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Billy Joe Saunders
Billy Joe Saunders (born 1989, Welwyn Garden City) is a British southpaw boxer, two-weight WBO world champion at middleweight (2015-2018) and super middleweight (2019-2021), retired 30-1 (14 KOs), losing only to Canelo Alvarez in 2021.
Billy Joe Shaver
Billy Joe Shaver (1939-2020), Texas outlaw country singer-songwriter, wrote nearly all of Waylon Jennings's Honky Tonk Heroes (1973); his songs were covered by Cash, Presley, and Dylan.
Billy Joel
Billy Joel (William Martin Joel, born 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist, also called the Piano Man, with 150 million records sold, five Grammys, the Gershwin Prize, and a Madison Square Garden residency; distinct from any other Joel or Billy namesake.
Billy Joel discography
Billy Joel discography: the recording catalog of the American singer-pianist, spanning 1971's Cold Spring Harbor to 2001's Fantasies & Delusions, plus the 12x Platinum Stranger, 52nd Street, An Innocent Man, live albums, and box sets.
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Billy Joel: And So It Goes is a 2025 two-part HBO documentary about singer-songwriter Billy Joel, directed by Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin, tracing his life and songs.
Billy Kametz
Billy Kametz (1987–2022), American anime and video game voice actor from Hershey, Pennsylvania; Naofumi in Shield Hero, Josuke in JoJo Part 4, Maruki in Persona 5 Royal; died of stage IV colon cancer at 35.
Billy Kidman
Billy Kidman, ring name of Peter Gruner, is an American retired professional wrestler and WWE producer. A seven-time Cruiserweight Champion across WCW and WWE, he used the Shooting Star Press and later trained talent at FCW.
Billy Knight (film)
Billy Knight (2025) is an American drama, the feature directorial debut of Alec Griffen Roth, starring Al Pacino, Charlie Heaton, and Diana Silvers. It premiered August 8, 2025 at Rhode Island; not the basketball person.
Billy Laughlin
Billy Laughlin (William Robert Laughlin, 1932-1948), American child actor who played gravel-voiced Froggy in 29 Our Gang/Little Rascals shorts 1940-1944; died at 16 in a La Puente scooter-truck accident.
Billy Liar
Billy Liar (1963) is a British New Wave comedy-drama directed by John Schlesinger, starring Tom Courtenay as daydreaming Yorkshire undertaker's clerk Billy Fisher and Julie Christie as Liz, adapted from Keith Waterhouse's 1959 novel.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain's 2012 debut novel (Ecco), follows Bravo Squad during a Thanksgiving Dallas Cowboys game; it won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award and was adapted by Ang Lee in 2016.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (film)
Ang Lee's 2016 war drama adapted from Ben Fountain's novel, starring Joe Alwyn; the first Hollywood feature shot in 3D, 4K, 120 fps on Sony F65, released November 11, 2016 to mixed reviews and a $1.7M US gross.
Billy M. Horton
Billy M. Horton (1928–2011) was an American mechanical engineer at Case Western Reserve University who worked in fluidics and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979.
Billy Mackenzie
Billy Mackenzie (William MacArthur Mackenzie, 1957-1997), Scottish singer of the Associates with Alan Rankine; four-octave voice, Sulk and Party Fears Two, solo Outernational, died in Auchterhouse.
Billy MacLellan
Billy MacLellan (born 1974, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian actor, writer, and director known for Maudie, Bellevue, Nobody, Normal, and his 2012 ACTRA Voice award for Afghanada.
Billy Madison
Billy Madison is a 1995 American comedy starring Adam Sandler and directed by Tamra Davis. The film follows a spoiled heir repeating school to inherit a hotel fortune.
Billy Magnussen
Billy Magnussen (William Gregory Magnussen, born 1985) is an American actor and musician, Tony-nominated for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, known for Into the Woods, Aladdin, No Time to Die, Lilo & Stitch, and AMC's The Audacity.
Billy Martin
Billy Martin (Alfred Manuel Martin, 1928-1989), American baseball second baseman and manager; 1953 World Series star with the Yankees, 1977 World Series-winning manager, five stints under Steinbrenner, Billyball with Oakland.
Billy Mays
Billy Mays, born William Darrell Mays Jr. and known as the OxiClean guy, was an American TV pitchman who sold OxiClean, Orange Glo, and Kaboom until his 2009 death.
Billy McFarland
Billy McFarland (William Z. McFarland), American founder of the failed Fyre Festival and Fyre Media; convicted of wire and bank fraud, sentenced in 2018 to six years, released early in March 2022, and later sold the Fyre brand for $245,300.
Billy McNeill
Billy McNeill (1940-2019), nicknamed Cesar, Scottish defender and captain of Celtic's Lisbon Lions, first British captain to lift the 1967 European Cup; later Celtic manager and club ambassador.
Billy Meier
Billy Meier, born Eduard Albert Meier, is a Swiss UFO contactee who claims contacts with Plejaren extraterrestrials since 1975 and founded the FIGU movement in Switzerland.
Billy Meredith
Billy Meredith (William Henry Meredith, 1874-1958), the original Welsh Wizard, was a right winger for Manchester City and Manchester United, FA Cup winner 1904 and 1909, and founder of the Players' Union.
Billy Miller (actor)
Billy Miller (William John Miller II, 1979–2023) was an American soap actor who won three Daytime Emmys as Billy Abbott on The Young and the Restless (2008–2014) and played Jason Morgan/Drew Cain on General Hospital (2014–2019); he died by suicide in Austin, Texas.
Billy Milligan
Billy Milligan (William Stanley Milligan, 1955-2014), Ohio man acquitted by reason of insanity in 1978 on rape, robbery, and kidnapping charges based on a multiple personality disorder (DID) diagnosis of 24 personalities; first such verdict.
Billy Mills
Billy Mills (William Mervin Mills, born 1938), Oglala Lakota runner, won the 1964 Tokyo Olympic 10,000m in a record 28:24.4 as a virtual unknown; only American ever to win the event, later co-founded Running Strong for American Indian Youth.
Billy Mitchell
Billy Mitchell (1879-1936), US Army brigadier general and father of the US Air Force, proved aircraft could sink battleships in the 1921 Ostfriesland tests and was court-martialed in 1925 for insubordination.
Billy Mitchell (EastEnders)
Billy Mitchell (William Mitchell), EastEnders soap character played by Perry Fenwick since 2 November 1998; a downtrodden Mitchell relative, 2,248 episodes, married Little Mo and Honey, foster father of Jay Brown.
Billy Mitchell (gamer)
Billy Mitchell, American arcade gamer from Hollywood, Florida; first perfect Pac-Man score (3,333,360, 3 July 1999) and Donkey Kong records later stripped by Twin Galaxies in 2018 over MAME evidence, then reinstated by Guinness in 2020.
Billy Monger
Billy Monger, 'Billy Whizz', British racing driver who lost both legs in a 120 mph 2017 British F4 crash at Donington Park, returned as the first amputee in single-seater racing, became a Channel 4 F1 presenter, and set an IRONMAN Kona record.