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Bill Skarsgård
Bill Skarsgård, born 1990 in Vällingby, Sweden, is a Swedish actor, son of Stellan Skarsgård, known as Pennywise in It and It Chapter Two, Count Orlok in Nosferatu, and Clark Olofsson in the Netflix series Clark.
Bill Smith (olympedia 51569)
Bill Smith, born William Melvin Smith, Jr. in Honolulu, was an American swimmer who won two gold medals at the 1948 London Olympics and set seven world records.
Bill Smitrovich
Bill Smitrovich (William Stanley Zmitrowicz Jr.), American character actor born 1947 in Bridgeport, Connecticut; known for Crime Story, Life Goes On, Millennium, The Practice, and films including Independence Day, Thirteen Days, Iron Man, and Joker: Folie à Deux.
Bill Snyder
Bill Snyder (born 1939) is a retired American college football coach, Kansas State head coach 1989-2005 and 2009-2018, credited with the greatest turnaround in college football history, 215 wins, two Big 12 titles, and 2015 College Football Hall of Fame induction.
Bill Spearman
Bill Spearman is an American Democratic politician serving in the New Jersey General Assembly from the 5th district since 2018, after two stints on the Camden City Council.
Bill Stanley
Bill Stanley, born 1967, is an American Republican politician and attorney who has represented Virginia's 7th Senate district since winning a 2010 special election.
Bill Steinkraus
Bill Steinkraus (William Clark Steinkraus, 1925–2017), American show jumper and first US rider to win an individual Olympic equestrian gold (Snowbound, Mexico City 1968); four Olympic medals, 17-year USET captain.
Bill Stevenson
Bill Stevenson was an American quarter-miler who won gold in the 4 × 400 meters relay at the 1924 Paris Olympics, and later president of Oberlin College.
Bill Stevenson (businessman)
Bill Stevenson is an American former nightclub owner who founded the Stone Balloon rock bar in Newark, Delaware, and is the ex-husband of Jill Biden.
Bill Stewart
Bill Stewart, full name William Donald Stewart, is a Canadian-born former NHL defenseman who became an Italian citizen and played for Italy at the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics.
Bill Stewart (journalist)
Bill Stewart was an ABC News correspondent, 37, shot dead by a Nicaraguan National Guard soldier in Managua on June 20, 1979. The filmed execution, also killing interpreter Juan Espinosa, helped end US support for Somoza.
Bill Stirling (British Army officer)
Bill Stirling, elder brother of SAS founder David Stirling, was a Scottish SOE officer who helped conceive the Special Air Service, raised 2 SAS in Algeria, and left its command in June 1944 in a dispute over the unit's use after D-Day.
Bill Sugden
Bill Sugden is an American molecular virologist and James A. Miller Professor of Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who has studied Epstein-Barr virus and other tumor viruses since 1975.
Bill Sutherland (theoretical physicist)
Bill Sutherland is an American theoretical physicist and emeritus professor at the University of Utah, known for exactly solvable quantum many-body models and a 2019 Heineman Prize.
Bill Tanner
Bill Tanner (William Tanner) is M's Chief of Staff at MI6 in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and the Eon films, one of Bond's few friends in the Service, played on screen by Michael Goodliffe, James Villiers, Michael Kitchen, and currently Rory Kinnear.
Bill Terry
Bill Terry (1898-1989), New York Giants first baseman 1923-36 and manager 1932-41; last NL player to hit .400 (.401, 254 hits, 1930); career .341, 2,193 hits; won 1933 World Series; Hall of Fame 1954.
Bill Thies
Bill Thies is an American computer scientist known for frugal technologies for global health and development, awarded a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship and formerly at Microsoft Research.
Bill Thompson
Bill Thompson (William Gluyas Thompson, 1908–1956), American rower from Napa, California, who won gold in the men's eights for the United States at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics rowing for Cal, Berkeley; distinct from Don, Daley, and William Thompson.
Bill Thompson (voice actor)
Bill Thompson (William Henry Thompson Jr., 1913–1971), American radio personality and voice actor; Wallace Wimple on Fibber McGee and Molly, voice of MGM's Droopy (1943–1958) and Disney's White Rabbit, Mr. Smee, and Uncle Waldo.
Bill Tilden
Bill Tilden (William Tatem Tilden II, 1893-1953), "Big Bill," American tennis champion: seven US National and three Wimbledon singles titles, world No. 1 1920-25, Davis Cup leader, then pioneering professional from 1931.
Bill Toomey
William "Bill" Toomey (born January 10, 1939) is an American decathlete, 1968 Mexico City Olympic gold medalist with an Olympic-record 8,193 points and 1969 decathlon world record holder at 8,417 points.
Bill Travers
Bill Travers (William Inglis Lindon Travers, 1922-1994), English actor, screenwriter and wildlife campaigner; starred as George Adamson in Born Free (1966) with wife Virginia McKenna, and co-founded Zoo Check, later the Born Free Foundation, in 1984.
Bill Traylor
Bill Traylor was an African American self-taught artist, born into slavery in Alabama, who made over 1,000 drawings and paintings beginning around 1939 at about age 85.
Bill Treacher
Bill Treacher (William Charles Treacher, 1930–2022), English actor, first cast member of EastEnders, played Arthur Fowler 1985–1996; later ataxia; died of pneumonia and Covid-19.
Bill Trenchard
Bill Trenchard is a venture capitalist and Partner at First Round Capital in San Francisco, where he has invested since 2012 in companies including Looker, Flexport, Verkada, and Together AI.
Bill Turnbull
Bill Turnbull (William Robert Jolyon Turnbull, 1956–2022) was a British broadcaster who presented BBC Breakfast for 15 years (2001–2016), later hosted Classic FM weekend mornings, and campaigned for prostate cancer early diagnosis after his 2017 diagnosis.
Bill Varley
Bill Varley (William Michael Varley, 1880–1968), American rower of New York's Atalanta Boat Club; won 1904 St. Louis Olympic gold in double sculls and silver in coxless pairs with John Mulcahy.
Bill Veeck
Bill Veeck, born William Louis Veeck Jr., was an American Major League Baseball owner and executive known for running the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns, and Chicago White Sox.
Bill Viola
Bill Viola (1951–2024), American video art pioneer, created slow-motion immersive installations such as The Greeting, Nantes Triptych, and St Paul's Cathedral's Martyrs and Mary, drawing on Renaissance painting and Zen, Sufi, and Christian mysticism.
Bill W.
Bill W. (William Griffith Wilson, 1895–1971) co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous with Dr. Bob Smith in Akron in 1935, wrote the Big Book and Twelve Traditions, and shaped AA's anonymity and leaderless structure.