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Bill McKinney
Bill McKinney (William Denison McKinney, 1931-2011), American character actor famous for the Mountain Man in Deliverance and Captain Terrill in The Outlaw Josey Wales; seven Clint Eastwood films, esophageal cancer death in Van Nuys.
Bill Medley
Bill Medley (William Thomas Medley, born 1940), deep-voiced half of the Righteous Brothers and pioneer of blue-eyed soul; known for "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", the Grammy-winning Dirty Dancing duet with Jennifer Warnes, and touring today with Bucky Heard.
Bill Mettler
Bill Mettler (William Roy Mettler, Jr., born 1946, Springfield, Ohio), American swimmer and lawyer. Yale All-American; won 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold in the 4x200 m freestyle relay as a heat swimmer; later Arizona litigation attorney.
Bill Miller (olympedia 78793)
Bill Miller (William Waring Miller, 1912-2008), American Stanford pole vaulter; won 1932 Los Angeles Olympic gold in men's pole vault at 4.31 m, distinct from javelin thrower William Preston Miller and rower William Garfield Miller.
Bill Miller (William Garfield "Bill"•Miller)
William Garfield "Bill" Miller (1905–1985), American rower of Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Barge Club; two Olympic silvers, coxless fours 1928 and single sculls 1932 behind Bobby Pearce; distinct from the pole vaulter and javelin Bill Millers.
Bill Millin
Bill Millin (1922–2010), 'the Mad Piper', was Lord Lovat's personal piper with the 1st Special Service Brigade, the only piper to play on D-Day, landing on Sword Beach 6 June 1944 under a War Office ban on pipers in action.
Bill Moen
Bill Moen, also known as William F. "Bill" Moen Jr., is a Democratic New Jersey General Assembly member from the 5th district since 2020 and Deputy Speaker since 2026.
Bill Monroe
Bill Monroe (1911-1996), the Father of Bluegrass Music, American mandolinist and singer whose band the Blue Grass Boys gave bluegrass its name; classic 1945-48 lineup with Flatt and Scruggs, high lonesome sound, Country Music Hall of Fame 1970.
Bill Morandi
Bill Morandi, born 1983 in Fribourg, Switzerland, is a Swiss synthetic organic chemist and full professor at ETH Zürich, known for shuttle catalysis and the 2016 Ruzicka Prize.
Bill Morgan lottery win
Bill Morgan lottery win: 1999 story of Australian Melbourne truck driver Bill Morgan, clinically dead 14 minutes after a 1998 heart attack, who won a car scratchcard, then A$250,000 live on Nine News during a televised re-enactment.
Bill Morneau
Bill Morneau (William Francis Morneau), Canadian businessman and Liberal MP for Toronto Centre, was Canada's finance minister from November 4, 2015 to August 17, 2020, the first rookie MP in the role since 1919; resigned amid WE Charity ethics findings.
Bill Moseley
Bill Moseley (William Lambert Moseley, born 1951, Stamford, Connecticut) is an American horror actor and musician known as Chop Top in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Otis Driftwood in Rob Zombie's Firefly trilogy, plus Cornbugs vocals with Buckethead.
Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers (Billy Don Moyers, 1934–2025), American broadcast journalist and former LBJ White House press secretary (1965–1967), Newsday publisher, and PBS documentary producer of Bill Moyers Journal, NOW, Power of Myth, and Buying the War.
Bill Mueller
Bill Mueller, born William Richard Mueller in 1971, is an American former MLB third baseman who won the 2003 AL batting title and hit two grand slams from opposite sides of the plate in one game.
Bill Mulliken
Bill Mulliken (William Danforth Mulliken, 1939-2014), American swimmer and Chicago lawyer; surprise 1960 Rome Olympic gold medalist in the 200 m breaststroke (2:37.4), also 1959 Pan American Games champion and Hall of Fame Masters swimmer.
Bill Mumy
Bill Mumy (Charles William Mumy Jr., born 1954) is an American actor, musician, and writer known as Will Robinson on Lost in Space, Anthony Fremont on The Twilight Zone, and Lennier on Babylon 5, also half of Barnes & Barnes.
Bill Murray
Bill Murray (born 1950), American actor and comedian; SNL cast member 1976–1980, star of Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day, Oscar-nominated for Lost in Translation, longtime Wes Anderson collaborator, 2016 Mark Twain Prize recipient.
Bill Nankeville
Bill Nankeville (George William Nankeville, 1925-2021), British middle-distance runner, 1948 and 1952 Olympian, 1950 European 1500 m bronze medallist, four-time AAA mile champion, and holder of three relay world records.
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson, full name Clarence William Nelson II, is an American politician and former astronaut who was the 14th NASA administrator, serving from 2021 to 2025.
Bill Nieder
Bill Nieder (William Henry Nieder, 1933-2022), American shot putter, 1960 Rome Olympic champion (19.68 m OR), 1956 Melbourne silver medalist, and first man over 20 metres with three 1960 world records ending at 20.06 m.
Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy (born 1949) is an English actor known for Love Actually, State of Play, Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean, and his Oscar-nominated lead in Living (2022).
Bill Northam
Bill Northam (William Herbert Northam, 1905-1988), Australian sailor and businessman who won 5.5-metre class gold at Tokyo 1964 aboard Barrenjoey, Australia's first Olympic sailing gold and, at 59, the oldest Australian Olympic champion.
Bill Nunn
Bill Nunn (William Goldwyn Nunn III) was an American character actor from Pittsburgh best known as Radio Raheem in Do the Right Thing (1989) and Robbie Robertson in Spider-Man.
Bill Nye
Bill Nye, born William Sanford Nye in 1955, is an American science educator and mechanical engineer, best known for hosting the children's series Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Bill Nye Saves the World
Bill Nye Saves the World is a Netflix science talk show hosted by Bill Nye, premiering April 21, 2017, running three seasons (13, 6, and 6 episodes) with correspondents Karlie Kloss and Derek Muller, covering climate change, vaccines, and GMOs.
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Bill Nye the Science Guy is a 1993-1998 PBS KCTS-TV educational series hosted by engineer Bill Nye: 100 single-topic 25-minute episodes for eight-to-ten year olds, 19 Emmy Awards, NSF-funded, evaluated by Rockman et al.
Bill Nye–Ken Ham debate
The Bill Nye–Ken Ham debate, also called Scopes II, was a February 4, 2014 creationism-versus-evolution debate at Kentucky's Creation Museum between science educator Bill Nye and Answers in Genesis CEO Ken Ham, watched by millions.
Bill O'Brien (American football)
Bill O'Brien, American football coach; Houston Texans head coach 2014-2020 (52-48, four AFC South titles), Penn State 2012-13, Alabama OC, Patriots OC 2023, Boston College head coach from 2024.
Bill O'Meara
Bill O'Meara (William J. O'Meara) is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded LSI Logic in 1980, led its marketing and sales, and later served as CEO of C-Cube Microsystems.
Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)
Bill O'Reilly (William James O'Reilly Jr., born 1949), American conservative commentator who anchored Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor 1996-2017, was fired over harassment settlements, and now hosts No Spin News and We'll Do It Live.