Businessman and founder of Scouting in America
William D. Boyce
William Dickson Boyce was an American newspaper man, entrepreneur, magazine publisher, and explorer.
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American computer scientist
William Daniel Hillis
William Daniel Hillis is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, who pioneered parallel computers and their use in artificial intelligence.
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American author, critic, and playwright (1837–1920)
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, playwright, and diplomat, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters".
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Nobel prize winning American chemical physicist (born 1953)
William E. Moerner
William Esco Moerner, also known as W.
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Secretary of the Treasury, businessman
William E. Simon
William Edward Simon was an American businessman and philanthropist who served as the 63rd United States Secretary of the Treasury.
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British Liberal prime minister (1809–1898)
William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone was a four-time prime minister of the United Kingdom.
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American businessman and former mayor
William Fargo
William George Fargo was an American businessman and politician who, along with Henry Wells, co-founded Wells Fargo.
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American writer (1897-1962)
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer.
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Hungarian-American film producer
William Fox
Vilmos Fried, known professionally as William Fox, was a Hungarian-American film industry executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s.
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