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William Howard Taft
27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913 (1857–1930)
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William Wallace
Scottish knight and leading figure in the First War of Scottish Independence
Initials WW #4#11
William Francis Buckley
United States Army officer and the CIA station chief in Beirut
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William S. Burroughs
American novelist | short story writer | essayist | painter | and spoken word performer (1914–1997)
Initials WB #9
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William F. Buckley Jr.
American public intellectual | conservative author and political commentator (1925–2008)
Initials WJ #3#19
William Blake
English poet and artist (1757–1827)
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And did those feet in ancient time
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William Calley
US Army officer convicted for massacre at My Lai | Vietnam (1943–2024)
Initials WC #9
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William Kennedy Smith
American physician; younger son of Jean Kennedy Smith and Stephen Edward Smith
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William Golding
British novelist | poet | playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1911–1993)
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William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke
Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman (1146-1219)
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William Gibson
American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and founder of the cyberpunk subgenre
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Neuromancer
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William Somerset Maugham
English playwright and author (1874–1965)
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Of Human Bondage
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William Penn
English real estate entrepreneur | philosopher | early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)
Initials WP #11
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William Poole
American boxer and a founder of the street gang the Bowery Boys (1821–1855)
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William Bligh
officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator (1754-1817)
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William Moulton Marston
American psychologist | lawyer | inventor and comic book writer
Initials WM #28
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William Goldman
American novelist | screenwriter and playwright (1931-2018)
Initials WG #11
The Prince
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William Conrad
American World War II fighter pilot | actor | producer | and director (1920-1994)
Initials WC #18
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William Luther Pierce
American white supremacist and neo-Nazi (1933–2002)
Initials WP #16
The Turner Diaries
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William III of the Netherlands
King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1817–1890)
Initials WN #10#97
William Kidd
Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean
Initials WK #13
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William H. Gates, Sr.
American attorney and philanthropist (1925–2020)
Top 500 #488
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William I of the Netherlands
King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg 1815–1840
Initials WN #13#122
William Hogarth
English painter | printmaker | pictorial satirist | social critic | and editorial cartoonist
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William Clark
American explorer | soldier | Indian agent | and territorial governor
Initials WC #33#142
William of Ockham
English medieval Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher and theologian
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William McMahon
Australian politician | 20th Prime Minister of Australia (1908–1988)
Initials WM #38#145
William J. Donovan
United States Army General | Medal of Honor recipient | and civil servant
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William Kissam Vanderbilt I
American railroad manager and horse breeder (1849–1920)
Initials WI #6#155
William D. Leahy
United States admiral | ambassador to France | Chief of Staff (1875-1959)
Initials WL #10#173
William R. King
vice president of the United States from March to April 1853 (1786–1853)
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William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
British General in the American War of Independence
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