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Bill Doolin
Bill Doolin (William M. Doolin, 1858-1896), Oklahoma outlaw and leader of the Doolin Gang or Wild Bunch after the Dalton Gang's Coffeyville demise; captured by Tilghman 1896, killed by Heck Thomas posse near Lawson.
Bill Driscoll
Bill Driscoll is an American Democratic politician, a Massachusetts state senator for the Norfolk, Plymouth and Bristol district since 2025, after serving in the state House from 2017.
Bill Drummond
Bill Drummond (William Ernest Drummond, born 1953, Butterworth, South Africa) is a Scottish artist, musician, and writer; co-founder of Zoo Records and, with Jimmy Cauty, the KLF, the Timelords, and the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu; later burned £1 million as the K Foundation. Distinct from jazz drummer Billy Drummond.
Bill Duke
Bill Duke (William Henry Duke, Jr., born 1943, Poughkeepsie, NY) is an American actor and director, not the Duke University or Duke Energy namesake, known for Predator, Commando, and directing A Rage in Harlem and Deep Cover.
Bill Elliott
Bill Elliott (William Clyde Elliott II, born 1955) is a NASCAR Hall of Fame driver from Dawsonville, Georgia; 1988 Cup champion, 44 wins, 55 poles, 1985 Winston Million winner, record 16 Most Popular Driver Awards, Class of 2015.
Bill English
Bill English, National Party politician, New Zealand prime minister 2016–2017 after eight years as deputy prime minister and finance minister under John Key; earlier party leader 2001–2003; architect of social investment.
Bill Engvall
Bill Engvall (William Ray Engvall Jr., born 1957) is an American stand-up comedian and actor from Galveston, Texas, known for "Here's your sign" and the Blue Collar Comedy Tour with Jeff Foxworthy, Ron White, and Larry the Cable Guy.
Bill Erwin
Bill Erwin (William Lindsey Erwin, 1914–2010), American character actor with over 250 screen credits, Emmy-nominated as Sid Fields on Seinfeld's "The Old Man" and known for Arthur the bellman in Somewhere in Time; not the Duke psychiatry professor of the same name.
Bill Evans
Bill Evans (William John Evans, 1929–1980), American jazz pianist and composer from Plainfield, New Jersey; played on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, reformed jazz voicings, and defined the interactive piano trio with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian.
Bill Evans discography
Bill Evans discography: recorded catalog of jazz pianist Bill Evans (1929–1980), from New Jazz Conceptions (1956) and the LaFaro–Motian Village Vanguard albums to The Bill Evans Album (1971, two Grammys) and posthumous Warner releases.
Bill Fagerbakke
Bill Fagerbakke (born 1957, Fontana, California) is an American actor, the voice of Patrick Star in SpongeBob SquarePants since 1999 and Dauber on Coach (1989–1997), also Broadway in Gargoyles.
Bill Farmer
Bill Farmer (William Robert Farmer, born 1952, Pratt, Kansas) is the American voice actor and Disney Legend who has voiced Goofy and Pluto since the mid-1980s, also Hop Pop in Amphibia and Doc in The 7D.
Bill Fellows
Bill Fellows (born 1957, Middlesbrough) is an English actor known as Stu Carpenter in Coronation Street (2021–2024) and George Cartrick in Ted Lasso, with films Lady Macbeth, Final Score, and United.
Bill Ferguson
Bill Ferguson is an American Democratic politician and President of the Maryland Senate since 2020, representing Baltimore's 46th District in the State Senate since 2011.
Bill Finger
Bill Finger (Milton Finger, 1914-1974), American comics writer, uncredited co-creator of Batman with Bob Kane: named Bruce Wayne and Gotham City, wrote the Detective Comics #27 debut script, co-created the Joker, later honored by the Bill Finger Award.
Bill Folden
Bill Folden, also known as William G. Folden, is an American Republican politician who has represented District 4 in the Maryland State Senate since 2023, after serving in the House of Delegates from 2015 to 2019.
Bill Forrester
Bill Forrester (William Ronald Forrester, Jr., born 1957), American swimmer: 1976 Olympic 200m butterfly bronze, 1975 and 1978 world champion, 4x200m freestyle relay world record holder, later GCAT coach.
Bill Foster (physicist and politician)
Bill Foster is an American politician, businessman, and physicist, the Democratic U.S. Representative from Illinois's 11th district since 2013, after representing the 14th from 2008 to 2011.
Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell (William Richard Frisell, born 1951) is an American jazz guitarist and composer, an ECM Records stalwart known for ambient Telecaster textures and Americana-jazz fusion, with a 2005 Grammy for Unspeakable.
Bill Frist
Bill Frist (William H. Frist, born 1952) is a Nashville-born cardiothoracic surgeon, founder of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, Tennessee Senator 1995-2007, and Senate Majority Leader 2003-2007, later a health policy figure and healthcare investor.
Bill Gates
Bill Gates, born William Henry Gates III in 1955, is an American software developer and business executive who co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975.
Bill Gates Sr.
Bill Gates Sr. (William Henry Gates II, 1925–2020) was a Seattle lawyer, co-founder of Preston Gates & Ellis, UW regent, and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
Bill Geist
Bill Geist (born 1945, Champaign, Illinois) is a retired CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, former New York Times 'About New York' columnist, Vietnam Bronze Star combat photographer, and author of Little League Confidential; distinct from the destination-marketing consultant of the same name.
Bill Goldberg
Bill Goldberg (William Scott Goldberg, born 1966), American wrestler and former NFL defensive tackle; 173-0 WCW streak, WCW and WWE world champion, 2018 WWE Hall of Famer, retired against Gunther in July 2025.
Bill Gosper
Bill Gosper, born Ralph William Gosper, Jr., is a programmer and mathematician who found the first glider gun in Conway's Game of Life and created Hashlife.
Bill Gothard
Bill Gothard, born William W. Gothard Jr., is an American evangelical leader who founded the Institute in Basic Life Principles and resigned from it in 2014.
Bill Graber
Bill Graber (William Noe Graber, 1911-1996), American USC pole vaulter; set a 4.37 m world record at the 1932 Olympic Trials, placed 4th at the 1932 and 5th at the 1936 Olympics.
Bill Graham (promoter)
Bill Graham, born Wulf Wolodia Grajonca, was a German-born American impresario who built the modern concert promotion business around his Fillmore venues in San Francisco and New York.
Bill Gross
Bill Gross is an American bond investor known as the "Bond King" who co-founded PIMCO in 1971, then managed a Janus fund until retiring in 2019.
Bill Gurley
Bill Gurley is a venture capitalist and general partner at Benchmark Capital since 1999, best known as the early Uber investor who led the 2017 push to remove Travis Kalanick as CEO.