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William Newsom

William Alfred Newsom III (1934–2018) was an American judge on the California Court of Appeal from 1978 to 1995 and the father of California Governor Gavin Newsom.

William Nierenberg

William Nierenberg (1919–2000) was an American physicist who measured the spins and magnetic moments of atomic nuclei at Berkeley, then directed the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for 21 years.

William Norris (business executive)

William Norris (1911–2006) was an American electrical engineer who founded Control Data Corporation in 1957 and led it for 29 years as it built the first supercomputers.

William Nylander

William Nylander, Swedish NHL right winger for the Toronto Maple Leafs, drafted 8th overall in 2014; $92M/8-year extension ($11.5M AAV) in 2024, 45-goal 2024-25, 2017 Worlds gold and MVP for Sweden.

William O. Aydelotte

William O. Aydelotte (1910–1996) was an American historian at the University of Iowa, a pioneer of social science history who statistically analyzed the 1841–47 House of Commons.

William O. Baker

William O. Baker (1915–2005) was an American polymer chemist who led research at Bell Labs, its president from 1973 to 1979, and a longtime presidential intelligence adviser.

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William O. Bertelsman

William Odis Bertelsman, born 1936 in Cincinnati, is a senior judge of the Eastern District of Kentucky, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1979 and chief judge from 1991 to 1998.

William O. Dobbins (1932–2011) was an American gastroenterologist and physician-scientist who held professorships at Duke, George Washington, and Michigan, established rectal suction biopsy for Hirschsprung's disease, and researched Whipple's disease.

William O. Douglas

William O. Douglas (1898–1980), U.S. Supreme Court associate justice 1939–1975, longest tenure in Court history at over 36 years; FDR appointee, SEC chairman, author of Griswold v. Connecticut, environmental advocate.

William O. Weigle

William O. Weigle (1927–2001) was an American immunologist who helped found The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla and showed how T and B cells become tolerant.

William O'Brien State Park

William O'Brien State Park: Minnesota's first metro-area state park (est. 1947), on the St. Croix River near Marine on St. Croix; about 1,880 acres, 12 miles of trails, Lake Alice, and a 2025 accessibility project.

William O'Dwyer

William O'Dwyer (1890–1964), Irish-born American politician, 100th mayor of New York City 1946–1950, Brooklyn DA who prosecuted Murder, Inc., later ambassador to Mexico; resigned amid police corruption scandal.

William O'Neal (informant)

William O'Neal (1949–1990), FBI informant, infiltrated the Illinois Black Panther Party as Fred Hampton's security chief, supplied the apartment floor plan used in the December 4, 1969 raid that killed Hampton and Mark Clark, was exposed in 1973, and died in 1990.

William O'Neill (Ohio judge)

William M. O'Neill (born 1947), Ohio judge, nurse, and Army veteran; 156th justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio 2013–2018, earlier Eleventh District appeals judge; distinct from C. William O'Neill, governor and chief justice.

William of Champeaux

William of Champeaux (Guillaume de Champeaux, c. 1070–1121) was a French Scholastic philosopher and theologian, later bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne, known for his theories of universals.

William of Corbeil

William of Corbeil, born in Normandy, was an Augustinian canon who served as archbishop of Canterbury from 1123 until his death in 1136, becoming papal legate in 1126 and crowning King Stephen in 1135.

William of Malmesbury

William of Malmesbury (c. 1090 – c. 1143) was a Benedictine monk of Malmesbury Abbey, regarded as England's greatest historian after Bede, author of the Gesta Regum Anglorum.

William of Ockham

William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347), English Franciscan philosopher and theologian, Venerabilis Inceptor, founder of nominalism and namesake of Ockham's Razor; exiled in Munich after clashing with Pope John XXII.

William of Rosenberg

William of Rosenberg (Vilém z Rožmberka, 1535–1592) was a Bohemian nobleman and diplomat who headed the House of Rosenberg and served as High Burgrave of Bohemia.

William of Sherwood

William of Sherwood, also known as William of Shyreswood, was a 13th-century English logician at the University of Paris whose Introduction to Logic was one of the century's four most influential logic textbooks.

William of Tyre

William of Tyre (Guillaume de Tyr) was archbishop of Tyre from 1175 and chancellor of the kingdom of Jerusalem, and a historian of the crusader states.

William of Wykeham

William of Wykeham (1324–1404) was an English bishop of Winchester and royal administrator who rose from a peasant family to found Winchester College and New College, Oxford.

William Ogren

William L. Ogren was an American plant physiologist with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service at Urbana, Illinois, who genetically dissected photorespiration and Rubisco in Arabidopsis.

William Oh

William Oh is an American neonatologist who built the neonatal intensive care program at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence and studied fluid management in premature infants.

William Oliver (quantum information scientist)

William D. Oliver is a quantum information scientist and MIT professor who works on superconducting qubits, directs the MIT Center for Quantum Engineering, and co-founded Atlantic Quantum, acquired by Google in 2025.

William Orbit

William Orbit (William Mark Wainwright, 1956–2026), English ambient-electronica producer behind Madonna's Ray of Light, Blur's 13, All Saints' Pure Shores, the Strange Cargo series and Pieces in a Modern Style.

William Orme

William Orme (1787–1830) was a Scottish-born Congregationalist minister, biographer, and bibliographer who served Perth and Camberwell Green, led the London Missionary Society as foreign secretary, and wrote memoirs of John Owen and Richard Baxter.

William Oscar Emil Oesterley

William Oscar Emil Oesterley (1866–1950) was an English Anglican clergyman and Semitics scholar who taught Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis at King's College London and wrote prolifically on the Apocrypha.