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Bill Hwang
Bill Hwang founded Archegos Capital Management, which grew to manage over $36 billion. He was sentenced to 18 years in 2024 for manipulating stock prices and defrauding nine banks.
Bill Hybels
Bill Hybels is an American evangelical pastor who founded Willow Creek Community Church near Chicago in 1975, pioneered the seeker-sensitive megachurch model, and founded the Global Leadership Summit before resigning in 2018.
Bill Johnson (pastor)
Bill Johnson is an American fifth-generation pastor who has led Bethel Church in Redding, California, since 1996 and teaches that healing and miracles are normal for Christians.
Bill Keating
Bill Keating, born 1952, is the Democratic U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 9th district since 2013, after one term representing the 10th district from 2011.
Bill Koch (businessman)
Bill Koch, born William Ingraham Koch, is an American billionaire industrialist who founded Oxbow Carbon, won the 1992 America's Cup, and is known for litigating against counterfeit wine.
Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol (William Kristol, born 1952) is an American neoconservative commentator, Weekly Standard co-founder and editor, PNAC co-founder with Robert Kagan, Iraq war advocate, Quayle chief of staff, and later Never Trump Bulwark editor-at-large.
Bill Kurtis
Bill Kurtis (William Horton Kuretich, born 1940) is an American broadcast journalist, WBBM-TV Chicago anchor, CBS Morning News co-anchor, and documentary producer of Cold Case Files, American Justice, and Wait Wait judge.
Bill Lee (Tennessee politician)
Bill Lee, 50th governor of Tennessee (Republican, since January 2019), businessman and president of Lee Company since 1992; won 59.6% in 2018 and 64.9% in 2022; known for TISA education funding reform, Education Freedom Scholarships, and conservative social legislation.
Bill Lynch
Bill Lynch was an Irish-born South African transport entrepreneur who joined Imperial Holdings in 1971 and built it into South Africa's largest transport and mobility conglomerate.
Bill Magnarelli
Bill Magnarelli is an American politician, a Democrat in the New York State Assembly who represented Syracuse's 129th district from 1998 to 2026 and chaired the Transportation Committee.
Bill Marriott
Bill Marriott, born John Willard Marriott Jr., is an American hotel executive who led Marriott International as chief executive from 1972 to 2012 and built it into the world's largest hotel operator.
Bill McDermott
Bill McDermott (William R. McDermott) is an American technology executive who rose from selling Xerox copiers door-to-door to lead SAP from 2010 to 2019 and ServiceNow since 2019.
Bill Moen
Bill Moen, also known as William F. "Bill" Moen Jr., is a Democratic New Jersey General Assembly member from the 5th district since 2020 and Deputy Speaker since 2026.
Bill Morgan lottery win
Bill Morgan lottery win: 1999 story of Australian Melbourne truck driver Bill Morgan, clinically dead 14 minutes after a 1998 heart attack, who won a car scratchcard, then A$250,000 live on Nine News during a televised re-enactment.
Bill Morneau
Bill Morneau (William Francis Morneau), Canadian businessman and Liberal MP for Toronto Centre, was Canada's finance minister from November 4, 2015 to August 17, 2020, the first rookie MP in the role since 1919; resigned amid WE Charity ethics findings.
Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers (Billy Don Moyers, 1934–2025), American broadcast journalist and former LBJ White House press secretary (1965–1967), Newsday publisher, and PBS documentary producer of Bill Moyers Journal, NOW, Power of Myth, and Buying the War.
Bill Nye–Ken Ham debate
The Bill Nye–Ken Ham debate, also called Scopes II, was a February 4, 2014 creationism-versus-evolution debate at Kentucky's Creation Museum between science educator Bill Nye and Answers in Genesis CEO Ken Ham, watched by millions.
Bill O'Meara
Bill O'Meara (William J. O'Meara) is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded LSI Logic in 1980, led its marketing and sales, and later served as CEO of C-Cube Microsystems.
Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)
Bill O'Reilly (William James O'Reilly Jr., born 1949), American conservative commentator who anchored Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor 1996-2017, was fired over harassment settlements, and now hosts No Spin News and We'll Do It Live.
Bill of attainder
A bill of attainder, or act of attainder, is a law that convicts and punishes a person or group without trial; the US Constitution bans Congress and states from passing one.
Bill of lading
Bill of lading (B/L), the core maritime carriage document: goods receipt, evidence of the contract of carriage, and document of title. Covers straight, order, charterparty, and electronic (eBL) forms under the Hamburg Rules, MLETR, and trade finance use.
Bill of rights
Bill of rights: a formal charter of individual rights against state power, from the English Bill of Rights 1689 and the US Bill of Rights (first ten amendments, 1791) to modern statutory charters like Canada's Charter and the UK Human Rights Act.
Bill of Rights 1689
Bill of Rights 1689 (also Bill of Rights 1688), 1 Will. & Mar. Sess. 2 c. 2: English statute from the Glorious Revolution limiting the Crown, confirming parliamentary rights, and settling succession under William III and Mary II.
Bill Palmer (restaurateur)
Bill Palmer is an American restaurateur who founded Applebee's with his wife T.J. in Decatur, Georgia, in 1980, sold the concept in 1983, and built a 40-restaurant Atlanta franchise network.
Bill Partington
Bill Partington is an American politician and Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from District 28, elected in 2024 and previously Mayor of Ormond Beach.
Bill Peck
Bill Peck is an American mechanical engineer and nanofluidics specialist who co-founded Twist Bioscience in 2013, adapting semiconductor manufacturing to cheap DNA synthesis on silicon chips.
Bill Perkins (businessman)
Bill Perkins, also known as William O. Perkins III, is an American energy trader who founded Houston hedge fund Skylar Capital and wrote the 2020 book Die with Zero.
Bill Podlich
Bill Podlich is an American finance executive who helped organize PIMCO in Newport Beach, California in 1971 and ran its business side as chief executive until 1994.
Bill Powers
Bill Powers is an American politician and Republican member of the Tennessee Senate from District 22, serving since 2019 after two terms on the Clarksville City Council.
Bill Pulte
Bill Pulte is an American government official and investor who serves as the 5th Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. He oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.