American newspaper publisher
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper publisher and politician.
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American founders, executives and investors, and the companies they built and led.
American electrical engineer, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard
William Redington Hewlett
William Redington Hewlett was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company.
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American diplomat, politician and army officer
William Rosecrans
William Starke Rosecrans was an American inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and U.S. Army officer.
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American television executive and art collector
William S. Paley
William Samuel Paley was an American businessman, primarily involved in the media, and best known as the chief executive who built the Columbia Broadcasting System from a small radio network into one of the foremost radio and television network operations…
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American businessman
William Seward Burroughs I
William Seward Burroughs I was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York, most prominently known as the inventor of a mechanical calculator.
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United States Army general
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman was an American businessman, author, and United States Army general in the Union army during the American Civil War.
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American politician
William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor
William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor was an American-English attorney, politician, diplomat, hotelier, publisher and philanthropist.
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American inventor
Willis Carrier
Willis Haviland Carrier was an American engineer, best known for inventing modern air conditioning by inventing the first electrical air conditioning unit in 1902.
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