Profiles — Creators
Directors, broadcasters, animators and makers whose work shaped what audiences watched.
27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913 (1857–1930)
William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and the tenth chief justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930.
Read biography ↗American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist (1842–1910)
William James was an American philosopher and psychologist.
Read biography ↗British novelist (1811–1863)
William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist and illustrator.
Read biography ↗Textile designer, artist, writer, printer (1834–1896)
William Morris was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement.
Read biography ↗English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287–1347)
William of Ockham or Occam was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher and theologian.
Read biography ↗English playwright and author (1874–1965)
William Somerset Maugham was an English writer, known for his plays, novels, and short stories.
Read biography ↗British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer.
Read biography ↗English Romantic poet (1770–1850)
William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
Read biography ↗German politician (SPD), chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Willy Brandt was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1964 to 1987 and concurrently served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974.
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