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William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor
William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor (William Waldorf Astor III, born 1951) is a British Conservative hereditary peer who served as a government whip and junior minister in the 1990s.
William Atherton
William Atherton (William Atherton Knight, born 1947, Orange, Connecticut) is an American actor known as Walter Peck in Ghostbusters and reporter Dick Thornburg in Die Hard and Die Hard 2, with a Carnegie-Mellon-trained stage career and 1970s leading roles.
William Augustus Rogers
William Augustus Rogers (1832–1898) was an American astronomer and physicist, professor at Colby University, known for measuring thousands of stars at Harvard and for precision standards of length.
William Ayache
William Ayache, born 1961 in Algiers, is a French former left back who won 1984 Olympic gold with France, played the 1986 World Cup, earned 20 caps, and won titles with Nantes and Montpellier.
William B Curry
William B Curry is an American paleoceanographer who spent 32 years at Woods Hole and led the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences from 2012 to 2025.
William B. Davis
William B. Davis (born January 13, 1938, Toronto) is a Canadian actor, director, and acting teacher best known as the Cigarette Smoking Man on The X-Files, and founder of the William Davis Centre for Actors' Study in Vancouver.
William B. Evans
William B. Evans, Boston Police Commissioner 2014–2018 and later Boston College public safety chief; 38-year BPD veteran, Watertown incident commander in the Tsarnaev capture, community-policing advocate.
William B. Guggino
William B. Guggino is a physiologist who became Chair of Physiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, known for research on the CFTR chloride channel in cystic fibrosis.
William B. Hood
William B. Hood, Jr. is an American cardiologist and cardiovascular researcher who trained at Harvard and worked at Boston City Hospital and the University of Rochester.
William B. Ide
William Brown Ide (1796–1852), California pioneer and commander of the 25-day Bear Flag Republic of 1846; later Colusi County judge and Red Bluff ferry operator; commemorated at Ide Adobe State Historic Park.
William B. Jakoby
William B. Jakoby was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, known for defining, purifying, and naming the glutathione S-transferases.
William B. Johnson (mathematician)
William B. Johnson (born 1944) is an American mathematician at Texas A&M University, best known for the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma, a dimension-reduction result used in algorithm design.
William B. Kannel
William B. Kannel was an American cardiovascular epidemiologist who directed the Framingham Heart Study from 1966 to 1979, popularized the term "risk factor," and published more than 600 medical articles.
William B. Kouwenhoven
William B. Kouwenhoven (1886–1975) was an American electrical engineer at Johns Hopkins University whose team developed external defibrillation and, in 1958–1960, the closed-chest cardiac massage that became CPR.
William B. Mair
William B. Mair is an aging researcher who studies how nutrition and metabolism set the rate of aging, and Professor of Molecular Metabolism at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
William B. McKinnon
William B. McKinnon is an American planetary geophysicist at Washington University in St. Louis, elected to the National Academy of Sciences and awarded the 2023 Kuiper Prize.
William B. McLean
William B. McLean (1914–1976) was an American physicist and Navy civilian scientist who conceived and led development of the AIM-9 Sidewinder heat-seeking missile at China Lake, later heading the Navy's undersea research organization.
William B. Pratt
William B. Pratt is a biochemist at the University of Michigan Medical School whose laboratory showed from 1985 to 2004 how the hsp90 chaperone machinery regulates steroid hormone receptors.
William B. Rossow
William B. Rossow, also published as W. B. Rossow, is an American climate scientist who led the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project at NASA GISS from 1982 to 2015.
William B. Russel
William B. Russel (1945–2023) was an American chemical engineer at Princeton University, a central figure in colloid science and dean of its Graduate School from 2002 to 2014.
William B. Saxbe
William B. Saxbe was a lawyer and politician who served as the 70th U.S. Attorney General from 1974 to 1975. He was also a U.S. Senator from Ohio.
William B. Shubb
William B. Shubb, born 1938, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of California, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.
William B. Swann
William B. Swann Jr. is an American social psychologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, known for self-verification theory and identity fusion theory.
William B. Taylor Jr.
William B. Taylor Jr. (born 1947), also known as Bill Taylor, is an American diplomat, West Point graduate, and Vietnam veteran who was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine 2006–2009 and chargé d'affaires in Kyiv 2019–2020, a key witness in the first Trump impeachment inquiry.
William B. Tolman
William B. Tolman is an American bioinorganic chemist known for copper–dioxygen complexes and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas.
William B. Travis
William Barret Travis (1809-1836) was the lieutenant colonel commanding the Alamo garrison during the 1836 siege, known for the Anahuac Disturbances and the "Victory or Death" letter; not to be confused with other Travis namesakes.
William B. Traxler, Jr.
William B. Traxler, Jr., also known as William Byrd Traxler, Jr., is a senior judge of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
William B. White
William B. White is an American cardiologist and professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, known for hypertension research and 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.
William B. Wood
William B. Wood (1938–2024) was an American developmental biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for his studies of embryonic asymmetry, sex determination, and aging in C. elegans.
William Baldwin
William (Billy) Baldwin, born 1963 in Massapequa, New York, American actor and producer, third Baldwin brother, known for Backdraft, Sliver, The Squid and the Whale, Dirty Sexy Money, and Northern Rescue.