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William Meanix
William H. Meanix (born 1892), American 440-yard hurdler for the Boston Athletic Association; set a 54.6 world record at Cambridge in 1915, AAU champion 1914-1915, later Tufts coach.
William Mell
William Mell is an American combustion and wildfire scientist, a PhD applied mathematician who won the 2001 Presidential Early Career Award and studies physics-based wildland fire simulation.
William Merritt Chase
William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) was an American painter and one of the era's most influential art teachers, known for portraits, still lifes, and Impressionist landscapes of urban parks and the Shinnecock Hills.
William Methwold
William Methwold (also spelled Methold, 1590 to 1653) was an English merchant and administrator in India for the East India Company, later a director in London, best known for his account of the kingdom of Golconda.
William Meynard
William Meynard, French freestyle sprint swimmer born 1987 in Marseille (CN Marseille), Olympic 4x100 m relay silver at Rio 2016, world and European relay titles, two-year break then comeback.
William Michael Haley
William Michael Haley, called Michael Haley, is a South Carolina Army National Guard officer, husband of Nikki Haley since 1996, first gentleman of South Carolina 2011, deployed to Afghanistan 2013 and the Horn of Africa 2023-24.
William Michael Harnett
William Michael Harnett (1848–1892) was an Irish-born American painter who led American trompe l'oeil still-life painting, depicting pipes, books, and currency with such realism that viewers felt they could grasp them.
William Michael Rossetti
William Michael Rossetti (1829–1919), English art critic, literary editor, and Inland Revenue civil servant; founder member and secretary of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, editor of The Germ, and editor-biographer of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti.
William Miller (preacher)
William Miller (1782–1849) was an American Baptist preacher of Low Hampton, New York, whose prediction that Christ would return about 1843 launched the Millerite movement.
William Minicozzi II
William P. Minicozzi II is an American geometric analyst, Singer Professor of Mathematics at MIT, known for his collaboration with Tobias Colding on minimal surfaces and mean curvature flow.
William Mitch
William A. Mitch is an American environmental engineer and professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, known for nitrosamine and disinfection byproduct research in water treatment.
William Mitchinson Hicks
William Mitchinson Hicks was a British mathematician and physicist known for work on vortex motion and as the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield.
William Moore (loyalist)
William Moore (Billy Moore), 1949–2009, Belfast loyalist and UVF Shankill Butchers member who supplied the gang's black taxi and knives, led it after Lenny Murphy's arrest, drew 14 life sentences in 1979, and was freed in 1998; died awaiting HET questioning over a 1974 murder.
William Morley Punshon
William Morley Punshon (1824–1881) was an English Wesleyan Methodist minister and platform lecturer, president of the Canadian Methodist conference for five terms and of the British conference in 1874.
William Morris
William Morris (1834–1896), English designer, writer, and socialist, led the Arts and Crafts movement, founded Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (1861, relaunched as Morris & Co. 1875) and the Kelmscott Press (1891), famed for 'useful or beautiful' design ideals.
William Morris Agency
The William Morris Agency (WMA) was an American talent agency founded in New York in 1898 as a vaudeville booking service, merging with Endeavor in 2009 to form WME.
William Morris Davis
William Morris Davis (1850–1934) was an American geographer, geologist, and meteorologist at Harvard whose cycle of erosion dominated the study of landforms from 1890 to 1950.
William Morton Wheeler
William Morton Wheeler (1865–1937) was an American entomologist and Harvard professor, the leading authority on ants and social insects and founder of modern myrmecology in North America.
William Moseley (actor)
William Moseley (William Peter Moseley, born 1987, Sheepscombe, Gloucestershire) is an English actor best known as Peter Pevensie in the Narnia films (2005-2010) and as Prince Liam in E!'s The Royals (2015-2018).
William Moulton Marston
William Moulton Marston (1893–1947), American Harvard psychologist, creator of DISC theory (Emotions of Normal People, 1928), pioneer of systolic blood pressure lie detection in the Frye case, and inventor of Wonder Woman under the pen name Charles Moulton.
William Mulholland
William Mulholland was an Irish-born, self-taught hydraulic engineer who led Los Angeles's water system from 1886 to 1928 and built the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct from the Owens Valley, completed in 1913.
William Murdoch
William Murdoch, often spelled Murdock, was a Scottish engineer and inventor who created the first practical coal-gas lighting and made important contributions to steam-engine design at Boulton & Watt.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705–1793), Scottish-born Lord Chief Justice of King's Bench 1756–1788, founder of English commercial law, whose 1772 Somerset v Stewart ruling freed James Somerset and shaped abolition.
William N. Hubbard Jr.
William N. Hubbard Jr. (1919–2018) was an American physician who served as Dean of the University of Michigan Medical School and President of Upjohn's Pharmaceutical Division.
William N. Kelley
William N. Kelley is an American physician-scientist who defined the enzyme defects underlying Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and gout, and served as dean of Penn's medical school.
William N. Lipscomb
William N. Lipscomb was an American physical chemist at Harvard University who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the structure and bonding of boranes.
William N. Spellacy
William N. Spellacy (died 2015) was an American obstetrician-gynecologist and maternal-fetal medicine researcher at the University of South Florida, elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1992.
William N. Valentine
William N. Valentine was an American hematologist and physician-scientist who, as chairman of medicine at UCLA, established inherited red-cell enzyme deficiencies as a major cause of hereditary hemolytic anemia.
William N. Zagotta
William N. Zagotta is a biophysicist and professor at the University of Washington who studies ion channel gating, especially channels regulated by cAMP and cGMP.
William Navarro
William Raniel Navarro (born 1997) is a Filipino small forward, 6'6", ex-Ateneo UAAP champion, PBA NorthPort and Magnolia wing, 2025-26 Busan KCC Egis KBL import, and Gilas Pilipinas national team player.