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William Buckley (convict)
William Buckley (1780–1856), the "Wild White Man", English convict transported for life on the Calcutta, escaped Sullivan Bay in 1803 and lived about 32 years with the Wathaurung people until 1835.
William Buell Sprague
William Buell Sprague (1795–1876) was an American Presbyterian minister of Albany, New York, whose nine-volume Annals of the American Pulpit (1857–1869) preserved biographies of over 1,300 Protestant clergymen.
William Bulger
William M. Bulger (born 1934), brother of mobster Whitey Bulger, was a South Boston Democrat and Massachusetts Senate president 1978–1996, the longest in state history, then president of the University of Massachusetts.
William Bullock Clark
William Bullock Clark (1860–1917) was an American geologist who was professor of geology at Johns Hopkins and State Geologist of Maryland, founding the Maryland Geological Survey in 1896.
William Burnside
William Burnside (1852–1927) was an English mathematician who, with Frobenius, founded the modern theory of finite groups and wrote the first English treatise on group theory.
William Byrd
William Byrd (c. 1540–1623), also Birde, English Renaissance composer and Chapel Royal organist; Catholic recusant under Elizabeth I, holder of the 1575 Tallis printing patent, composer of three masses, the 109-motet Gradualia, and virginal music.
William Byrd II
William Byrd II (1674–1744), Virginia planter, councilor, and writer of Westover, led the 1728 Virginia–North Carolina boundary survey, founded Richmond, kept coded secret diaries, and wrote the Dividing Line histories.
William Byron (racing driver)
William Byron (born 1997, Charlotte, NC) is an American NASCAR Cup Series driver of the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, a 16-time Cup winner, back-to-back 2024-2025 Daytona 500 champion, 2017 Xfinity Series title holder, and three-time Championship 4 finalist.
William C Lemon
William C Lemon is a Senior Scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, known for computational reconstruction of embryonic cell lineages and fluorescent probes for imaging.
William C. Aird
William C. Aird is a hematologist and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School who practices at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and studies endothelial heterogeneity.
William C. Bryson
William Curtis Bryson is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit since 2013.
William C. Burnett
William C. Burnett (born 1945) is an American marine geochemist and Professor Emeritus at Florida State University, known for radon and radium tracer methods for submarine groundwater discharge.
William C. Campbell (scientist)
William C. Campbell, also known as William Cecil Campbell, is an Irish-born American parasitologist who shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of ivermectin.
William C. Canby, Jr.
William C. Canby, Jr. (born 1931) is an American jurist, a senior judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals who was appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1980.
William C. Davidon
William C. Davidon (1927–2013) was an American physicist and Haverford College professor who created the DFP optimization method and masterminded the 1971 FBI office burglary in Media, Pennsylvania.
William C. Dement
William C. Dement, also known as William Dement, was an American psychiatrist and sleep researcher at Stanford who coined the term REM sleep and built sleep medicine into a clinical discipline.
William C. Durant
William C. Durant is an American businessman who founded General Motors in 1908 and co-founded Chevrolet in 1911, later founding Durant Motors and ending in personal bankruptcy.
William C. Earnshaw
William C. Earnshaw is an American cell biologist at the University of Edinburgh who identified the first centromere proteins and discovered the chromosomal passenger complex.
William C. Goins Jr.
William C. Goins Jr. (1920–2009) was an American petroleum drilling engineer known for pioneering blowout prevention and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.
William C. Gorgas
William C. Gorgas, also known as William Crawford Gorgas, was an American Army physician whose mosquito control eliminated yellow fever from Havana and the Panama Canal Zone.
William C. Griesbach
William C. Griesbach, born 1954 in Milwaukee, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin who served as chief judge from 2012 to 2019.
William C. Hahn
William C. Hahn is an American physician-scientist in cancer genomics who serves as chief operating officer of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.
William C. Hittinger
William C. Hittinger (1922–2013) was an American electronics engineer who led semiconductor development at Bell Telephone Laboratories and later served as RCA's executive vice president of research and engineering.
William C. Hsiao
William C. Hsiao (蕭慶倫) is an American health economist at Harvard who developed the RBRVS payment scale used by Medicare and designed Taiwan's 1995 national health insurance.
William C. Knowler
William C. Knowler is an American physician-scientist who led NIDDK's diabetes epidemiology section in Phoenix from 1979 to 2021, known for the Diabetes Prevention Program.
William C. Little
William C. Little (1950–2015) was an American cardiologist who led cardiology at Wake Forest for over two decades and reshaped the diagnosis of diastolic heart failure.
William C. Maurer
William C. Maurer is an American drilling engineer who founded Maurer Engineering in Houston, helped build the first PDC drill bit, and holds 38 patents.
William C. McCool
William C. McCool, known as Willie McCool, was an American naval aviator and NASA astronaut who piloted Space Shuttle Columbia on the fatal STS-107 mission in 2003.
William C. Mobley
William C. Mobley is an American neurologist and neuroscientist, Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego, known for the signaling endosome hypothesis and showing that the APP gene drives Alzheimer disease in Down syndrome.
William C. Moloney
William C. Moloney (1907–1998) was an American hematologist and Harvard Medical School professor who pioneered chemotherapy for leukemia and quantified radiation-induced leukemia among atomic-bomb survivors in Hiroshima.