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William Godwin
William Godwin (1756–1836), English philosopher and novelist, founder of philosophical anarchism through An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) and author of Caleb Williams; husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, father of Mary Shelley.
William Golding
William Golding (1911–1993), British novelist, Nobel laureate 1983 and Booker winner 1980 for Rites of Passage; author of Lord of the Flies (1954), a rebuttal of The Coral Island that sold over fifty million copies.
William Goldman
William Goldman (1931–2018), American screenwriter and novelist, won Oscars for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men, wrote The Princess Bride and Adventures in the Screen Trade, and coined "Nobody knows anything."
William Goldsmith
William Goldsmith (born 1972) is a Seattle drummer, founding member of Sunny Day Real Estate and original Foo Fighters drummer, who left in 1997 after Grohl re-recorded The Colour and the Shape drums, later playing in The Fire Theft and Assertion.
William Gomes
William Gomes (born 2006, Aracaju, Brazil) is a Brazilian right winger for FC Porto, signed from São Paulo in 2025 for €10 million; he won the 2025-26 Primeira Liga and renewed to 2031 with a €100 million release clause.
William Gordon Lennox
William Gordon Lennox (1884–1960) was an American neurologist at Harvard and a founder of modern epilepsy research, pioneering clinical EEG, the ketogenic diet, and Lennox–Gastaut syndrome.
William Gosling
William Sullivan Gosling (1869-1952), English footballer and Scots Guards officer; won 1900 Olympic gold in men's football with Upton Park FC for Great Britain; later High Sheriff of Essex.
William Gould Young
William Gould Young (1902–1980) was an American physical organic chemist at UCLA, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1951 and known for work on the isomeric butenes and allylic rearrangements.
William Gowers (neurologist)
Sir William Richard Gowers (1845–1915) was a British neurologist at the National Hospital, Queen Square, whose Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System became the "Bible of Neurology".
William Grant & Sons
William Grant & Sons, independent family-owned Scottish spirits distiller founded 1887 by William Grant, maker of Glenfiddich, The Balvenie, Grant's, Hendrick's, Monkey Shoulder and Tullamore D.E.W.; six generations of family ownership, 2025 turnover £1.76bn.
William Grant Still
William Grant Still (1895-1978), the 'Dean of African-American Composers', an American composer of over 150 concert works; his Afro-American Symphony (1931) was the first by a Black composer performed by a major American orchestra.
William Greenfield
William Greenfield (1799–1831) was a self-taught London philologist and biblical scholar who led the British and Foreign Bible Society's editorial work, wrote a Greek lexicon, and defended the Sranan New Testament.
William Grossman
William Grossman is an American cardiologist known for research on the heart's diastolic function and as editor of the standard catheterization textbook Grossman's Cardiac Catheterization, Angiography and Intervention.
William Guarnere
William "Wild Bill" Guarnere (1923-2014), South Philadelphia staff sergeant in Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne; D-Day, Market Garden, Bastogne leg loss; Silver Star; Band of Brothers.
William Guerin Gray
William Guerin Gray is an American engineer-scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who developed TCAT for modeling flow and transport in porous media.
William H Greene
William H Greene (born 1951) is an American econometrician, Professor Emeritus at NYU Stern, author of the graduate textbook Econometric Analysis and developer of LIMDEP and NLOGIT.
William H. Albritton III
William H. Albritton III, also known as William Harold Albritton III, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
William H. Alsup
William H. Alsup, born 1945 in Jackson, Mississippi, is a former US district judge for the Northern District of California, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1999.
William H. Bowen
William H. Bowen (1933–2016) was an Irish-born oral biologist and dental caries researcher who chaired Dental Research at the University of Rochester and led the NIH Caries Prevention Branch.
William H. Casey
William H. Casey is an American aqueous and coordination chemist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, who studies reactions between water, rock, and minerals using metal aquo clusters.
William H. Crawford
William H. Crawford (1772-1834), Georgia senator, minister to France, Secretary of War and Treasury (1816-1825) under Madison and Monroe, and third-place candidate in the contested 1824 presidential election.
William H. Crosby
William H. Crosby, also known as W H Crosby, was an American hematologist who led hematology research at Walter Reed and invented the Crosby-Kugler intestinal biopsy capsule.
William H. Danforth
William H. Danforth (1870–1955) was an American businessman in St. Louis, Missouri, who founded the horse and mule feed company that became Ralston Purina, leading it as president from 1896 to 1932.
William H. Daughaday
William H. Daughaday (1918–2013) was an American endocrinologist at Washington University in St. Louis who founded modern growth hormone research and formulated the somatomedin hypothesis.
William H. Dietz
William H. Dietz is an American physician-scientist and professor at George Washington University, known as the father of childhood obesity research and a CDC division director from 1997 to 2012.
William H. Fishman
William H. Fishman (1914–2001) was a Canadian-born American biochemist who pioneered oncodevelopmental biology, founded the Tufts Cancer Research Center, and co-founded the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation.
William H. Frishman
William H. Frishman, born 1946, is an American cardiologist and pharmacology researcher, Chair Emeritus of Medicine at New York Medical College, known for NEJM beta-blocker reviews and Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapeutics.
William H. Gaasch
William H. Gaasch (1937–2022) was an American cardiologist at Tufts Medical Center and the Lahey Clinic whose work on diastolic function shaped how clinicians diagnose heart failure.
William H. Gass
William H. Gass, born William Howard Gass (1924–2017), was an American novelist, essayist, and philosopher who coined the word metafiction and won the American Book Award for The Tunnel.
William H. Gray III
William H. Gray III (1941–2013), Pennsylvania congressman, Baptist pastor, and UNCF president; first Black House Budget Committee chair and first Black majority whip, sponsor of the 1986 Anti-Apartheid Act.