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William H. Hansmire
William H. Hansmire is an American tunnel engineer who spent about five decades at Parsons Brinckerhoff and WSP and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.
William H. Harris
William H. Harris is an orthopedic researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, known for the Harris Hip Score of 1969 and landmark papers on joint replacement.
William H. Hastie
William Henry Hastie (1904–1976), American jurist and civil rights lawyer; first Black federal judge (Virgin Islands, 1937), first Black federal appeals judge (Third Circuit, 1949), Howard Law dean, Virgin Islands governor, 1943 Spingarn Medalist.
William H. Herman
William H. Herman is an American physician-scientist at the University of Michigan who led economic analyses of the Diabetes Prevention Program and chaired the National Clinical Care Commission.
William H. Huggins
William H. Huggins was an American electrical and biomedical engineer at Johns Hopkins known for an algebraic theory of signal analysis and a theory of hearing.
William H. Klein
William H. Klein (W. H. Klein) was a molecular biologist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center whose 1993 Nature paper showed myogenin is essential for skeletal muscle.
William H. Konigsberg
William H. Konigsberg is an American molecular biologist and biochemist, Professor Emeritus at Yale School of Medicine, known for sequencing the Qβ coat protein and determining the RB69 DNA polymerase structure.
William H. Macy
William H. Macy, born William Hall Macy Jr. in 1950, is an American actor known for anxious everymen: Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo (1996) and Frank Gallagher on Shameless (2011–2021).
William H. McClain
William H. McClain is a molecular biologist and emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for studies of transfer RNA structure, processing, and amino acid identity in bacteria.
William H. McRaven
William H. McRaven (born 1955) is a retired U.S. Navy four-star admiral and SEAL, ninth commander of USSOCOM, planner of the 2011 bin Laden raid, later UT System chancellor and leadership author.
William H. Miller
William Hughes Miller, born in 1941, is an American theoretical chemist at UC Berkeley known for the classical S-matrix, the reaction path Hamiltonian, and the semiclassical initial value representation.
William H. Oldendorf
William H. Oldendorf (1925–1992) was an American neurologist at UCLA who wrote the first paper on cross-sectional X-ray brain scanning and received the first patent for such a scanner.
William H. Orrick III
William H. Orrick III, also known as William Horsley Orrick, III, is an American jurist serving as a senior US district judge in Northern California since 2023.
William H. Phillips
William H. Phillips, also known as William Hewitt Phillips, was an American aerospace engineer at NASA Langley known for his work on aircraft stability and control.
William H. Pitsenbarger
William H. Pitsenbarger (William Hart Pitsenbarger) was a United States Air Force pararescueman killed during the Vietnam War in 1966 while treating and defending wounded infantrymen.
William H. Press
William H. Press is an American computer scientist and astrophysicist, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, senior author of Numerical Recipes and co-creator of the Press–Schechter formalism.
William H. Pryor Jr.
William H. Pryor Jr. (born 1962, Mobile, Alabama) is chief judge of the Eleventh Circuit (since 2020), former Alabama attorney general 1997-2004 who prosecuted Roy Moore, recess-appointed in 2004, confirmed 2005, and a 2016 Trump Supreme Court shortlister.
William H. Riker
William H. Riker (1920–1993) was an American political scientist at the University of Rochester, considered the founder of positive political theory, applying game theory to politics.
William H. Rippard
William H. Rippard is an American condensed matter physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who leads the Spin Electronics Group and won a 2007 PECASE award.
William H. Robinson
William H. Robinson, born 1967, is an American physician-scientist who is Professor of Medicine and Chief of Immunology and Rheumatology at Stanford, studying autoimmune disease proteomics.
William H. Schlesinger
William H. Schlesinger, born 1950, is an American biogeochemist and ecosystem ecologist known for quantifying soil carbon storage and serving as President of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies.
William H. Seward
William Henry Seward (1801–1872), New York governor, U.S. senator, and Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson, 1861–1869; managed Civil War diplomacy and negotiated the 1867 Alaska Purchase for $7.2 million.
William H. Steele
William H. Steele, born in 1951, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
William H. Stein
William H. Stein was an American biochemist at the Rockefeller Institute who developed quantitative amino acid analysis, determined the structure of ribonuclease, and shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
William H. Sweet
William Herbert Sweet (1910–2001) was an American neurosurgeon, professor at Harvard Medical School, and chief of neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for pioneering pain treatment and brain imaging.
William H. Webster
William H. Webster (1924–2025), American federal judge and the only person to head both the FBI (1978–1987) and CIA (1987–1991); also namesake of the 1988 Supreme Court case Webster v. Doe.
William H. Zoller
William H. Zoller is an American analytical chemist and University of Washington professor emeritus known for measuring trace metals in remote air and volcanic emissions.
William Hague
William Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond, is a British Conservative politician who led the Conservative Party from 1997 to 2001 and was Foreign Secretary from 2010 to 2014.
William Haines
William (Billy) Haines, 1900–1973, American silent film star and interior designer, MGM's top box-office draw around 1930; refused Louis B. Mayer's demand to enter a sham marriage, left films, and ran William Haines Designs with partner Jimmie Shields.
William Hale Thompson
William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson (1869-1944), three-term Republican mayor of Chicago (1915-1923, 1927-1931), patronage machine builder, "America First" school-textbook crusader, and the last Republican mayor of Chicago after his 1931 loss to Anton Cermak.