United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)
William Henry Cynric Lloyd, Archdeacon of Durban was an Anglican clergyman.
William Least Heat-Moon, byname of William Trogdon (born August 27, 1939) is an American travel writer of English, Irish and Osage Nation ancestry. He is the author of a bestselling trilogy of topographical U.S. travel writing
William Law was an important figure in the early history of the Latter Day Saint movement, holding a position in the early church's First Presidency under Joseph Smith, Jr.
William Langland (ca. 1332 - ca. 1386) is the conjectured author of the 14th-century English dream-vision Piers Plowman
urban philsophy
William Moses Kunstler (July 7, 1919 - September 4, 1995) was an American self-described "radical lawyer" and civil rights activist
United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925)
English playwright remembered for his comedies (1670-1729)
William Carleton (20 February 1794, Prillisk, Clogher, Co. Tyrone - 30 January, 1869, Sandford, Co. Dublin) was an Irish novelist
Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr., USN, (October 30, 1882 - August 16, 1959) was a U.S. Naval officer and the commander of the United States Third Fleet during part of the Pacific War against Japan
United States printer (born in England) whose press produced the first American prayer book and the New York City's first newspaper (1663-1752)
William Baziotes (1912-1963) was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism
William Baker was an American lawyer and politician.
William Arthur Ward (1921 - 1994), author of Fountains of Faith is one of America's most quoted writers of inspirational maxims
United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914)
William Allen White (February 10, 1868 - January 31, 1944) was a renowned American newspaper editor, politician, and author
William Edward Adams was a footballer who played in The Football League for Walsall.
United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943)
William Adelbert Foster was a United States Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty" during World War II during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
United States painter (born in the Netherlands) who was a leading American exponent of abstract expressionism (1904-1997)
United States writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
Evangelist