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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French footballer (born 1977)
William Gallas
William Eric Gallas is a French football coach and former professional footballer who played as a defender.
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American-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)
William Gibson
William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, a category from which he has repeatedly distanced himself.
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English journalist, political philosopher and novelist (1756–1836)
William Godwin
William Godwin was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist.
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British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1911–1993)
William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet.
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American industrialist, and first president of Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society
William Henry Conley
, was a Pittsburgh philanthropist and industrialist.
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American businessman and philanthropist
William Henry Vanderbilt
William Henry Vanderbilt was an American businessman and railroad magnate.
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German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
William Herschel
Frederick William Herschel was a German–British astronomer and composer.
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