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William C. Ratcliff
William C. Ratcliff is an evolutionary biologist and professor at Georgia Tech who evolves multicellular life from single-celled yeast, leading the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment since 2018.
William C. Rogers III
William C. Rogers III (born 1938, Fort Worth, Texas) is a retired U.S. Navy captain who commanded USS Vincennes (CG-49) when it shot down Iran Air Flight 655 on 3 July 1988, killing 290; exonerated by the Fogarty investigation, awarded the Legion of Merit, and co-author of Storm Center.
William C. Sessa
William C. Sessa is an American pharmacologist and vascular biologist, the Alfred Gilman Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology at Yale, known for work on endothelial nitric oxide synthase.
William C. Stwalley
William C. Stwalley (1942–2025) was an American physical chemist, a leading figure in ultracold atom and molecule research who headed physics at the University of Connecticut.
William C. Summers
William C. Summers is an American virologist and historian of science, a Yale professor from 1968 to 2017 known for discovering the T7 RNA polymerase.
William C. Webster
William C. Webster is an American naval architect and ocean engineer, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
William Calley
William Calley was a US Army lieutenant who led the killing of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai in 1968 and became the only person convicted.
William Carey (missionary)
William Carey (1761–1834) was an English Baptist shoemaker turned missionary who co-founded the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792 and spent forty years in Bengal translating the Bible.
William Carl Buchan
William Carl Buchan (born 1956, Seattle) is an American sailor, 1984 Olympic Flying Dutchman gold medalist crewing for Jonathan McKee, son of Star gold medalist William Earl Buchan, and 1988 America's Cup winner aboard Stars & Stripes.
William Carleton
William Carleton (1794–1869) was an Irish novelist and short-story writer, born to a Catholic tenant farmer in Prillisk, County Tyrone, best known for Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry.
William Carlezon
William A. Carlezon Jr. is an American neuroscientist and psychiatry researcher, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and founder of McLean Hospital's Behavioral Genetics Laboratory.
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), American poet and physician of Rutherford, New Jersey; author of "The Red Wheelbarrow" and Paterson; dictum "no ideas but in things"; Pulitzer-winning modernist.
William Carlson (trader)
William Carlson is a Chicago trader who founded Belvedere Trading in 2002 with $405,000 to trade S&P 500 index options, selling his stake in 2008.
William Carvalho
William Carvalho (William Silva de Carvalho, born 1992, Luanda) is a Portuguese defensive midfielder; Sporting CP, Real Betis (record 223 matches), CF Pachuca; 80 Portugal caps, Euro 2016 and Nations League 2019 winner.
William Caslon
William Caslon (1692–1766) was an English typefounder whose roman and italic faces, cut in London from the 1720s, dominated English printing and printed the Declaration of Independence.
William Caspar Graustein
William Caspar Graustein (1888–1941) was an American mathematician at Harvard University who worked in classical differential geometry and won the crowned prize of the Belgian Academy of Sciences.
William Castle
William Castle (William Schloss Jr., 1914–1977), American B-film director-producer, the 'Abominable Showman' behind Emergo, Percepto, Illusion-O gimmick horrors like House on Haunted Hill and The Tingler, and producer of Rosemary's Baby.
William Cathcart
William Cathcart (1826–1908) was an Irish-born American Baptist minister, editor, and author who pastored Philadelphia's Second Baptist Church for 28 years and edited The Baptist Encyclopedia (1881).
William Catterall
William Catterall (1946–2024) was an American pharmacologist and neurobiologist at the University of Washington who discovered the voltage-gated sodium and calcium channel proteins and chaired its pharmacology department from 1984 to 2016.
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809), Whig grandee and twice British prime minister (1783, 1807-1809), Home Secretary from 1794 whose Whig secession to Pitt laid Tory foundations.
William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (1748-1811), Whig nobleman who inherited vast English and Irish estates, married Georgiana Spencer, formed a ménage à trois with Lady Elizabeth Foster, declined cabinet office, and left debts of £593,000.
William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire
William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire (1790-1858), the Bachelor Duke, Whig peer and Lord Chamberlain; son of Georgiana, builder of Chatsworth's North Wing, patron of Joseph Paxton, never married.
William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington
William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington, also known as Bill Burlington, is a British photographer who founded Lismore Castle Arts in Ireland and is Chancellor of the University of Derby.
William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
Marquess of Hartington was the courtesy title of the Duke of Devonshire's heir, created 1694. Holders include the 4th duke, briefly prime minister 1756-57; Spencer Compton, 8th duke, thrice declined the premiership; and Billy Cavendish, killed 1944.
William Caxton
William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491) was an English merchant, translator, and printer who introduced printing into England at Westminster in 1476, printing about a hundred books.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520/1–1598), also Lord Burghley, was Elizabeth I's chief minister, principal Secretary of State from 1558 and Lord High Treasurer from 1572, builder of Burghley House, foiler of the Ridolfi plot, and father of Robert Cecil.
William Chan (陈伟霆)
William Chan (陈伟霆, Chan Wai Ting), Hong Kong singer, dancer, and actor born 1985; ex-Sun Boy'z member, solo debut Will Power (2008), mainland breakthrough via Swords of Legends (2014) and The Mystic Nine (2016), Emperor Entertainment artist.
William Chapman (poet)
William Chapman, born George William Alphred, was a French-Canadian poet and journalist (1850–1917) who published five collections and was a laureate of the Académie française.
William Chauvenet
William Chauvenet (1820–1870) was an American mathematician and astronomer who built the Naval Academy's mathematical curriculum and served as chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis.
William Checkley
William Checkley is a physician-epidemiologist and Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins who studies air pollution and lung health in low- and middle-income countries, especially Peru.