amendment's reservation of powers to the states.… read more

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   William Breitbart

   Male
   

   Psychiatrist, Clinician, Educator

   
   

   William S. Breitbart, FAPM, is an American psychiatrist who is an international leader in the fields of Psychosomatic Medicine, Psycho-oncology, and Palliative Care. Dr. Breitbart, a renowned clinician, researcher, and educator, is the Chief of the Psychiatry Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.… read more

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   William Perry

   Age 84 Male
   

   Politician, Businessman, Engineer

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   William James Perry is an American businessman and engineer who was the United States Secretary of Defense from February 3, 1994, to January 23, 1997, under President Bill Clinton. He also served as Deputy Secretary of Defense (1993–1994) and Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (1977-1981). Perry is currently the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor at Stanford University, with a joint appointment in the School of Engineering.… read more

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   William McKinley

   1843 - 1901 Male
   

   Politician

   
   

   William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897 until his death. The third American president to be assassinated, McKinley led the nation to victory in the Spanish-American War, raised protective tariffs to promote American industry, and placed the nation on the gold standard in a rejection of inflationary proposals.… read more

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   William Hazlitt

   1778 - 1830 Male
   

   Writer

   
   

   William Hazlitt was an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as a grammarian and philosopher. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. Yet his work is currently little read and mostly out of print.… read more

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   William J. Jefferson

   Age 65 Male
   

   Convicted Felon and Former American Politician

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   William Jennings "Bill" Jefferson is a former American politician, and a published author from the U.S. state of Louisiana. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for nine terms from 1991 to 2009 as a member of the Democratic Party. He represented, which includes much of the greater New Orleans area. He was Louisiana's first black congressman since the end of Reconstruction.… read more

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    William Flynn Martin

    Age 61 Male
    

    Economist, Politician, Educator

    
    

    William Flynn Martin is an American energy economist, educator and international diplomat. Martin served as Special Assistant to President Reagan for National Security Affairs, Executive Secretary of the National Security Council in the West Wing of the White House and Deputy Secretary of the Department of Energy during the Ronald Reagan Reagan administration.… read more

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    William the Conqueror

    1028 - 1087 Male
    

    King of England

    
    

    William I, also known as William the Conqueror or William the Bastard,Template:Efn was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087. He was also Duke of Normandy from 3 July 1035 until his death, under the name of William II. Descended from Viking raiders, William faced a number of difficulties when he became duke at the age of 7 or 8, but by 1060 he had established his hold over Normandy.… read more

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    William Gallas

    Age 34 Male
    

    Footballer

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    William Eric Gallas is a French footballer who plays for Tottenham Hotspur. Gallas began his career in France, before being signed by English club Chelsea in 2001. He transferred to rivals Arsenal as part of an exchange deal in 2006. While his career has been marked by both individual and team successes – including Premier League titles in 2005 and 2006 – he has also encountered controversy as a consequence of his on-field behaviour and friction with other personnel.… read more

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    William Cohen

    Age 71 Male
    

    Congressman, Politician, Senator

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    William Sebastian Cohen is an author and American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. A Republican, Cohen served as both a member of the United States House of Representatives and Senate, and as Secretary of Defense (1997–2001) under Democratic President Bill Clinton.… read more

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    William Beebe

    1877 - 1962 Male
    

    Ornithologist, Marine Biologist, Entomologist, and Explorer

    
    
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    William Tecumseh Sherman

    1820 - 1891 Male
    

    General, Businessman, Educator, and Author.

    
    

    William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States. Military historian B. H.… read more

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    William Shakespeare

    1564 - 1616 Male
    

    Poet and Playwright

    
    

    William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems.… read more

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    William J. Hughes

    Age 79 Male
    

    Member of the United States House of Representatives From New Jersey

    
    

    William John "Bill" Hughes served as a Democratic Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1995, representing New Jersey’s Second Congressional District which includes major portions of the Jersey Shore and Pine Barrens, the cities of Vineland and Atlantic City, and the counties of Salem, Cumberland, Atlantic, Cape May and part of Gloucester.… read more

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    William Howard Hoople

    1868 - 1922 Male
    

    Founder, Organizer, Minister

    
    

    William Howard Hoople was a prominent leader of the American Holiness movement; the co-founder of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America, one of the antecedent groups that merged to create the Church of the Nazarene; rescue mission organizer; an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene, and first superintendent of the New York District of the Church of the Nazarene; YMCA worker; baritone gospel singer; successful businessman and investor; and inventor.… read more

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    William Donald Schaefer

    1921 - 2011 Male
    

    Americna Politician

    
    

    William Donald Schaefer was an American politician who served in public office for 50 years at both the state and local level in Maryland. A Democrat, he was mayor of Baltimore from 1971 to 1987, the 58th Governor of Maryland from January 21, 1987 to January 18, 1995, and the Comptroller of Maryland from January 20, 1999 to January 17, 2007. On September 12, 2006, Schaefer was defeated in his reelection bid for Comptroller by Maryland Delegate Peter Franchot in the Democratic Party primary.… read more

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    William S. Burroughs

    1914 - 1997 Male
    

    Novelist, Essayist

    
    

    William Seward Burroughs II was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th century. " His influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature.… read more

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    William Heirens

    Age 83 Male
    

    Convicted Serial Killer

    
    

    William George Heirens is a convicted American serial killer who confessed to three murders in 1946. Heirens has been called The Lipstick Killer due to a notorious message scrawled in lipstick at a crime scene. He is reputedly the world's longest serving prisoner, having thus far spent 65 years in prison. He is currently incarcerated at the Dixon Correctional Center medium security prison in Dixon, Illinois (Inmate No. C-06103).… read more

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    William Wilberforce

    1759 - 1833 Male
    

    Politician, Abolitionist, Philanthropist

    
    

    William Wilberforce was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becoming the independent Member of Parliament for Yorkshire (1784–1812). In 1785, he underwent a conversion experience and became an evangelical Christian, resulting in major changes to his lifestyle and a lifelong concern for reform.… read more

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    William Gibson

    Age 64 Male
    

    Speculative Fiction Author, Cyberpunk Pioneer

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    William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982) and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.… read more

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    William Howard Taft

    1857 - 1930 Male
    

    Politician, Lawyer, Jurist

    
    

    William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930). He is the only person to have served in both offices, and along with James Polk, the only president to have also headed another branch of the federal government. Before becoming President, Taft was selected to serve on the Ohio Supreme Court in 1887.… read more

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    William Henry Harrison

    1773 - 1841 Male
    

    Politician, Military Leader

    
    

    William Henry Harrison was the ninth President of the United States (1841), an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office. He was 68 years, 23 days old when elected, the oldest president elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980, and last President to be born before the United States Declaration of Independence.… read more