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William Lucking
William Lucking (Frederick William Lucking Jr., 1941–2021), American character actor from Vicksburg, Michigan; played Piney Winston on Sons of Anarchy and Colonel Lynch on The A-Team; over 150 screen credits; co-founded Santa Paula Theater Center.
William Luther Pierce
William Luther Pierce, also known as William L. Pierce, was an American neo-Nazi who founded the National Alliance in 1974 and wrote The Turner Diaries under the name Andrew Macdonald.
William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp
William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (1872–1938), English Liberal politician and Governor of New South Wales 1899–1901, later Asquith's lord president; exiled in 1931 and Waugh's model for Lord Marchmain.
William Lynch speech
The William Lynch speech, or Willie Lynch letter, is a purported 1712 James River address on controlling enslaved people by division; historians widely identify it as a 20th-century hoax.
William Lyndwood
William Lyndwood (c. 1375–1446) was an English canon lawyer and bishop of St David's, best known for the Provinciale, his glossed collection of the legislation of the province of Canterbury.
William Lyon Mackenzie
William Lyon Mackenzie (1795–1861), Scottish-born Canadian journalist, first mayor of Toronto, and leader of the failed 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion; grandfather of Prime Minister Mackenzie King.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
William Lyon Mackenzie King was Canada's longest-serving Prime Minister, leading the Liberal Party from 1919 until 1948. His decisions contributed to Canada's development as an influential middle power.
William M Gelbart
William M Gelbart (1945–2015) was an American Drosophila geneticist and Harvard professor known for work on the decapentaplegic signaling pathway and for founding the FlyBase database.
William M. Bonner
William M. Bonner is an American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute who discovered the histone variants H2AX and H2AZ and the DNA damage marker gamma-H2AX.
William M. Branham
William M. Branham, also known as William Marrion Branham, was an American faith healer of the postwar healing revival whose recorded sermons founded the worldwide Message movement.
William M. Brown (electrical engineer)
William M. Brown is an American electrical engineer and synthetic aperture radar researcher who founded ERIM and served as Chief Scientist of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Sensors Directorate.
William M. Clark
William M. Clark was an American biochemist and DeLamar Professor at Johns Hopkins who first used "buffer" and "pH" in a 1915 paper, then measured oxidation-reduction potentials of organic dyes.
William M. Clemons
William M. (Bil) Clemons, Jr. is an American structural biologist and Caltech biochemistry professor known for determining the small ribosomal subunit structure and the protein translocation channel.
William M. Conley
William M. Conley, also known as William Martin Conley, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Wisconsin since 2010.
William M. Crist
William M. Crist is an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist whose career at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital included a 1991 NEJM study linking scheduled epipodophyllotoxin therapy to secondary leukemia in children.
William M. Daley
William M. Daley (born 1948) is a Chicago lawyer-banker and son of Richard J. Daley; he was Clinton's 32nd Commerce Secretary (1997-2000), Gore's 2000 campaign chair, and Obama's White House chief of staff (2011-2012).
William M. Fairbank
William M. Fairbank (1917–1989) was an American experimental physicist at Stanford University who discovered the quantization of magnetic flux in superconductors and built its gravitational physics program.
William M. Grady
William M. Grady is an American gastroenterologist and cancer geneticist who leads the Gastrointestinal Cancer Prevention Program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle.
William M. Holt
William M. Holt is an American semiconductor engineer who spent 42 years at Intel, retiring in 2016 as head of its Technology and Manufacturing Group.
William M. Kays
William M. Kays (1920–2018) was an American mechanical engineer and Stanford dean who co-authored the standard references Compact Heat Exchangers and Convective Heat and Mass Transfer.
William M. Lee
William M. Lee is an American hepatologist and Professor Emeritus at UT Southwestern in Dallas who founded the Acute Liver Failure Study Group and documented acetaminophen-induced liver injury.
William M. McCormack
William M. McCormack (born 1938) is an American infectious diseases physician known for research on sexually transmitted infections, and Chief of Infectious Diseases at SUNY Downstate from 1982 to 2011.
William M. Ray II
William M. Ray II, also known as William McCrary Ray, II, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Georgia since 2018.
William M. Skretny
William M. Skretny, born 1945, is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge in the Western District of New York from 1990.
William M. Thurlbeck
William M. Thurlbeck, known to colleagues as Whitey, was a South African-born Canadian pulmonary pathologist (1928–1997) who showed that small airways are the major site of obstruction in COPD.
William M. Tierney
William M. Tierney is an American physician and health services researcher known for building electronic health record systems in the United States and East Africa.
William M. Tweed
William M. "Boss" Tweed (1823-1878), boss of Tammany Hall, led the Tweed Ring that stole tens of millions from New York City, notably via the $13 million courthouse; convicted 1873, escaped 1875, died in prison.
William M. White
William M. White, also published as W. M. White, is an American isotope geochemist and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University who received the Urey Medal in 2022.
William MacAskill
William MacAskill, born William Crouch, Scottish moral philosopher, Oxford associate professor 2015-2024, cofounder of effective altruism, Giving What We Can, and 80,000 Hours; author of Doing Good Better and What We Owe the Future, advocate of longtermism.
William MacDonald Sinclair
William MacDonald Sinclair (1850–1917) was a Church of England priest, Vicar of St Stephen's Westminster and then Archdeacon of London and Canon of St Paul's for twenty-two years.