First name William
#1
William Shakespeare English poet | playwright | and actor (1564–1616)
#2
William Shatner Canadian actor (born 1931)
#3
William Saliba French association football player
#4
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge senior grandson of Queen Elizabeth II | elder son of Charles | Prince of Wales | and Diana | Princess of Wales
#5
Willem Dafoe American actor (1955-)
#6
William Ruto Kenyan politician who has been Deputy President of Kenya since 2013
#7
William Holden American actor (1918-1981)
#8
Tom Hiddleston English actor (born 1981)
#9
William the Conqueror King of England | Duke of Normandy (c. 1028-1087)
#10
Billy Crudup American actor (born 1968)
#11
William Hurt American actor and filmmaker
#12
Liam Gallagher British singer
#13
William Wallace Scottish knight and leading figure in the First War of Scottish Independence
#14
William Howard Taft president of the United States from 1909 to 1913
#15
William Fichtner American actor
#16
William H. Macy American actor
#17
Bill Belichick American football coach (born 1952)
#18
William Henry Harrison president of the United States in 1841
#19
William McKinley president of the United States from 1897 to 1901
#20
Adam West American actor (1928-2017)
#21
Bill Goldberg American professional wrestler | kickboxer | actor | and football player (born 1966)
#22
William Baldwin American actor | producer | and writer
#23
Billy Graham American Christian evangelist (1918-2018)
#24
Sonny Landham American actor-politician (1941-2017)
#25
William Randolph Hearst American newspaper publisher (1863–1951)
#26
William Wordsworth English Romantic poet (1770–1850)
#27
William Blake English Romantic poet and artist (1757-1827)
#28
William Jackson Harper American actor
#29
Will Mellor English actor | singer and model
#30
William Mapother American actor
#31
William Daniels american actor
#32
Smokey Robinson American recording artist; R&B singer-songwriter and record producer
#33
William S. Burroughs American novelist | short story writer | essayist | painter | and spoken word performer (1914-1997)
#34
William Faulkner American writer (1897-1962)
#35
William Tecumseh Sherman American General | businessman | educator | and author
#36
Danny Ings English association football player
#37
William Moseley English actor (born 1987)
#38
William Butler Yeats Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
#39
William Hague British politician (born 1961)
#40
W.E.B. Du Bois American sociologist | historian | activist | philosopher | social critic | and writer
#41
William Devino American mobster (1921-1970)
#42
William James Sidis American child prodigy (1898-1944)
#43
William White former American football safety
#44
Billy Preston American musician whose work encompassed R&B | rock | soul | funk | and gospel (1946-2006)
#45
William Zabka actor | screenwriter | producer
#46
William Hanna American animator and cartoonist (1910–2001)
#47
William Katt American actor and comedian
#48
William Hopper American actor (1915-1970)
#49
James Fox English actor
#50
William Petersen American actor
#51
Dwight Schultz American actor
#52
William Powell American actor
#53
William Sadler American actor
#54
William Frawley actor (1887-1966)
#55
William F. Buckley, Jr. American conservative author and commentator (1925–2008)
#56
William Devane American actor
#57
William Friedkin American film director | producer and screenwriter
#58
William Colby American intelligence agent
#59
William Smith American actor (1933-2021)
#60
William Regal British professional wrestler
#61
William H. McRaven United States admiral
#62
Bo Hopkins American actor
#63
William Forsythe American actor
#64
William Christopher American actor (1932-2016)
#65
William Wilberforce English politician (1759-1833)
#66
William Levy American actor and model
#67
William Joyce British fascist and propaganda broadcaster (1906-1946)
#68
William Pitt the Younger British statesman (1759–1806)
#69
William Roache English actor
#70
Bootsy Collins American musician
#71
DJ Snake Algerian-French DJ
#72
William Morris English textile designer | poet | novelist | translator | and socialist activist (1834-1896)
#73
William James American philosopher | psychologist | and pragmatist
#74
William Somerset Maugham English playwright | novelist | short story writer (1874-1965)
#75
William Ewart Gladstone British statesman and Liberal politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1809-1898)
#76
William Carvalho Portuguese association football player
#77
William Compton American football linebacker
#78
Bill Fagerbakke American actor
#79
William Halsey Jr. United States admiral
#80
William Gibson American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and founder of the cyberpunk subgenre
#81
William Bonin American serial killer
#82
William Penn English real estate entrepreneur | philosopher | early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)
#83
William Conrad American World War II fighter pilot | actor | producer | and director (1920-1994)
#84
Bill Camp American actor
#85
O. Henry American short story writer
#86
William Rehnquist chief justice of the United States from 1986 to 2005
#87
William Jennings Bryan United States Secretary of State (1860-1925)
#88
William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire British aristocrat and politician
#89
William Clay Ford American businessman
#90
William Calley Convicted US-war criminal from the Vietnam War
#91
William Phelps Eno American businessman
#92
William Poole American boxer and a founder of the street gang the Bowery Boys
#93
William DuVall American musician
#94
William Kidd Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean
#95
Bill Browder American-born British businessman and political activist (born 1964)
#96
William Goldman American novelist | screenwriter and playwright
#97
Holly Johnson British artist | musician and writer
#98
William Etty British painter
#99
William Luther Pierce American white nationalist (1933-2002)
#100
Will Power Australian racecar driver
- #101 William Golding British novelist | poet | playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
- #102 William Henry Vanderbilt American businessman and philanthropist
- #103 William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne British Prime Minister | Whig statesman (1779-1848)
- #104 William Hartnell English actor (1908-1975)
- #105 William Wallace Lincoln third son of Abraham Lincoln
- #106 William Tyndale Bible translator and reformer from England
- #107 William Bligh officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator (1754-1817)
- #108 William R. Moses actor
- #109 Will Grigg association football player
- #110 William John Tell American rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist
- #111 William Perry All-American college football player | professional football player | defensive lineman
- #112 William Atherton American actor
- #113 William Wyler American film director | producer and screenwriter (1902-1981)
- #114 William Gao British actor | singer and model
- #115 William Kristol American writer
- #116 William M. Branham American Christian minister
- #117 William Mueller American professional wrestler
- #118 William Windom American actor
- #119 Count Basie American jazz musician | bandleader | and composer (1904-1984)
- #120 Don Omar Puerto Rican singer
- #121 William Gallas French footballer
- #122 Lai Ching-te Taiwanese politician
- #123 William Moulton Marston American psychologist | lawyer | inventor and comic book writer
- #124 William H. Seward American lawyer and politician (1801-1872)
- #125 William H. Gates, Sr. American attorney and philanthropist
- #126 William Hung American singer
- #127 William Makepeace Thackeray novelist
- #128 William H. Pitsenbarger United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient
- #129 William Rees-Mogg former editor of The Times (1928-2012)
- #130 Billy Sheehan American musician
- #131 William Russ actor | television director
- #132 William O. Douglas US Supreme Court justice from 1939 to 1975
- #133 William Asher Director | producer | screenwriter
- #134 William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman
- #135 William Cohen American politician
- #136 William Lyon Mackenzie King 10th Prime Minister of Canada (1874-1950)
- #137 Bill Shankly Scottish footballer and manager (1913-1981)
- #138 William Contreras Venezuelan baseball catcher
- #139 William Talman American actor
- #140 William Westmoreland United States Army general (1914-2005)
- #141 William Guarnere United States Army paratrooper during World War II
- #142 William McMaster Murdoch British sailor
- #143 William Demarest actor
- #144 W. Eugene Smith American photojournalist
- #145 William Brocius gunman | rustler | outlaw
- #146 William-Adolphe Bouguereau French academic painter (1825-1905)
- #147 William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley English statesman
- #148 William Patrick Stuart-Houston nephew of Adolf Hitler (1911-1987)
- #149 William Nygaard Norwegian publisher
- #150 William Schallert actor from the United States
- #151 William Quantrill Confederate Army officer
- #152 William McInnes Australian actor
- #153 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin British physicist and engineer (1824-1907)
- #154 William Franklin American soldier | attorney | and colonial administrator
- #155 William Magear Tweed American politician (1823-1878)
- #156 William Herschel German-born British astronomer | technical expert | and composer
- #157 William Earl Brown American actor
- #158 Kyle Carpenter American Medal of Honor recipient
- #159 William D. Leahy United States admiral | ambassador to France | Chief of Staff (1875-1959)
- #160 William Sanderson American character actor
- #161 William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire British noble
- #162 William Packer American film producer
- #163 Billy Mitchell United States Army general during World War I
- #164 William Gaunt English actor
- #165 Fish Scottish singer | lyricist and occasional actor
- #166 William Averell Harriman American businessman | politician and diplomat
- #167 William J. Donovan United States Army General | Medal of Honor recipient | and civil servant
- #168 William H. Davis American educator and school administrator
- #169 William Clay Ford, Sr. American football executive
- #170 Nick Calathes Greek-American basketball player | guard
- #171 William E. Conway, Jr. American businessman
- #172 Bill Elliott American racecar driver and team owner
- #173 William Bendix American actor (1906-1964)
- #174 William Nicholson British screenwriter | playwright and novelist
- #175 Ernie Harwell United States Marine
- #176 William Saroyan American writer
- #177 William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham British politician
- #178 Will Durant American historian | philosopher and writer (1885-1981)
- #179 Devil Anse Hatfield Patriarch of the Hatfield clan
- #180 Will Hughes English association football player
- #181 William Walker American filibuster
- #182 William of Ockham English medieval Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher and theologian
- #183 William F. Garrison United States Army officer
- #184 William Goldsmith American musician
- #185 William Kennedy Smith American physician
- #186 William Shockley American physicist and inventor
- #187 Will Muschamp American football player | coach
- #188 Bill Bulger politician in Massachusetts | US
- #189 Bill O'Brien American football player and coach
- #190 Dabo Swinney American college football player | college football coach
- #191 William S. Sessions American judge
- #192 William T. Anderson American guerrilla fighter
- #193 William B. Davis Canadian actor
- #194 William Desmond Taylor Irish-American film director | actor and murder victim
- #195 Bill Haslam Governor of Tennessee
- #196 William Marshall American actor | director | and opera singer
- #197 William IV of the United Kingdom King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover (1765-1837)
- #198 William Hogarth English painter | printmaker | pictorial satirist | social critic | and editorial cartoonist
- #199 W. Morgan Sheppard British actor
- #200 William H. Webster first Chairperson of the Homeland Security Advisory Council