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First name William
December 4, 2025 to December 24, 2025

William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet (1564–1616)

Top 500 #201 Initials WS #1 Hamlet

William Rush

British actor

Top 500 #379 Initials WR #2

William the Conqueror

King of England | Duke of Normandy (c. 1028-1087)

Initials WC #2

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

British politician (1779–1848)

Initials WM #2

William McKinley

president of the United States from 1897 to 1901

Initials WM #3

William Shatner

Canadian actor (born 1931)

Initials WS #4

William H. Macy

American actor

Initials WM #4 The Running Man

William Henry Harrison

president of the United States in 1841

Initials WH #5

William Wallace

Scottish knight and leading figure in the First War of Scottish Independence

Initials WW #5

#10

William Howard Taft

president of the United States from 1909 to 1913

Initials WT #1

#11

William Fichtner

American actor (born 1956)

Initials WF #2 Heat

#12

William Hurt

American actor (1950–2022)

Initials WH #6 Avengers: Endgame

#13

William Calley

US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai | Vietnam (1943–2024)

Initials WC #4

#14

William Holden

American actor (1918–1981)

Initials WH #8

#15

William S. Burroughs

American novelist | short story writer | essayist | painter | and spoken word performer (1914–1997)

Initials WB #4 Naked Lunch

#16

William Moseley

English actor (born 1987)

Initials WM #9 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion | the Witch and the Wardrobe

#17

William Faulkner

American writer (1897-1962)

Initials WF #4 The Sound and the Fury

#18

William Tecumseh Sherman

United States Army general (1820–1891)

Initials WS #10

#19

William Blake

English poet and artist (1757–1827)

Initials WB #8 And did those feet in ancient time

#20

William F. Buckley Jr.

American public intellectual | conservative author and political commentator (1925–2008)

Initials WJ #4

#21

William Atticus Parker

American filmmaker and actor

Initials WP #4

#22

William Hickey

American actor (1927–1997)

Initials WH #10 National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

#23

William Randolph Hearst

American newspaper publisher (1863–1951)

Initials WH #13

#24

William Perry

American football player (born 1962)

Initials WP #6

#25

William Baldwin

American actor | producer | and writer (born 1963)

Initials WB #10

#26

William Goldman

American novelist | screenwriter and playwright

Initials WG #5 The Princess Bride

#27

William Sadler

American actor

Initials WS #15 The Shawshank Redemption

#28

William Roache

English actor

Initials WR #5

#29

William Daniels

American actor (born 1927)

Initials WD #6 The Blue Lagoon

#30

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke

Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman (1146-1219)

Initials WP #8

#31

William Patrick Stuart-Houston

Half-nephew of Adolf Hitler

Initials WS #16

#32

William Katt

American actor and musician (born 1951)

Initials WK #5 Carrie

#33

William Saliba

French footballer (born 2001)

Initials WS #17

#34

William Butler Yeats

Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)

Initials WY #1

#35

William Clay Ford, Sr.

American football executive

Initials WS #20

#36

William Joyce

British fascist and propaganda broadcaster (1906-1946)

Initials WJ #6

#37

William Regal

British professional wrestler

Initials WR #7

#38

William Franklin

American soldier | attorney | and colonial administrator

Initials WF #6

#39

William Atherton

American actor

Initials WA #6 Die Hard

#40

William Powell

American actor (1892–1984)

Initials WP #10

#41

William O'Connor

Irish darts player

Initials WO #3

#42

William Mapother

American actor

Initials WM #18 Magnolia

#43

William Earl Brown

American actor

Initials WB #13 Vanilla Sky

#44

William Wordsworth

English Romantic poet (1770–1850)

Initials WW #12

#45

William Compton

American football player (born 1989)

Initials WC #11

#46

William Morris

British textile artist | author | and socialist (1834–1896)

Initials WM #19

#47

William Jennings Bryan

American politician (1860–1925)

Initials WB #15

#48

William Friedkin

American director and producer (1935–2023)

Initials WF #7

#49

William Zabka

American actor

Initials WZ #3

#50

William Halsey Jr.

United States admiral (1882–1959)

Initials WJ #9

#51

William Frawley

American actor (1887–1966)

Initials WF #8 Miracle on 34th Street

#52

William Poole

American boxer and a founder of the street gang the Bowery Boys (1821–1855)

Initials WP #12

#53

William Ewart Gladstone

British Liberal prime minister (1809–1898)

Initials WG #8

#54

William Pitt the Younger

British statesman (1759–1806)

Initials WY #2

#55

William Gibson

American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and founder of the cyberpunk subgenre

Initials WG #9 Neuromancer

#56

William Devane

American actor

Initials WD #7 Interstellar

#57

William Jackson Harper

American actor

Initials WH #17 Midsommar

#58

William Hopper

American actor (1915–1970)

Initials WH #19

#59

William Hanna

American animator (1910–2001)

Initials WH #20

#60

William Devino

American mobster (1921-1970)

Initials WD #8

#61

William Petersen

American actor

Initials WP #13

#62

William James Sidis

American child prodigy (1898-1944)

Initials WS #27

#63

William Somerset Maugham

English playwright and author (1874–1965)

Initials WM #21 Of Human Bondage

#64

William Clay Ford

American businessman

Initials WF #11

#65

William Wilberforce

English politician and abolitionist (1759–1833)

Initials WW #16

#66

William Forsythe

American actor

Initials WF #12 Once Upon a Time in America

#67

William Troost-Ekong

Nigerian association football player

Initials WT #2

#68

William Magear Tweed

American politician (1823-1878)

Initials WT #3

#69

William James

American philosopher | psychologist | and pragmatist (1842–1910)

Initials WJ #11

#70

William Ruto

President of Kenya since 2022

Initials WR #11

#71

William Hogarth

English painter | printmaker | pictorial satirist | social critic | and editorial cartoonist

Initials WH #25

#72

William Christopher

American actor (1932-2016)

Initials WC #17

#73

William H. McRaven

United States admiral

Initials WM #25

#74

William Abadie

French actor

Initials WA #12 Greenland: Migration

#75

William Davies

English screenwriter and film producer

Initials WD #10

#76

William Conrad

American World War II fighter pilot | actor | producer | and director (1920-1994)

Initials WC #18

#77

William Penn

English real estate entrepreneur | philosopher | early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)

Initials WP #17

#78

William Bonin

American serial killer (1947–1996)

Initials WB #25

#79

William Rehnquist

chief justice of the United States from 1986 to 2005

Initials WR #14

#80

William Tyndale

English Bible translator and reformer

Initials WT #4

#81

William H. Seward

American lawyer and politician (1801-1872)

Initials WS #31

#82

William Windom

American actor (1923–2012)

Initials WW #20 Miracle on 34th Street

#83

William Westmoreland

United States Army general (1914-2005)

Initials WW #21

#84

William Wyler

Swiss-German-American director and producer (1902–1981)

Initials WW #22

#85

William Makepeace Thackeray

novelist

Initials WT #5 Vanity Fair

#86

William Henry Vanderbilt

American businessman and philanthropist (1821–1885)

Initials WV #3

#87

William Golding

British novelist | poet | playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate

Initials WG #15 Lord of the Flies

#88

William Smith

American actor (1933-2021)

Initials WS #34 The Outsiders

#89

William Kristol

American writer

Initials WK #10

#90

William Lyon Mackenzie King

10th Prime Minister of Canada (1874–1950)

Initials WK #11

#91

William F. Garrison

United States Army officer

Initials WG #17

#92

William Luther Pierce

American white supremacist and neo-Nazi (1933–2002)

Initials WP #21 The Turner Diaries

#93

William Hartnell

English actor (1908-1975)

Initials WH #31

#94

William Kidd

Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean

Initials WK #12

#95

William DuVall

American musician

Initials WD #13

#96

William Hale

American murderer (1874–1962)

Initials WH #32

#97

William Stirling

British Army officer of the Special Air Service

Initials WS #37

#98

William Asher

American director | producer | screenwriter (1921-2012)

Initials WA #14

#99

William III of the Netherlands

King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1817–1890)

Initials WN #8

#100

William O. Douglas

US Supreme Court justice from 1939 to 1975

Initials WD #14

#101

William Bligh

officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator (1754-1817)

Initials WB #31

#102

William T. Anderson

American guerrilla fighter

Initials WA #15

#103

William Godwin

English journalist | political philosopher and novelist

Initials WG #19

#104

William Clark

American explorer | soldier | Indian agent | and territorial governor

Initials WC #25

#105

William I of the Netherlands

King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg 1815–1840

Initials WN #9

#106

William D. Leahy

United States admiral | ambassador to France | Chief of Staff (1875-1959)

Initials WL #4

#107

William H. Gates, Sr.

American attorney and philanthropist (1925–2020)

Initials WS #40

#108

William Lloyd Garrison

American journalist

Initials WG #20

#109

William Quantrill

Confederate Army officer

Initials WQ #1

#110

William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe

British General in the American War of Independence

Initials WH #36

#111

William I, German Emperor

19th-century German Emperor and King of Prussia

Initials WE #3

#112

William Sanderson

American actor

Initials WS #42 Blade Runner

#113

William Hague

British politician (born 1961)

Initials WH #37

#114

William Close

American surgeon

Initials WC #27

#115

William Guarnere

United States Army paratrooper during World War II

Initials WG #21

#116

William Shockley

American physicist and inventor

Initials WS #44

#117

William McInnes

Australian actor

Initials WM #42

#118

William deVry

American actor

Initials WD #16

#119

William Rockefeller, Sr.

American con artist

Initials WS #45

#120

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

English statesman

Initials WB #38

#121

William Kissam Vanderbilt I

American railroad manager and horse breeder (1849–1920)

Initials WI #5

#122

William McMahon

Australian politician | 20th Prime Minister of Australia (1908–1988)

Initials WM #43

#123

William Gallas

French footballer

Initials WG #22

#124

William Jefferson Blythe, Jr.

birth father of 42nd U.S. President Bill Clinton

Initials WJ #20

#125

William J. Fox

American military officer (1898–1970)

Initials WF #19

#126

William E. Woods

Hawaii gay rights activist

Initials WW #27

#127

William of Ockham

English medieval Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher and theologian

Initials WO #9

#128

William L. Shirer

American journalist (1904–1993)

Initials WS #48

#129

William Chomsky

Hebrew grammarian | father of Noam

Initials WC #31

#130

William Levy

Cuban actor

Initials WL #5

#131

William Lee Scott

American actor

Initials WS #51 Gattaca

#132

William Averell Harriman

American businessman | politician and diplomat

Initials WH #43

#133

William Chan

Hong Kong singer

Initials WC #32

#134

William Kennedy Smith

American physician

Initials WS #53

#135

William M. Branham

American Christian minister

Initials WB #44

#136

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

British politician

Initials WC #33

#137

William Mulholland

Builder of the Los Angeles Aqueduct

Initials WM #45

#138

William R. Moses

actor

Initials WM #46

#139

William Schallert

actor from the United States

Initials WS #55 Gremlins

#140

William the Lion

King of the Scots from 1165 to 1214

Initials WL #7

#141

William Walker

American filibuster

Initials WW #31

#142

William Lane Craig

American Christian apologist and evangelist

Initials WC #34

#143

William B. Davis

Canadian actor

Initials WD #18

#144

William C. Durant

American businessman

Initials WD #19

#145

William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire

British aristocrat and politician

Initials WD #21

#146

William Wallace Lincoln

third son of Abraham Lincoln

Initials WL #8

#147

William Herschel

German-born British astronomer | technical expert | and composer

Initials WH #45

#148

William Newsom

American judge

Initials WN #12

#149

William Heirens

American criminal (1928–2012)

Initials WH #46

#150

William J. Donovan

United States Army General | Medal of Honor recipient | and civil servant

Initials WD #23

#151

William R. King

American politician

Initials WK #19

#152

William Nylander Altelius

Canadian-Swedish ice hockey player

Initials WA #19

#153

William Cohen

American politician

Initials WC #35

#154

William McMaster Murdoch

British sailor (1873–1912)

Initials WM #49

#155

William S. Burroughs, Jr.

American writer

Initials WJ #23

#156

William Moulton Marston

American psychologist | lawyer | inventor and comic book writer

Initials WM #50

#157

William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington

British photographer

Initials WB #53

#158

William Stanford Davis

American actor

Initials WD #26

#159

William Peter Blatty

American writer and filmmaker (1928-2017)

Initials WB #55 The Exorcist

#160

William Brocius

gunman | rustler | outlaw

Initials WB #56

#161

William Carlos Williams

American poet

Initials WW #36

#162

William Francis Buckley

United States Army officer and the CIA station chief in Beirut

Initials WB #57

#163

William B. Travis

Alamo defender

Initials WT #8

#164

William Bendix

American actor (1906-1964)

Initials WB #58

#165

William Hung

American singer

Initials WH #51

#166

William Demarest

actor

Initials WD #27

#167

William Gaminara

British actor and screenwriter

Initials WG #24

#168

William Boyd

British writer

Initials WB #59

#169

William J. Tuttle

American make-up artist

Initials WT #9

#170

William Fox

American film producer

Initials WF #25

#171

William Caxton

English merchant | diplomat | writer and printer

Initials WC #41

#172

William Steig

American cartoonist | children's illustrator and writer

Initials WS #66 Shrek!

#173

William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington

English politician and soldier

Initials WH #56

#174

William Saroyan

American writer

Initials WS #69

#175

William Colby

American intelligence agent

Initials WC #43

#176

William S. Paley

American television executive

Initials WP #28

#177

William Tracy

American actor

Initials WT #11

#178

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

Former Governor-General of Australia

Initials WS #72

#179

William Kamkwamba

Malawian inventor and author

Initials WK #21

#180

William Wesley Peters

American architect

Initials WP #29

#181

William Talman

American actor

Initials WT #12

#182

William Goebel

Governor of Kentucky; American politician

Initials WG #27

#183

William David Chappelle III

American voice and music professor

Initials WI #7

#184

William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor

English businessman and politician

Initials WA #23

#185

William Redfield

American actor

Initials WR #28 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

#186

William Desmond Taylor

Irish-American film director | actor and murder victim

Initials WT #14

#187

William Rees-Mogg

former editor of The Times (1928-2012)

Initials WR #31

#188

William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire

British noble

Initials WD #29

#189

William Russ

actor | television director

Initials WR #33 American History X

#190

William Harvey

English physician

Initials WH #62

#191

William Goyen

Novelist | short story writer | editor | teacher

Initials WG #29

#192

William McNamara

American actor

Initials WM #58

#193

William Wadsworth Hodkinson

american film executive

Initials WH #63

#194

William Paul Yarbrough

American-Mexican footballer

Initials WY #7

#195

William Brewster

Religious emigrant to North America and leader there

Initials WB #65

#196

William F. Farley

American business person

Initials WF #30

#197

William Lee Golden

American musician

Initials WG #30

#198

William J. Brennan

U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1956 to 1990

Initials WB #66

#199

William S. Sessions

American judge

Initials WS #80

#200

William Junior Pierce

American serial killer

Initials WP #32

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First name William
December 4, 2025 to December 24, 2025