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First name William
April 23, 2025 to May 13, 2025

William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet (1564–1616)

Top 500 #200 Initials WS #1 Romeo and Juliet

William Pakenham

Royal Navy admiral (1861-1933)

Initials WP #2

William Shatner

Canadian actor (born 1931)

Initials WS #4

William the Conqueror

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

Initials WC #3

William D. Leahy

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

Initials WL #1

William McKinley

president of the United States from 1897 to 1901

Initials WM #3

William Hurt

American actor (1950–2022)

Initials WH #3 Black Widow

William Henry Harrison

president of the United States in 1841

Initials WH #4

William I. Mott

American horse trainer

Initials WM #5

#10

William Howard Taft

president of the United States from 1909 to 1913

Initials WT #1

#11

William Calley

American army officer convicted for leading massacre at My Lai | Vietnam (1943–2024)

Initials WC #5

#12

William H. Macy

American actor

Initials WM #7 The Running Man

#13

William Nylander Altelius

Canadian-Swedish ice hockey player

Initials WA #4

#14

William Wallace

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

Initials WW #3

#15

William S. Burroughs

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

Initials WB #6 Naked Lunch

#16

William Westmoreland

United States Army general (1914-2005)

Initials WW #4

#17

William Baldwin

American actor | producer | and writer

Initials WB #8

#18

William Fichtner

American actor

Initials WF #4 The Dark Knight

#19

William Saliba

French footballer (born 2001)

Initials WS #10

#20

William Holden

American actor (1918–1981)

Initials WH #9 Sunset Boulevard

#21

William Blake

English poet and artist (1757–1827)

Initials WB #10 And did those feet in ancient time

#22

William Roache

English actor

Initials WR #4

#23

William LeMessurier

American structural engineer (1926-2007)

Initials WL #3

#24

William Wilberforce

English politician and abolitionist (1759–1833)

Initials WW #7

#25

William Tecumseh Sherman

United States Army general (1820–1891)

Initials WS #12

#26

William Faulkner

American writer (1897-1962)

Initials WF #5 The Sound and the Fury

#27

William Randolph Hearst

American newspaper publisher (1863–1951)

Initials WH #12

#28

William Zabka

American actor

Initials WZ #3 The Karate Kid

#29

William Mapother

American actor

Initials WM #13 Minority Report

#30

William Wordsworth

English Romantic poet (1770–1850)

Initials WW #10

#31

William Lyon Mackenzie King

10th Prime Minister of Canada (1874–1950)

Initials WK #5

#32

William Osula

Danish footballer

Initials WO #1

#33

William Daniels

American actor (born 1927)

Initials WD #4 The Blue Lagoon

#34

William Butler Yeats

Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)

Initials WY #1

#35

William Goh

Singaporean bishop

Initials WG #8

#36

William Joyce

British fascist and propaganda broadcaster (1906-1946)

Initials WJ #6

#37

William H. McRaven

United States admiral

Initials WM #18

#38

William Luther Pierce

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

Initials WP #9 The Turner Diaries

#39

William Katt

American actor and musician (born 1951)

Initials WK #8 The Man from Earth

#40

William I, German Emperor

19th-century German Emperor and King of Prussia

Initials WE #4

#41

William Friedkin

American director and producer (1935–2023)

Initials WF #7

#42

William Devane

American actor

Initials WD #6 Interstellar

#43

William F. Buckley Jr.

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

Initials WJ #7

#44

William Morris

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

Initials WM #20

#45

William Jennings Bryan

American politician (1860–1925)

Initials WB #20

#46

William Moseley

English actor (born 1987)

Initials WM #21

#47

William Patrick Stuart-Houston

Half-nephew of Adolf Hitler (1911-1987)

Initials WS #20

#48

William Petersen

American actor

Initials WP #10

#49

William Sadler

American actor

Initials WS #21 The Shawshank Redemption

#50

William Rehnquist

chief justice of the United States from 1986 to 2005

Initials WR #8

#51

William Stirling

British Army officer of the Special Air Service

Initials WS #22

#52

William Tyndale

English Bible translator and reformer

Initials WT #2

#53

William Somerset Maugham

English playwright and author (1874–1965)

Initials WM #22 Of Human Bondage

#54

William Devino

American mobster (1921-1970)

Initials WD #8

#55

William Frawley

American actor (1887–1966)

Initials WF #8

#56

William Perry

American football player (born 1962)

Initials WP #11

#57

William Compton

American football player (born 1989)

Initials WC #11

#58

William Ewart Gladstone

British Liberal prime minister (1809–1898)

Initials WG #12

#59

William Hopper

American actor (1915–1970)

Initials WH #18

#60

William Pitt the Younger

British statesman (1759–1806)

Initials WY #2

#61

William Kristol

American writer

Initials WK #11

#62

William Bonin

American serial killer

Initials WB #22

#63

William Penn

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

Initials WP #13

#64

William Conrad

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

Initials WC #12

#65

William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire

British aristocrat and politician

Initials WD #10

#66

William Powell

American actor

Initials WP #14

#67

William Gibson

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

Initials WG #13 Neuromancer

#68

William James

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

Initials WJ #10

#69

William Regal

British professional wrestler

Initials WR #10

#70

William Ruto

President of Kenya since 2022

Initials WR #12

#71

William Halsey Jr.

United States admiral (1882–1959)

Initials WJ #11

#72

William Forsythe

American actor

Initials WF #9 Once Upon a Time in America

#73

William McMahon

Australian politician | 20th Prime Minister of Australia

Initials WM #25

#74

William Bligh

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

Initials WB #23

#75

William Hanna

American animator and cartoonist (1910–2001)

Initials WH #20

#76

William DuVall

American musician

Initials WD #11

#77

William Levy

Cuban actor

Initials WL #5

#78

William Poole

American boxer and a founder of the street gang the Bowery Boys

Initials WP #15

#79

William H. Seward

American lawyer and politician (1801-1872)

Initials WS #27

#80

William James Sidis

American child prodigy (1898-1944)

Initials WS #28

#81

William Christopher

American actor (1932-2016)

Initials WC #14

#82

William Jackson Harper

American actor

Initials WH #22 Midsommar

#83

William H. Gates, Sr.

American attorney and philanthropist

Top 500 #242 Initials WS #29

#84

William Hartnell

English actor (1908-1975)

Initials WH #23

#85

William Earl Brown

American actor

Initials WB #27 Draft Day

#86

William Asher

American director | producer | screenwriter (1921-2012)

Initials WA #10

#87

William Brocius

gunman | rustler | outlaw

Initials WB #28

#88

William Smith

American actor (1933-2021)

Initials WS #32 The Outsiders

#89

William Kidd

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

Initials WK #13

#90

William Barber II

civil rights leader from North Carolina

Initials WI #3

#91

William Clay Ford

American businessman

Initials WF #12

#92

William Atherton

American actor

Initials WA #12 Ghostbusters

#93

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke

Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman

Initials WP #17

#94

William Shockley

American physicist and inventor

Initials WS #37

#95

William McMaster Murdoch

British sailor (1873–1912)

Initials WM #30

#96

William M. Branham

American Christian minister

Initials WB #31

#97

William J. Brennan

U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1956 to 1990

Initials WB #32

#98

William Goldman

American novelist | screenwriter and playwright

Initials WG #15 The Prince

#99

William Magear Tweed

American politician (1823-1878)

Initials WT #6

#100

William Dudley Pelley

American political activist | screenwriter | and convicted fraudster

Initials WP #18

#101

William Golding

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

Initials WG #16 Lord of the Flies

#102

William I of the Netherlands

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

Initials WN #7

#103

William III of the Netherlands

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

Initials WN #8

#104

William Clark

American explorer | soldier | Indian agent | and territorial governor

Initials WC #19

#105

William K. Sessions III

American judge

Initials WI #4

#106

William Hague

British politician (born 1961)

Initials WH #28

#107

William Guarnere

United States Army paratrooper during World War II

Initials WG #18

#108

William Wyler

American film director | producer and screenwriter (1902-1981)

Initials WW #25

#109

William Wallace Lincoln

third son of Abraham Lincoln

Initials WL #7

#110

William Windom

American actor (1923–2012)

Initials WW #26

#111

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

British politician (1779–1848)

Initials WM #33

#112

William Makepeace Thackeray

novelist

Initials WT #7 Vanity Fair

#113

William Averell Harriman

American businessman | politician and diplomat

Initials WH #30

#114

William of Ockham

English medieval Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher and theologian

Initials WO #7

#115

William O. Douglas

US Supreme Court justice from 1939 to 1975

Initials WD #13

#116

William Colby

American intelligence agent

Initials WC #22

#117

William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire

British noble

Initials WD #14

#118

William Knox Schroeder

American shooting victim

Initials WS #42

#119

William Henry Vanderbilt

American businessman and philanthropist

Initials WV #3

#120

William Byron

American racecar driver

Initials WB #39

#121

William Quantrill

Confederate Army officer

Initials WQ #1

#122

William Walker

American filibuster

Initials WW #27

#123

William Schallert

actor from the United States

Initials WS #44

#124

William T. Anderson

American guerrilla fighter

Initials WA #16

#125

William Atticus Parker

American filmmaker and actor

Initials WP #25

#126

William Demarest

actor

Initials WD #20 It's a Mad | Mad | Mad | Mad World

#127

William Lloyd Garrison

American journalist

Initials WG #23

#128

William Sanderson

American actor

Initials WS #50 Blade Runner

#129

William Levitt

American real-estate developer widely credited as the father of modern American suburbia

Initials WL #9

#130

William Lane Craig

American Christian apologist and evangelist

Initials WC #30

#131

William Hickey

American actor (1927–1997)

Initials WH #35

#132

William Gallas

French footballer

Initials WG #24

#133

William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington

British photographer

Initials WB #50

#134

William Karlsson

Swedish ice hockey player

Initials WK #22

#135

William Carvalho

Portuguese association football player

Initials WC #32

#136

William F. Garrison

United States Army officer

Initials WG #25

#137

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

English statesman

Initials WB #52

#138

William Moulton Marston

American psychologist | lawyer | inventor and comic book writer

Initials WM #40

#139

William Carey

English Baptist missionary and a Particular Baptist minister

Initials WC #33

#140

William Cohen

American politician

Initials WC #34

#141

William Stanford Davis

American actor

Initials WD #21

#142

William Lee Golden

American musician

Initials WG #27

#143

William Franklin

American soldier | attorney | and colonial administrator

Initials WF #19

#144

William Clay Ford, Sr.

American football executive

Initials WS #56

#145

William H. Orrick, III

United States District Judge

Initials WI #7

#146

William C. Durant

American businessman

Initials WD #23

#147

William Caxton

English merchant | diplomat | writer and printer

Initials WC #40

#148

William Saroyan

American writer

Initials WS #60

#149

William Carlos Williams

American poet

Initials WW #37

#150

William Hogarth

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

Initials WH #39

#151

William J. Donovan

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

Initials WD #24

#152

William Ash

English actor

Initials WA #18

#153

William Herschel

German-born British astronomer | technical expert | and composer

Initials WH #41

#154

William Hung

American singer

Initials WH #42

#155

William S. Paley

American television executive

Initials WP #28

#156

William B. Davis

Canadian actor

Initials WD #26

#157

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

British politician

Initials WC #41

#158

William R. Moses

actor

Initials WM #45

#159

William L. Shirer

American journalist (1904–1993)

Initials WS #64

#160

William B. Travis

Alamo defender

Initials WT #9

#161

William R. King

American politician

Initials WK #24

#162

William Talman

American actor

Initials WT #10

#163

William Kamkwamba

Malawian inventor and author

Initials WK #25

#164

William McInnes

Australian actor

Initials WM #47

#165

William Contreras

Venezuelan baseball catcher

Initials WC #44

#166

William Russ

actor | television director

Initials WR #27 American History X

#167

William Gao

British actor | singer and model

Initials WG #29

#168

William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor

English businessman and politician

Initials WA #22

#169

William Bennett

American politician

Initials WB #58

#170

William Kissam Vanderbilt I

American railroad manager and horse breeder

Initials WI #9

#171

William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington

English politician and soldier

Initials WH #44

#172

William Lucking

American actor

Initials WL #13 Erin Brockovich

#173

William Mulholland

Builder of the Los Angeles Aqueduct

Initials WM #48

#174

William Boyd

British writer

Initials WB #59

#175

William Kennedy Smith

American physician

Initials WS #72

#176

William Peter Blatty

American writer and filmmaker (1928-2017)

Initials WB #60 The Exorcist

#177

William Rockefeller, Sr.

American con artist

Initials WS #73

#178

William Steig

American cartoonist | children's illustrator and writer

Initials WS #74 Shrek!

#179

William Godwin

English journalist | political philosopher and novelist

Initials WG #31

#180

William Rees-Mogg

former editor of The Times (1928-2012)

Initials WR #28

#181

William Heirens

American criminal (1928–2012)

Initials WH #48

#182

William Joseph Simmons

Ku Klux Klan founder

Initials WS #75

#183

William Buick

British jockey

Initials WB #61

#184

William Brewster

Religious emigrant to North America and leader there

Initials WB #63

#185

William S. Hart

actor | film director

Initials WH #53

#186

William Bendix

American actor (1906-1964)

Initials WB #66

#187

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

British politician

Initials WP #34

#188

William Orbit

English musician | composer and record producer

Initials WO #12

#189

William Chan

Hong Kong singer

Initials WC #51

#190

William Jefferson Blythe, Jr.

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

Initials WJ #32

#191

William Redington Hewlett

American electrical engineer | co-founder of Hewlett-Packard and businessman

Initials WH #54

#192

William Harrington Leahy

United States Navy Admiral

Initials WL #16

#193

William Wakefield Baum

Catholic cardinal

Initials WB #67

#194

William J. Bratton

American police officer

Initials WB #69

#195

William Anthony Donohue

President of the Catholic League

Initials WD #31

#196

William Hootkins

actor

Initials WH #56 Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope

#197

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

Former Governor-General of Australia

Initials WS #81

#198

William Kentridge

South African artist

Initials WK #28

#199

William Mueller

American professional wrestler

Initials WM #55

#200

William McNamara

American actor

Initials WM #56

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First name William
April 23, 2025 to May 13, 2025