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William Dutton
William Dutton (born 1989) is a Canadian long track speed sprinter from Humboldt, Saskatchewan, who raced the 500 m and 1,000 m at Sochi 2014 and won his first World Cup medals in 2015-16 after briefly retiring.
William DuVall
William DuVall, born 1967 in Washington, D.C., is an American singer-guitarist who joined Alice in Chains in 2006, after playing in Neon Christ and co-founding Comes with the Fall.
William Dwight Whitney
William Dwight Whitney (1827–1894) was an American linguist and Sanskrit scholar, professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology at Yale from 1854 to 1894, and first president of the American Philological Association.
William E. Balch
William E. Balch is a cell biologist and professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, since 1988, known for work on protein transport and folding.
William E. Barlow
William E. Barlow is an American biostatistician at Cancer Research and Biostatistics and the University of Washington who leads statistics for SWOG breast cancer trials.
William E. Bennett, Jr.
William E. Bennett, Jr. is an American pediatric gastroenterologist and health informatics researcher at Indiana University School of Medicine, where he directs the Pediatric Health Informatics Research Program and practices at Riley Hospital for Children.
William E. Bentley
William E. Bentley, born 1960 in Syracuse, New York, is an American bioengineer at the University of Maryland known for using electrodes and redox molecules to switch bacterial genes on.
William E. Boden
William E. Boden is an American cardiologist, Professor of Medicine at Boston University and Harvard lecturer, known for leading trials of stenting versus medical therapy in coronary disease.
William E. Boeing
William Edward Boeing was an American lumberman who founded the Boeing Airplane Company in Seattle in 1916 and built it into one of the world's leading aircraft manufacturers.
William E. Britt
William E. Britt, also known as William Earl Britt, is an American retired federal district judge in North Carolina, appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1980.
William E. Buhro
William E. Buhro is an American materials chemist at Washington University in St. Louis, best known for discovering the solution-liquid-solid synthesis of semiconductor quantum wires in 1995.
William E. Bunney
William E. Bunney is an American psychiatrist and Della Martin Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine, known for research establishing lithium for bipolar disorder and dopamine studies of mania.
William E. Conway Jr.
William E. Conway Jr., known as Bill Conway, is an American financier who co-founded The Carlyle Group in 1987 and serves as one of its Co-Chairmen.
William E. Dismukes
William E. Dismukes (1939–2017) was an American infectious diseases physician and clinical mycology researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, leading the NIAID Mycoses Study Group from 1978 to 2006.
William E. Evans
William E. Evans is an American pharmacist and pharmacogenomics researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, where he served as director and CEO from 2004 to 2014.
William E. Foster
William E. Foster, known as Bill Foster, is an American technology executive who co-founded Stratus Computer in 1980, led it as CEO, and took it public in 1983.
William E. Gordon
William E. Gordon (1918–2010) was an American electrical engineer who conceived and designed the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and taught at Cornell and Rice universities.
William E. Hahn
William E. Hahn is a molecular biologist at the University of Colorado known for showing that the mouse brain expresses a far larger and more varied set of messenger RNAs than other organs.
William E. Kastenberg
William E. Kastenberg is an American nuclear engineer and UC Berkeley professor emeritus, a National Academy of Engineering member known for reactor safety and risk analysis.
William E. Kraus
William E. Kraus is an American preventive cardiologist at Duke University School of Medicine, a distinguished professor since 2017, best known for the STRRIDE trials of how exercise amount and intensity affect cardiometabolic risk.
William E. Leonhard
William E. Leonhard (1914–2008) was an American civil engineer and construction executive who retired as an Air Force brigadier general in 1964, then led Parsons Corp. for 24 years.
William E. Mickols
William E. Mickols is an American physical chemist elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025 for developing next-generation reverse osmosis desalination membranes at Dow's FilmTec.
William E. Mitch
William E. Mitch is an American nephrologist known for defining the mechanisms of muscle wasting in chronic kidney disease and for clinical trials of restricted diets that slow kidney failure.
William E. Moerner
William E. Moerner (W. E. Moerner) is an American physical chemist at Stanford University who shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.
William E. Mustain
William E. Mustain is a chemical engineer and professor at the University of South Carolina whose research on fuel cells, electrolyzers, and batteries earned him a 2026 Electrochemical Society Fellowship.
William E. Rees
William E. Rees is a Canadian human ecologist and ecological economist, Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, best known as the originator of ecological footprint analysis.
William E. Segar
William E. Segar (1923–2021) was an American pediatric nephrologist and salt-and-water physiologist who co-developed the Holliday-Segar pediatric fluid formula and adapted peritoneal dialysis for infants.
William E. Seyfried
William E. Seyfried is an American aqueous geochemist and University of Minnesota professor known for experiments on hydrothermal vent fluids, including showing minerals catalyze abiotic hydrocarbon formation.
William E. Spicer
William E. (Bill) Spicer (1929–2004) was a Stanford engineering professor who established photoemission spectroscopy, formulated the three-step model, and helped found SSRL; his photocathode work aided night-vision devices.
William E. Splinter
William E. Splinter, also known as William Eldon Splinter, was an American agricultural engineer at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the first Nebraska engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering, in 1984.