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Bill Craig
Bill Craig (William Norval Craig, 1945–2017), American breaststroke swimmer and USC Trojan; won 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold in the 4×100 m medley relay with the first-ever sub-four-minute swim (3:58.4 world record) and 1963 Pan American gold.
Bill Demong
Bill Demong (born 1980), American Nordic combined skier, five-time Olympian 1998-2014; won 2010 Vancouver large hill gold, the first U.S. Olympic Nordic skiing gold, plus 2009 World Championship gold and nine World Cup wins.
Bill DeMott
Bill DeMott is a retired American professional wrestler and trainer known in WCW and WWE as Hugh Morrus and General Rection, later head coach of the WWE Performance Center.
Bill Denz
Bill Denz (Mathew William Denz, 1951–1983), New Zealand mountaineer and guide from Dunedin; pioneer of solo and winter face climbing in the Southern Alps and Darrans; killed by avalanche on Makalu's West Pillar, 3 October 1983.
Bill Devenish
Bill (William) Devenish is an Australian swimmer who won 100m freestyle bronze and two relay golds, including a 4x200m world record, at the 1970 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games, then competed in masters swimming for NSW clubs.
Bill Elliott
Bill Elliott (William Clyde Elliott II, born 1955) is a NASCAR Hall of Fame driver from Dawsonville, Georgia; 1988 Cup champion, 44 wins, 55 poles, 1985 Winston Million winner, record 16 Most Popular Driver Awards, Class of 2015.
Bill Forrester
Bill Forrester (William Ronald Forrester, Jr., born 1957), American swimmer: 1976 Olympic 200m butterfly bronze, 1975 and 1978 world champion, 4x200m freestyle relay world record holder, later GCAT coach.
Bill Goldberg
Bill Goldberg (William Scott Goldberg, born 1966), American wrestler and former NFL defensive tackle; 173-0 WCW streak, WCW and WWE world champion, 2018 WWE Hall of Famer, retired against Gunther in July 2025.
Bill Graber
Bill Graber (William Noe Graber, 1911-1996), American USC pole vaulter; set a 4.37 m world record at the 1932 Olympic Trials, placed 4th at the 1932 and 5th at the 1936 Olympics.
Bill Hosket
Bill Hosket (Wilmer Frederick Hosket, born 1946), Dayton, Ohio basketball player: 1968 Ohio State captain and Big Ten champion, 1968 Olympic gold medalist, and 1970 NBA champion with the New York Knicks.
Bill Hougland
Bill Hougland (William Marion Hougland, 1930-2017), Kansas Jayhawks guard on the 1952 NCAA champions, won Olympic basketball gold at Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne 1956 as 1956 captain, then led Koch Oil.
Bill Hoyt
Bill Hoyt (William Welles Hoyt, 1875–1954), American pole vaulter and physician; won the first Olympic pole vault gold at Athens 1896 with 3.30 m for Harvard/USA, later a U.S. Public Health Service surgeon.
Bill James
Bill James (born 1949), American baseball writer and statistician, father of sabermetrics; created Runs Created, Pythagorean expectation, and Win Shares; self-published the 1977 Baseball Abstract and advised the Boston Red Sox 2002–2019.
Bill Johnson
Bill Johnson (1960–2016), American alpine ski racer; won the 1984 Sarajevo Olympic downhill gold, first American Olympic skiing gold medalist; three World Cup downhill wins; career ended by a 2001/2002 training crash.
Bill Jordan
Bill Jordan (William Conrad Jordan, 1898-1968) was an American Olympic rower, not the Realtree founder or Richmond coach of the same name. He won gold in the 1920 Antwerp men's eight for the US Naval Academy, then led Curtiss-Wright and Hughes Aircraft.
Bill Kazmaier
Bill Kazmaier (born 1953, Burlington, Wisconsin), American powerlifter and strongman; three-time consecutive World's Strongest Man champion 1980-82, two-time IPF world powerlifting champion, 1,100 kg total record holder, later ESPN commentator.
Bill Kirby
Bill Kirby (William Ashley Kirby, born 1975, Perth) is an Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist in the 4x200 m freestyle relay at Sydney 2000 with a world record, and founder of Kirby Swim; not the footballer or other namesakes.
Bill Knecht
Bill Knecht (William Joseph Knecht, 1930–1992), American rower, Vesper Boat Club; 1964 Olympic gold in eights, 1960 Olympian in double sculls, three Pan Am golds, and creator of the Cooper River rowing course.
Bill Laimbeer
Bill Laimbeer (born 1957), NBA center and two-time champion with the Detroit Pistons "Bad Boys," later a three-time WNBA championship coach with the Detroit Shock.
Bill Lee (left-handed pitcher)
Bill "Spaceman" Lee (born 1946) is an American left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (1969-78) and Montreal Expos (1979-82), 119-90 with a 3.62 ERA, 1973 All-Star, 1975 World Series starter, later Vermont gubernatorial candidate.
Bill Leushner
Bill Leushner (William David Franz Leushner, 1863-1935), Canadian-born American sport shooter; Olympic gold 1908 military rifle team, silver and two bronzes 1912; long US National Guard career.
Bill Lienhard
Bill Lienhard (William Barner Lienhard, 1930-2022) was an American basketball forward who won the 1952 NCAA title with Kansas under Phog Allen and a 1952 Helsinki Olympic gold medal with Team USA, then became a Kansas banker.
Bill Mazeroski
Bill Mazeroski (1936–2026), Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman 1956–1972, hit the only walk-off home run in World Series Game 7 history (1960) and holds the MLB record of 1,706 double plays at second base; Hall of Fame 2001.
Bill McCartney
Bill McCartney (1940-2025), 'Coach Mac,' Colorado football head coach 1982-94, 93-55-5, won the 1990 national championship and three Big Eight titles, and founded the Promise Keepers ministry in 1990.
Bill Mettler
Bill Mettler (William Roy Mettler, Jr., born 1946, Springfield, Ohio), American swimmer and lawyer. Yale All-American; won 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold in the 4x200 m freestyle relay as a heat swimmer; later Arizona litigation attorney.
Bill Miller (olympedia 78793)
Bill Miller (William Waring Miller, 1912-2008), American Stanford pole vaulter; won 1932 Los Angeles Olympic gold in men's pole vault at 4.31 m, distinct from javelin thrower William Preston Miller and rower William Garfield Miller.
Bill Miller (William Garfield "Bill"•Miller)
William Garfield "Bill" Miller (1905–1985), American rower of Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Barge Club; two Olympic silvers, coxless fours 1928 and single sculls 1932 behind Bobby Pearce; distinct from the pole vaulter and javelin Bill Millers.
Bill Mueller
Bill Mueller, born William Richard Mueller in 1971, is an American former MLB third baseman who won the 2003 AL batting title and hit two grand slams from opposite sides of the plate in one game.
Bill Mulliken
Bill Mulliken (William Danforth Mulliken, 1939-2014), American swimmer and Chicago lawyer; surprise 1960 Rome Olympic gold medalist in the 200 m breaststroke (2:37.4), also 1959 Pan American Games champion and Hall of Fame Masters swimmer.
Bill Nankeville
Bill Nankeville (George William Nankeville, 1925-2021), British middle-distance runner, 1948 and 1952 Olympian, 1950 European 1500 m bronze medallist, four-time AAA mile champion, and holder of three relay world records.