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William R. L. Anderegg
William R. L. Anderegg, known as Bill Anderegg, is an ecosystem ecologist and professor at the University of Utah who studies how drought and climate change affect forests.
William R. Lucas
William R. Lucas (1922–2025) was an American aerospace engineer and materials scientist who directed NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center from 1974 to 1986, retiring after the Challenger disaster.
William R. McClure
William R. McClure was a molecular biologist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, known for a kinetic dissection of bacterial transcription initiation and a 1983 compilation of E. coli promoter sequences.
William R. Moses
William R. Moses (William Remington Moses, born 1959, Los Angeles) is an American actor known for Cole Gioberti on Falcon Crest, Ken Malansky in the Perry Mason TV movies, Jack Davis in the Jane Doe films, and Jeff Webber on General Hospital.
William R. Murden Jr.
William R. Murden Jr. (1922–1997) was an American dredging and harbor engineer who spent 44 years with the US Army Corps of Engineers and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979.
William R. Prindle
William R. Prindle, also known as William Roscoe Prindle, was an American materials engineer who led industrial glass and ceramics R&D at Corning and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.
William R. Pulleyblank
William R. Pulleyblank is a Canadian operations researcher who directed mathematical sciences at IBM Research, helped create the Blue Gene supercomputer, and now teaches at West Point.
William R. Schowalter
William R. Schowalter is an American chemical engineer known for work in rheology and colloidal dispersions, who served as dean of engineering at Illinois from 1989 to 2001.
William R. Sears
William R. Sears (1913–2002) was an American aeronautical engineer and aerodynamicist, a student of Theodore von Kármán known for the Sears–Haack body, unsteady airfoil theory, and adaptive-wall wind tunnels.
William R. Sellers
William R. Sellers is an American cancer biologist who directs the Broad Institute's Cancer Program, teaches at Harvard Medical School, and codiscovered EGFR mutations in lung cancer.
William R. Tolbert Jr.
William R. Tolbert Jr. was a Liberian politician and Baptist pastor who served as president of Liberia from 1971 until his assassination in the 1980 coup by Samuel Doe.
William R. Young
William R. Young is an Australian-born theoretical oceanographer and professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, known for his 1982 work on potential vorticity homogenization in ocean gyres.
William Ragsdale
William Ragsdale (Robert William Ragsdale, born 1961, El Dorado, Arkansas) is an American actor best known as Charley Brewster in Fright Night (1985) and Part 2 (1988), Herman Brooks on Herman's Head, Eugene Jerome on Broadway, and Gary Hawkins on Justified.
William Ralph Brody
William Ralph Brody is an American radiologist and electrical engineer who served as the 13th president of Johns Hopkins University from 1996 to 2009 and led the Salk Institute from 2009 to 2015.
William Ralph Inge
William Ralph Inge was an English Anglican priest and Christian Platonist who served as dean of St Paul's Cathedral from 1911 to 1934, nicknamed "the Gloomy Dean."
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper publisher who built the largest publishing empire in the United States and is remembered for yellow journalism and Citizen Kane.
William Rappard
William Emmanuel Rappard (1883–1958), Swiss economist and diplomat, directed the League of Nations Mandates Section, sat on the Permanent Mandates Commission, co-founded the Geneva Graduate Institute, and gave his name to the WTO's Centre William Rappard.
William Rarita
William Rarita was an American theoretical physicist who, with Julian Schwinger, formulated the 1941 Rarita–Schwinger equation for spin-3/2 particles and later worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.
William Redfield (actor)
William Redfield, born William Henry Redfield, was an American actor best known as Dale Harding in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and for the memoir Letters from an Actor (1967).
William Redington Hewlett
William Redington Hewlett (1913–2001) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto garage in 1939 and invented the audio oscillator that became its first product.
William Rees-Mogg
William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (1928–2012), British journalist who edited The Times 1967–1981, wrote the 'Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?' Jagger editorial, later BBC vice-chairman, Arts Council chairman, and a Thatcher-created crossbench life peer.
William Reeves (hedge fund manager)
William Reeves, known as Bill Reeves, is a trader who co-founded BlueCrest Capital Management, one of Europe's largest hedge fund firms, with Michael Platt in London in 2000.
William Regal
William Regal (Darren Kenneth Matthews), English technical wrestler from Blackpool; WCW and WWE champion, 2008 King of the Ring, NXT General Manager and WWE talent-development executive.
William Rehnquist
William Hubbs Rehnquist (1924–2005), 16th Chief Justice of the United States (1986–2005) after serving as associate justice from 1972, known for federalism cases like Lopez and Usery, presiding over the Clinton impeachment trial, and Bush v. Gore.
William Renninger
William Renninger is an American experimental physicist and associate professor at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics, known for all-normal-dispersion mode-locked fiber lasers and the 2025 PECASE award.
William Richard Peltier
William Richard Peltier is a Canadian geophysicist at the University of Toronto who founded the modern theory of glacial isostatic adjustment and built the ICE-5G through ICE-7G ice-sheet reconstructions.
William Riker
William T. Riker (Will Riker, Number One), fictional Starfleet first officer of the Enterprise under Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, born 2335 in Valdez, Alaska; later captain of the Titan, husband of Deanna Troi, played by Jonathan Frakes.
William Roache
William Roache, also known as Bill Roache, born 25 April 1932, is the English actor who has played Ken Barlow in ITV's Coronation Street since its first episode on 9 December 1960, holding the Guinness World Record as the longest-serving TV soap star.
William Roberts (Australian businessman)
William Roberts is an Australian businessman who co-founded IREN, formerly Iris Energy, in Sydney in 2018 and serves as Co-CEO alongside his brother and co-founder Daniel Roberts.
William Robertson
William Robertson (1721–1793) was a Church of Scotland minister, historian, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh who led the Kirk's Moderate party and wrote four major Enlightenment histories.