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First name William
June 19, 2026

William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet (1564–1616)

Top 500 #299 Initials WS #2 Hamlet

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 McKinley

president of the United States from 1897 to 1901

Initials WM #1

William Saliba

French footballer (born 2001)

Initials WS #6

William Howard Taft

27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913 (1857–1930)

Initials WT #1

William H. Macy

American actor

Initials WM #2 The Running Man

William Fichtner

American actor (born 1956)

Initials WF #3 The Dark Knight

William Henry Harrison

president of the United States in 1841

Initials WH #5

#10

William Hurt

American actor (1950–2022)

Initials WH #6 Avengers: Endgame

#11

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke

Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman (1146-1219)

Initials WP #3

#12

William Wallace

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

Initials WW #4

#13

William Daniels

American actor (born 1927)

Initials WD #3 The Blue Lagoon

#14

William Osula

Danish footballer

Initials WO #1

#15

William Tecumseh Sherman

United States Army general (1820–1891)

Initials WS #13

#16

William Faulkner

American writer (1897-1962)

Initials WF #5 The Sound and the Fury

#17

William Holden

American actor (1918–1981)

Initials WH #8

#18

William Baldwin

American actor | producer | and writer (born 1963)

Initials WB #10

#19

William S. Burroughs

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

Initials WB #11 Naked Lunch

#20

William Randolph Hearst

American newspaper publisher (1863–1951)

Initials WH #12

#21

William Blake

English poet and artist (1757–1827)

Initials WB #12 And did those feet in ancient time

#22

William Earl Brown

American actor

Initials WB #13 There's Something About Mary

#23

William Golding

British novelist | poet | playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1911–1993)

Initials WG #6 Lord of the Flies

#24

William Roache

English actor

Initials WR #5

#25

William Butler Yeats

Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)

Initials WY #4 The Second Coming

#26

William Friedkin

American director and producer (1935–2023)

Initials WF #8

#27

William Powell

American actor (1892–1984)

Initials WP #5

#28

William F. Buckley Jr.

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

Initials WJ #5

#29

William Wordsworth

English Romantic poet (1770–1850)

Initials WW #9 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

#30

William Mapother

American actor

Initials WM #15 Minority Report

#31

William Katt

American actor and musician (born 1951)

Initials WK #5

#32

William Ewart Gladstone

British Liberal prime minister (1809–1898)

Initials WG #8

#33

William Pitt the Younger

British statesman (1759–1806)

Initials WY #5

#34

William Gallas

French footballer (born 1977)

Initials WG #9

#35

William Morris

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

Initials WM #16

#36

William Sadler

American actor (born 1950)

Initials WS #19 The Shawshank Redemption

#37

William Zabka

American actor

Initials WZ #4

#38

William James Sidis

American child prodigy (1898-1944)

Initials WS #20

#39

William Devane

American actor

Initials WD #7 Interstellar

#40

William Calley

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

Initials WC #12

#41

William Halsey Jr.

United States admiral (1882–1959)

Initials WJ #7

#42

William Petersen

American actor

Initials WP #9

#43

William Somerset Maugham

English playwright and author (1874–1965)

Initials WM #17 Of Human Bondage

#44

William Gibson

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

Initials WG #11 Neuromancer

#45

William Jennings Bryan

American politician (1860–1925)

Initials WB #19

#46

William Frawley

American actor (1887–1966)

Initials WF #10

#47

William Forsythe

American actor

Initials WF #11 Once Upon a Time in America

#48

William Penn

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

Initials WP #12

#49

William MacAskill

Scottish philosopher

Initials WM #20

#50

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

British politician (1779–1848)

Initials WM #21

#51

William John Tell

American rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist

Initials WT #3

#52

William Joyce

British fascist and propaganda broadcaster (1906-1946)

Initials WJ #10

#53

William H. McRaven

United States admiral

Initials WM #23

#54

William Stirling

British Army officer of the Special Air Service

Initials WS #23

#55

William Hopper

American actor (1915–1970)

Initials WH #19

#56

William Hanna

American animator (1910–2001)

Initials WH #20

#57

William Francis Buckley

United States Army officer and the CIA station chief in Beirut

Initials WB #22

#58

William James

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

Initials WJ #11

#59

William Atticus Parker

American filmmaker and actor

Initials WP #13

#60

William H. Seward

American lawyer and politician (1801-1872)

Initials WS #26

#61

William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong

English inventor | scientist | engineer | industrialist

Initials WA #7

#62

William Kidd

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

Initials WK #9

#63

William Guarnere

United States Army paratrooper during World War II

Initials WG #13

#64

William Rehnquist

chief justice of the United States from 1986 to 2005

Initials WR #12

#65

William Ruto

President of Kenya since 2022

Initials WR #13

#66

William Poole

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

Initials WP #14

#67

William Hague

British politician (born 1961)

Initials WH #21

#68

William Clark

American explorer | soldier | Indian agent | and territorial governor

Initials WC #15

#69

William Smith

American actor (1933-2021)

Initials WS #28 The Outsiders

#70

William Asher

American director | producer | screenwriter (1921-2012)

Initials WA #8

#71

William Wilberforce

English politician and abolitionist (1759–1833)

Initials WW #18

#72

William Devino

American mobster (1921-1970)

Initials WD #9

#73

William Westmoreland

United States Army general (1914-2005)

Initials WW #20

#74

William Regal

British professional wrestler

Initials WR #14

#75

William Kristol

American writer

Initials WK #10

#76

William Goldman

American novelist | screenwriter and playwright (1931-2018)

Initials WG #14 The Prince

#77

William D. Swenson

medal of Honor recipient and former U.S. Army captain

Initials WS #32

#78

William Conrad

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

Initials WC #17

#79

William Jackson Harper

American actor

Initials WH #22 Midsommar

#80

William Patrick Stuart-Houston

Half-nephew of Adolf Hitler

Initials WS #33

#81

William Makepeace Thackeray

novelist

Initials WT #4 Vanity Fair

#82

William Magear Tweed

American politician (1823-1878)

Initials WT #5

#83

William Karlsson

Swedish ice hockey player

Initials WK #12

#84

William III of the Netherlands

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

Initials WN #7

#85

William of Ockham

English medieval Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher and theologian

Initials WO #5

#86

William Moseley

English actor (born 1987)

Initials WM #29

#87

William Wallace Lincoln

third son of Abraham Lincoln

Initials WL #4

#88

William Lyon Mackenzie King

10th Prime Minister of Canada (1874–1950)

Initials WK #13

#89

William Luther Pierce

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

Initials WP #18 The Turner Diaries

#90

William Bonin

American serial killer (1947–1996)

Initials WB #29

#91

William S. Paley

American television executive

Initials WP #20

#92

William O. Douglas

US Supreme Court justice from 1939 to 1975

Initials WD #11

#93

William Knox D'Arcy

oil entrepreneur magnate | one of the founders of British Oil

Initials WD #12

#94

William Wyler

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

Initials WW #23

#95

William Windom

American actor (1923–2012)

Initials WW #25

#96

William Abadie

French actor

Initials WA #12 Greenland: Migration

#97

William I of the Netherlands

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

Initials WN #9

#98

William Hartnell

English actor (1908-1975)

Initials WH #27

#99

William Hickey

American actor (1927–1997)

Initials WH #29

#100

William Henry Vanderbilt

American businessman and philanthropist (1821–1885)

Initials WV #4

#101

William Christopher

American actor (1932-2016)

Initials WC #25

#102

William Sanderson

American actor

Initials WS #42 Blade Runner

#103

William Contreras

Venezuelan baseball catcher

Initials WC #27

#104

William DuVall

American musician

Initials WD #13

#105

William Atherton

American actor

Initials WA #14 Ghostbusters

#106

William Franklin

American soldier | attorney | and colonial administrator

Initials WF #17

#107

William Bligh

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

Initials WB #40

#108

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

British politician

Initials WC #32

#109

William Quantrill

Confederate Army officer

Initials WQ #1

#110

William Schallert

actor from the United States

Initials WS #45

#111

William Clay Ford

American businessman

Initials WF #18

#112

William Averell Harriman

American businessman | politician and diplomat

Initials WH #35

#113

William Byron

American racecar driver

Initials WB #44

#114

William Moulton Marston

American psychologist | lawyer | inventor and comic book writer

Initials WM #34

#115

William Lane Craig

American Christian apologist and evangelist

Initials WC #33

#116

William Shockley

American physicist and inventor

Initials WS #46

#117

William Peter Blatty

American writer and filmmaker (1928-2017)

Initials WB #46 The Exorcist The Exorcist

#118

William Leonard Pickard

writer and researcher

Initials WP #25

#119

William J. Donovan

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

Initials WD #14

#120

William R. King

vice president of the United States from March to April 1853 (1786–1853)

Initials WK #16

#121

William B. Davis

Canadian actor

Initials WD #15 Passengers

#122

William H. Gates, Sr.

American attorney and philanthropist (1925–2020)

Initials WS #48

#123

William Perry

American football player (born 1962)

Initials WP #26

#124

William Herschel

German-born British astronomer | technical expert | and composer

Initials WH #38

#125

William Kamkwamba

Malawian inventor and author

Initials WK #18

#126

William McMaster Murdoch

British sailor (1873–1912)

Initials WM #38

#127

William P. Foley II

Vinter | financial services and hospitality industry investor | professional sports team owner

Initials WI #5

#128

William T. Anderson

American guerrilla fighter

Initials WA #16

#129

William Rees-Mogg

former editor of The Times (1928-2012)

Initials WR #21

#130

William Stanford Davis

American actor

Initials WD #17

#131

William Walker

American filibuster

Initials WW #29

#132

William Brocius

gunman | rustler | outlaw

Initials WB #49

#133

William Kissam Vanderbilt I

American railroad manager and horse breeder (1849–1920)

Initials WI #7

#134

William Goldsmith

American musician

Initials WG #20

#135

William M. Branham

American Christian minister

Initials WB #51

#136

William Steig

American cartoonist | children's illustrator and writer

Initials WS #54 Shrek!

#137

William Greer

American Secret Service agent (1909–1985)

Initials WG #22

#138

William I, German Emperor

19th-century German Emperor and King of Prussia

Initials WE #6

#139

William Hale

American murderer (1874–1962)

Initials WH #40

#140

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

English statesman

Initials WB #55

#141

William Compton

American football player (born 1989)

Initials WC #37

#142

William Borah

American politician

Initials WB #56

#143

William Hogarth

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

Initials WH #42

#144

William Lloyd Garrison

American journalist

Initials WG #24

#145

William Wrigley, Jr. II

American businessman

Initials WI #8

#146

William B. Travis

Alamo defender

Initials WT #7

#147

William Colby

American intelligence agent (1920–1996)

Initials WC #38

#148

William Packer

American film producer

Initials WP #28

#149

William McMahon

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

Initials WM #41

#150

William Nylander Altelius

Canadian-Swedish ice hockey player

Initials WA #19

#151

William Kennedy Smith

American physician; younger son of Jean Kennedy Smith and Stephen Edward Smith

Initials WS #56

#152

William Salyers

American actor

Initials WS #58

#153

William Talman

American actor

Initials WT #8

#154

William Rockefeller, Sr.

American con artist

Initials WS #59

#155

William Levy

Cuban actor

Initials WL #7

#156

William R. Moses

actor

Initials WM #43

#157

William C. Durant

American businessman

Initials WD #21

#158

William Gates

American basketball player

Initials WG #26

#159

William Marshall

American actor | director | and opera singer

Initials WM #45

#160

William Bendix

American actor (1906-1964)

Initials WB #59

#161

William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe

British General in the American War of Independence

Initials WH #44

#162

William McNamara

American actor

Initials WM #46

#163

William F. Garrison

United States Army officer

Initials WG #27

#164

William H. Pitsenbarger

United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient

Initials WP #30

#165

William Wesley

is an American consultant for Creative Artists Agency.

Initials WW #35

#166

William D. Leahy

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

Initials WL #8

#167

William Saroyan

Armenian-American novelist | playwright | and short story writer (1908-1981)

Initials WS #64

#168

William Godwin

English journalist | political philosopher and novelist

Initials WG #28

#169

William Kunstler

American lawyer and civil rights activist (1919-1995)

Initials WK #21

#170

William Boyd

British writer

Initials WB #60 Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960

#171

William Dunlop

British motorcycle racer

Initials WD #24

#172

William Carlos Williams

American poet

Initials WW #36

#173

William Hung

American singer

Initials WH #45

#174

William the Lion

King of the Scots from 1165 to 1214

Initials WL #10

#175

William Glass

British army officer

Initials WG #29

#176

William Lee Scott

American actor

Initials WS #67 The Butterfly Effect

#177

William McInnes

Australian actor

Initials WM #50

#178

William Cohen

American politician

Initials WC #42

#179

William Demarest

actor

Initials WD #25

#180

William Russ

actor | television director

Initials WR #26 American History X

#181

William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington

British photographer

Initials WB #61

#182

William Clay Ford, Sr.

American football executive

Initials WS #72

#183

William L. Shirer

American journalist (1904–1993)

Initials WS #73

#184

William Heirens

American criminal (1928–2012)

Initials WH #48

#185

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

Former Governor-General of Australia

Initials WS #75

#186

William Newsom

American judge | father of Gavin Newsom

Initials WN #14

#187

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

British politician

Initials WP #33

#188

William Chan

Hong Kong singer

Initials WC #45

#189

William Gott

British Army general

Initials WG #31

#190

William Bufalino

American attorney

Initials WB #62

#191

William Orlando Darby

American World War II Army colonel

Initials WD #29

#192

William Jefferson Blythe, Jr.

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

Initials WJ #30

#193

William J. Brennan

U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1956 to 1990

Initials WB #63

#194

William Stewart Halsted

American surgeon

Initials WH #53

#195

William T. Vollmann

Novelist | short story writer | essayist

Initials WV #7

#196

William Gao

British actor | singer and model

Initials WG #32

#197

William Orbit

English musician | composer and record producer

Initials WO #10

#198

William Lucking

American actor

Initials WL #15 Erin Brockovich

#199

William Weld

American politician

Initials WW #43

#200

William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood

British Army general

Initials WB #66

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First name William
June 19, 2026