Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (1908-1981)
William Saroyan
William Saroyan was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer of Armenian descent.
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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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English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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English playwright and author (1874–1965)
William Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham was an English writer, known for his plays, novels, and short stories.
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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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British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer.
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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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English Romantic poet (1770–1850)
William Wordsworth
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.
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