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William Chester Minor
William Chester Minor was an American surgeon and Union Army veteran, confined at Broadmoor Asylum, who became a leading contributor of quotations to the Oxford English Dictionary.
William Chia
William Chia is a developmental biologist known for work on asymmetric cell division in Drosophila neural stem cells, and is a Professor at King's College London.
William Christopher
William Christopher (1932–2016) was an American actor, not the journalist or other namesakes, who played Father Francis Mulcahy on M*A*S*H (1972–1983) and AfterMASH, and Private Lester Hummel on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.; born Evanston, Illinois; died Pasadena, California.
William Christopher Stadie
William Christopher Stadie (1886–1959) was an American physician and metabolic physiologist at the University of Pennsylvania who pioneered oxygen therapy for pneumonia and studied insulin action.
William Chueh
William Chueh, also published as William C. Chueh, is a Stanford materials scientist known for applying machine learning to battery testing and directing the Precourt Institute for Energy.
William Clark
William Clark (1770–1838), American soldier and explorer, co-led the 1804–1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition with Meriwether Lewis, drew the era's most accurate map of the West, and later served as Governor of Missouri Territory and Superintendent of Indian Affairs.
William Clay Ford Jr.
William Clay Ford Jr., known as Bill Ford, is an American businessman who has chaired Ford Motor Company since 1999 and was its CEO from 2001 to 2006.
William Clay Ford Sr.
William Clay Ford Sr. (1925–2014) was a grandson of Henry Ford who served on Ford Motor Company's board for 57 years and owned the Detroit Lions for half a century.
William Clouston (politician)
William Clouston (William Stuart James Clouston) is a British politician, SDP leader 2018 to 2026, known for the party's red-and-blue mix of social democracy and social conservatism, the 2024 Reform UK electoral pact, the Clacton by-election candidacy, and his September 2026 resignation.
William Coales
William Coales (1886–1960), British long-distance runner of Thrapston & District Harriers, won gold in the 3-mile team race at the 1908 London Olympics and also ran the 5 miles there.
William Coblentz
William Coblentz was an American physicist at the National Bureau of Standards considered the originator of molecular infrared spectroscopy in the United States and the first to verify Planck's law.
William Cohen
William S. Cohen (William Sebastian Cohen), born 1940 in Bangor, Maine, is a moderate Republican who served as Maine congressman and senator (1973-1997), 20th U.S. Secretary of Defense under Clinton (1997-2001), and later chairman of The Cohen Group.
William Colby
William Egan Colby was an American intelligence officer who led the CIA as Director of Central Intelligence from 1973 to 1976, disclosing its controversial operations to Congress.
William Coley
William Bradley Coley (1862–1936) was a New York bone surgeon who developed Coley's toxins, heat-killed bacteria injected into cancer patients, and is often called the Father of Immunotherapy.
William Collins
William (Bill) Collins, born 1950, American sprinter, TCU star, 1977 IAAF World Cup 4x100m world record 38.03, and record-setting masters sprinter; distinct from other athletes named William or Will Collins.
William Colton
William Colton is an American Democratic politician who has represented Brooklyn's 47th district, including Bensonhurst and Gravesend, in the New York State Assembly since his November 1996 election.
William Congreve
William Congreve (1670–1729), English Restoration playwright and poet, master of the comedy of manners; wrote The Old Bachelor, Love for Love, The Mourning Bride, and The Way of the World (1700).
William Connor Magee
William Connor Magee (1821–1891) was an Anglican bishop, born in Cork, who served as Bishop of Peterborough and briefly as Archbishop of York in 1891.
William Conrad
William Conrad (John William Cann, 1920–1994), American actor, director, and producer; radio's original Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke (1952–61), narrator of Bullwinkle and The Fugitive, and star of TV's Cannon and Jake and the Fatman.
William Cookson (genomic medicine professor)
William Cookson is a physician-scientist and Professor of Genomic Medicine at Imperial College London, known for identifying the ORMDL3 asthma gene and leading the GABRIEL consortium.
William Coryell
William Coryell is an American psychiatrist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa, known for decades of longitudinal research on mood disorders and suicide prediction.
William Courtenay
William Courtenay (1341/2–1396), son of the earl of Devon, rose through Hereford and London to become Archbishop of Canterbury in 1381, leading the church's response to Wycliffe.
William Cowper
William Cowper (1731-1800), English poet and translator of Homer, author of The Task and John Gilpin, Olney Hymns collaborator with John Newton, antislavery poet, pioneer of Romantic poetry.
William Craig Reynolds
William Craig Reynolds (1933–2004) was an American fluid physicist and mechanical engineer who spent his career at Stanford University, known for turbulence modeling and for coining large eddy simulation.
William Cranch
William Cranch (1769–1855), nephew of John Adams, was Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Circuit Court from 1801 to 1855 and the second, self-appointed Supreme Court reporter, publisher of the nine-volume Cranch Reports (U.S. Reports vols. 5–13).
William Crookes
Sir William Crookes (1832–1919) was a British chemist and physicist who discovered thallium in 1861, invented the radiometer, and conducted cathode-ray experiments in the Crookes tube.
William Croswell Doane
William Croswell Doane (1832–1913) was an American Episcopal bishop who served 44 years as the first Bishop of Albany and wrote the hymn "Ancient of Days."
William Crowell Bray
William Crowell Bray (1879–1946) was a Canadian-born American chemist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his work on inorganic reaction kinetics and for the Bray–Liebhafsky oscillating chemical reaction.
William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) was an American poet and newspaper editor, known for the nature poem "Thanatopsis" and for editing the New-York Evening Post for nearly fifty years.
William Cummin Clark
William Cummin Clark, known professionally as William C. Clark, is an American ecologist and sustainability scientist, the Harvey Brooks Research Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School.