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William Smith (actor)
William Smith (1933–2021), American character actor, played Falconetti in Rich Man, Poor Man, Joe Riley in Laredo, and villains in Any Which Way You Can, Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn; former Air Force NSA recruit.
William Soeryadjaya
William Soeryadjaya, born Tjia Kian Lion, was an Indonesian businessman who co-founded Astra International in 1957 and sold the family's shares in 1992 to repay Bank Summa's depositors.
William Spaniel
William Spaniel is a political scientist at the University of Pittsburgh who studies interstate conflict, nuclear weapons, and terrorism, and created the Game Theory 101 YouTube channel.
William Spreen
William Spreen (William R. Spreen) is a pharmaceutical scientist and Vice President at ViiV Healthcare who led clinical development of long-acting injectable cabotegravir for HIV.
William Stafford Noble
William Stafford Noble, formerly William Noble Grundy, is an American computational biologist and professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington, known for the MEME Suite of motif-discovery tools.
William Stapleton
Sir William Stapleton, 1st Baronet, was an Irish-born planter and colonial administrator who served as Governor of the Leeward Islands from 1672 until his death in 1686.
William Starling Sullivant
William Starling Sullivant (1803–1873) was a self-taught American bryologist of Columbus, Ohio, who wrote Icones Muscorum (1864), the standard account of eastern North American mosses.
William Steig
William Steig (1907–2003), American cartoonist and children's author, the 'King of Cartoons' of The New Yorker; wrote Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Caldecott Medal 1970) and Shrek! (1990), basis of the DreamWorks films.
William Stewart Halsted
William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922), first surgeon-in-chief of Johns Hopkins, pioneered the surgical residency model, rubber gloves, and the radical mastectomy, while hiding a lifelong cocaine and morphine addiction acquired during anesthesia research.
William Still
William Still (1821-1902, some sources 1819), African American Philadelphia abolitionist, "Father of the Underground Railroad," aided 600-800 freedom seekers 1847-1865 as Vigilance Committee chairman, and published The Underground Railroad (1872).
William Stimpson
William Stimpson (1832-1872), American naturalist and zoologist, North Pacific Exploring Expedition naturalist, founder of the Smithsonian's invertebrate department, and Chicago Academy of Sciences director whose collections burned in 1871.
William Stokoe
William C. Stokoe (1919–2000) was a hearing American linguist who, as English department chairman at Gallaudet College, published the first linguistic analysis of American Sign Language in 1960.
William Straus Jr.
William Straus Jr., also known as William Louis Straus Jr. (1900–1981), was an American anatomist and biological anthropologist at Johns Hopkins University known for reanalyzing Neanderthal posture.
William Street
"William Street" is a sixteen-line poem by the Australian poet Kenneth Slessor, published in 1939, in which the speaker insists on the beauty of a poor Sydney street most would call ugly.
William Stryker
William Stryker: Marvel Comics anti-mutant villain, also Reverend William Stryker, created by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson in X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills (1982); he kills his mutant-born son, leads the Purifiers, and differs from the Brian Cox film colonel.
William Stuart-Houston
William Stuart-Houston, born William Patrick Hitler (1911–1987), was the Liverpool-born half-nephew of Adolf Hitler who blackmailed his uncle, wrote "Why I Hate My Uncle" (Look, 1939), and served in the US Navy from 1944.
William Studier
William Studier, born 1936 in Waverly, Iowa, is an American biophysicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory whose lab cloned T7 RNA polymerase, underpinning mRNA vaccine manufacture.
William Styles
William Kensett Styles (1874-1940), British Olympic sport shooter; won 1908 London gold in 25-yard small-bore rifle disappearing target on a count-back at 45 points, and 1912 Stockholm team silver; son-in-law of shooter William Pimm.
William Styron
William Styron (1925–2006), American novelist of the Virginia Tidewater, wrote Lie Down in Darkness, The Confessions of Nat Turner (Pulitzer 1968), Sophie's Choice, and the depression memoir Darkness Visible.
William Suff
William Lester Suff, the "Riverside Prostitute Killer," a California death-row serial killer convicted in 1995 of murdering 12 women in Riverside County after serving 10 Texas prison years for his infant daughter's 1973 murder.
William Summer Johnson
William Summer Johnson (1913–1995) was an American synthetic organic chemist and Stanford professor, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1954, known for cationic polyene cyclization and the Johnson–Claisen rearrangement.
William Sutherland (Australian physicist)
William Sutherland (1859–1911) was a Scottish-born Australian theoretical physicist in Melbourne who published 78 papers without a laboratory and derived the diffusion equation in 1904, months before Einstein.
William Swan Sonnenschein
William Swan Sonnenschein (1855-1931), later Stallybrass, British publisher; founded Swan Sonnenschein & Co. in 1878, published early English Marx and Freud translations, the Social Science Series, and The Best Books bibliography.
William T. Abraham
William T. Abraham is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at The Ohio State University who led landmark heart failure trials, including the MIRACLE trial of cardiac resynchronization therapy.
William T. Anderson
William T. "Bloody Bill" Anderson (c. 1837-1839 to October 1864) was a Confederate guerrilla captain in Civil War Missouri, a leader in the 1863 Lawrence Massacre and the 1864 Centralia Massacre, killed at Albany by forces under Samuel P. Cox.
William T. Belo
William T. Belo is a Filipino retail executive who founded Wilcon Depot in 1977 as a small Quezon City hardware store, now the Philippines' largest home improvement retailer.
William T. Carpenter
William T. Carpenter is an American psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher who directed the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center from 1977 to 2013 and defined deficit schizophrenia.
William T. Cefalu
William T. Cefalu is an American physician-scientist in diabetes and endocrinology, director of NIDDK's diabetes division since 2019 and formerly chief scientific, medical, and mission officer of the American Diabetes Association.
William T. Collins
William T. Collins is the name of several unrelated Americans, including a New York attorney, an automotive engineer credited with the Pontiac GTO, and a 19th-century federal pension agent.
William T. Freeman
William T. Freeman is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, known for steerable filters and for sharing the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Physics.