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William Fox Talbot William Henry Fox Talbot (February 11, 1800 – September 17, 1877) was one of the first photographers and made major contributions to the photographic process. He is also remembered as the holder of a patent which affected the early development of photography in England.
William Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester William Thomas Horner Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester (7 May 1795-10 January 1865), known for most of his life as the Hon. William Thomas Horner Fox-Strangways, was a British diplomat and Whig politician.
William Francis Burman William Francis Burman (August 30, 1897 - October 23, 1974) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William Francis Frederick Waller William Francis Frederick Waller (20 August 1840-29 January 1885) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William Francis Gray Swann William Francis Gray Swann (1884–1962) was an Anglo-American physicist. He was educated at Brighton Technical College, the Royal College of Science, University College London, King's College London and the City Guilds of London Institute.
William Frank Buckley, Sr. William Frank Buckley, Sr. (born: 11 July 1881 Washington on the Brazos, Texas & died 5 October 1957 in New York City) was a Texan lawyer who became an influential influence on Mexican politics during the term of office of Victoriano Huerta and who was expelled from Mexico during the Presidency of Álvaro Obregón.
William Frank Mahoney MAHONEY, William Frank, a Representative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Ill., February 22, 1856; educated in the public schools of Chicago; engaged in mercantile pursuits in 1876; served as alderman in the Chicago City Council from 1884 to 1887 and again from 1890 to 1896; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses and served from March 4, 1901, until his death in Chicago, Ill.
William Frankena William Klass Frankena (June 21, 1908, Manhattan, Montana - October 22, 1994, Ann Arbor, Michigan) was an American philosopher, professor and chair of philosophy at the University of Michigan, and author of several introductory textbooks on moral philosophy and the philosophy of education.
William Franklin (opera) William Franklin (born 1906) was an opera singer and was considered a pioneer African American among the Chicago music scene. He debuted aside La Julia Rhea in a 1931 production of Verdi's Aida presented by the National Negro Opera Company.
William Franklin Graham IV William Franklin Graham IV, known as Will Graham, assistant director of the Billy Graham Training Center in Asheville, North Carolina and preaches at "crusade" style events organized by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
William Fraser (bishop) William Fraser († 1297) was a late 13th century Bishop of St Andrews and Guardian of the Kingdom of Scotland. Before election to the bishopric, he had been and Royal Chancellor of King Alexander III of Scotland and dean of Glasgow.
William Fraser McDonell William Fraser McDonell (17 December 1829- 31 July 1894)was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William Fraser, 1st Baron Strathalmond William Fraser, 1st Baron Strathalmond (3 November, 1888-1 April, 1970), was a Scottish businessman and a leading expert on the oil industry. He served as chairman of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (known as BP from 1954) from 1941 to 1956.
William Frawley William Clement Frawley (February 26, 1887 – March 3, 1966) was an American stage and screen actor, with well over a hundred films to his credit, but gained greater fame in television as Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy and as "Uncle" Bub O'Casey on My Three Sons.
William Frederick Deacon William Frederick Deacon (1799–1844), English author and journalist, was the first child of six born to a fairly prosperous London merchant. After Reading School, Deacon studied at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
William Frederick Faulds William Frederick Faulds (VC, MC) (19 February 1895-16 February 1950) was a South African recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William Frederick Havemeyer William Frederick Havemeyer (February 12, 1804 – November 30, 1874) was a New York businessman and politician serving three times as the mayor of New York City from 1845-1846, 1848-1849 and from 1873 until his death in 1874.
William Frederick McFadzean William Frederick McFadzean (born October 9, 1895 - died July 1 1916) was born in Lurgan, County Armagh and hence was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William Frederick Poole William Frederick Poole (24 December 1821 - 1 March 1894) was an American bibliographer and librarian born in Salem, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale University in 1849, where he assisted John Edmands, who was a student at the Brothers in Unity Library.
William Frederick Yeames William Frederick Yeames (1835-1918) was an British painter best known for his oil-on-canvas painting, And When Did You Last See Your Father?, which depicts the son of a Royalist being questioned by Parliamentarians.
William Friedkin William Friedkin (born August 29 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American movie and television director, producer, and screenwriter best known for directing The Exorcist and The French Connection in the early 1970s.
William Friese-Greene William Friese-Greene (September 7, 1855–May 5, 1921) (born William Edward Green) was a portrait photographer and prolific inventor. He is principally known as a pioneer in the field of motion pictures and is credited by some as the inventor of cinematography.
William Froude William Froude (November 28, 1810, Dartington, Devon, England - May 4, 1879, Simonstown, South Africa) was an engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect. He was the first to formulate reliable laws for the resistance that water offers to ships (such as the hull speed equation) and for predicting their stability.
William Fulco The Reverend William J. Fulco (born February 24, 1936, Los Angeles) is a Jesuit priest and National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California in the United States.
William Fuld William Fuld (1873 - February 24, 1927) was an American businessman, inventor, and entrepreneur from Baltimore, Maryland who is best known for his marketing and manufacture of Ouija boards from the 1890s through the 1920s. Historically, Fuld is seen as the inventor and father of the Ouija board.
William Funnell William Funnell is a top-class showjumper and eventer He has been on many Nations Cup teams, but has never ridden in the Olympics. In 2006 he won the Hickstead Derby for the first time since his first attempt at the age of 17.
William Fyfe William Sefton Fyfe CC (born June 4, 1927) is a Canadian geologist and Professor Emeritus in the department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario. He is widely considered the world’s most eminent geochemist.
William G. Conley William Gustavus Conley (born January 8, 1866 in Preston County, West Virginia; died October 21, 1940 in Charleston, West Virginia) was an American politician who served as governor of West Virginia as a Republican from 1929 to 1933.
William G. Dever William G. Dever is an American archaeologist, specialising in the history of Israel and the Near East in Biblical times, who was Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona from 1975 to 2002.
William G. Steiner William G. Steiner (born April 26, 1937, Sibley, Iowa) is a children's advocate and nationally recognized expert on child abuse and neglect, a former chairman of the Orange County, California board of supervisors, founder of both the Orangewood Children's Home, located in Orange, California and the Good Samaritan Boy's Home, in Corona, California, and a former school board member and city councilman for the City of Orange.
William G. Stewart William Gladstone Stewart (born July 15, 1935 in Habrough, North East Lincolnshire) is an English television producer and director of comedy and game shows, now best known as the former presenter of the Channel 4 quiz show Fifteen to One and producer of the original series of The Price is Right on ITV .
William G. Walsh Gunnery Sergeant William Gary Walsh (7 April 1922 – 27 February 1945) was a United States Marine who heroically sacrificed his life to save the lives of his fellow Marines during the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. For his actions on 27 February 1945, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
William G. Whiteley William Gustavus Whiteley (August 7, 1819 - April 23, 1886) was a United States Representative from Delaware. Born near Newark, Delaware, he attended Bullock's School at Wilmington and was graduated from Princeton College in 1838.
William G. Windrich Staff Sergeant William Gordon Windrich (1921-1950) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for outstanding heroism as a platoon sergeant during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.
William Gage, 2nd Viscount Gage William Hall Gage, 2nd Viscount Gage (January 1 1718 – October 11 1791) was born to Thomas Gage and Benedicta Maria Theresa Hall. He was equerry for the Prince of Wales and also served five terms as Member of Parliament representing the Seaford borough of Sussex.
William Gallagher William James Gallagher (May 13, 1875 – August 13, 1946) was a Representative from Minnesota; born in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN, May 13, 1875; attended the public schools, and was graduated from North High School in 1894; engaged as an editorial employee and proofreader in Minneapolis, MN, in 1895 and 1896; moved to Spokane, WA, in 1897 and continued his former pursuits with a labor journal until 1899; returned to Minneapolis, MN, and engaged as a trucker and clerk in freight houses until 1919; employed as a street sweeper for Hennepin County 1919 – 1927 and for the city of Minneapolis, MN, from 1927 until his retirement in 1942; was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress and served from January 3, 1945, until his death; had been renominated to the Eightieth Congress in 1946; died in a hospital at Rochester, MN, August 13, 1946; interment in Crystal Lake Cemetery, Minneapolis, MN.
William Galston William Galston is a political theorist. He is the Saul I Stern Professor of Civic Engagement and the director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the School of Public Policy of University of Maryland, College Park.
William Gaminara William Gaminara is a British actor and screenwriter, best known for playing pathologist Dr Leo Dalton in the BBC's Silent Witness (2002 to date). His other television roles have included Will Newman in Attachments and Dr Andrew Bower in Casualty.
William Gannaway Brownlow William Gannaway Brownlow (August 29, 1805 – April 29, 1877) was Governor of Tennessee from 1865 to 1869 and a Senator from Tennessee from 1869 to 1875. Serving during Reconstruction following the American Civil War, Brownlow was strongly pro-Union.
William Garden Cowie William Garden Cowie (January 8, 1831-June 26, 1902) was bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Auckland, New Zealand, from 1870 to 1902. Although he succeeded George Augustus Selwyn in having jurisdiction in this portion of New Zealand, he was the first bishop to be known specifically as Bishop of Auckland.
William Gardner William Gardner (VC, MSM)(3 March 1821 - 24 October 1897) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William Gargan William Gargan (July 17, 1905 – February 17, 1979) was an American motion picture and television actor. Gargan played character roles in many Hollywood productions but was best known for his role as Detective Martin Kane in the 1949-51 radio-television series, Martin Kane, Private Eye, sponsored by U.
William Garretson William Eston Garretson (born August 24, 1949) was the caretaker of the Polanski residence at the time of Sharon Tate's murder by the Charles Manson "Family". A native of Lancaster, Ohio, Garretson stayed in a small cottage behind the main house.
William Garrett Lewis William Garrett Lewis (born before 1834-died in 1885) was a British Baptist preacher and pastor of Westbourne Grove Church in Bayswater, London for 33 years. He co-founded the London Baptist Association (within the Baptist Union of Great Britain) along with Charles Haddon Spurgeon and several other pastors.
William Garrison (geographer) William Louis Garrison (born 1924) is an American geographer and transportation analyst, currently a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. While at the University of Washington in the 1950s, Garrison led the "quantitative revolution" in geography, which applied computers and statistics to the study of spatial problems.
William Gayley Simpson William Gayley Simpson was a co-founder of the ACLU and former Christian minister and Franciscan monk, who became convinced of Social Darwinism after familiarizing himself with the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, inspiring him to author the book Which way Western man?,a book which has been lauded by numerous White Supremacist organizations.
William Gazecki William Gazecki is a documentary filmmaker and sound mixer best known for his Academy Award-nominated film Waco: The Rules of Engagement (1997). The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was also awarded the International Documentary Association's Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award and won awards at both the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Vancouver International Film Festival.
William Gear William Gear (1915-1997) was a painter, born on 2 August 1915 in Methil in the south-east of Fife, Scotland. Born into a mining family, he studied at Edinburgh College of Art before travelling to Paris to study with Fernand LĂ©ger.
William Geissler William Hastie Geissler (1894 Edinburgh - 1963) was a Scottish artist known for his watercolours of the natural world. He was one of the Edinburgh School, and much of his earlier work came from sketching trips undertaken with other members of this group, though he himself is sometimes described as a "neglected" member.
William George Cubitt William George Cubitt (VC, DSO)(October 19, 1835 - June 25, 1903) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William George Drummond Stewart William George Drummond Stewart (February 1831-19 October 1868) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William George Hawtry Bankes William George Hawtry Bankes (Wimborne Minster, Dorset September 11, 1836 - India 1858) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William George Keith Elphinstone Major-General William George Keith Elphinstone, CB, (1782–April 23 1842) was an officer of the British Army during the 19th Century. Born in Scotland in 1782; he was the son of William Fullerton Elphinstone, who was a director of the British East India Company, and nephew of Admiral George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith.
William George Nicholas Manley William George Nicholas Manley (VC, CB) (17 December 1831- 16 November 1901) was born Dublin and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William George Walker William George Walker (VC, CB) (28 May, 1863-16 February 1936) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William George Ward William George Ward (March 21, 1812 - July 6, 1882) was an English Roman Catholic theologian whose career illustrates the development of religious opinion at a time of crisis in the history of English religious thought.
William Gibson (Liberal MP) William Gibson (7 August, 1849 – 4 May 1914) was a Canadian politician, born in Peterhead, Scotland. From 1891–1900 he served as a Liberal Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons representing the riding of Lincoln and Niagara.
William Gibson (novelist) William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948, Conway, South Carolina) is an American-born science fiction author resident in Canada since 1968. He has been called the father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction, partly due to coining the term "cyberspace" in 1982,http://www.
William Gilbert William Gilbert, or less commonly Gilberd, was born May 24, 1544, Colchester, England and died November 30, 1603, in London, probably of the plague, was an English physician to Elizabeth I and James I and natural philosopher known for his investigations of magnetism and electricity. Gilbert was the originator of the term "electricity" and many regard him as the father of electrical engineering or father of electricity.
William Gilbert (author) William Gilbert, (May 20 1804 – January 3 1890) was a British novelist and naval surgeon, and the author of several popular fantasy stories in the 1860s and 1870s. He is perhaps best remembered, however, as the father of dramatist W.
William Gilbert (Rugby) William Gilbert (1799-1877) had a boot and shoemakers shop in the high street next to Rugby school and started making balls for the school out of hand stitched, four-panel, leather casings and real pigs’ bladders.
William Giles (Oz) William Giles is a fictional character on HBO's prison drama Oz. Though not considered to be insane or otherwise mentally deficient by the prison system, or prison psychiatrist Sister Peter Marie, he speaks in one word riddles and does not carry on normal conversations.
William Gilham William Gilham (January 13, 1818-November 16, 1872) was an American soldier, teacher, chemist, and author. A member of the faculty at Virginia Military Institute, in 1860, he wrote a military manual which was still in modern use 145 years later.
William Gilchrist William Wallace Gilchrist (1846–1916) was an American composer and a major figure in nineteenth century music of Philadelphia. Gilchrist was born in Jersey City in 1846 and at the age of eleven months moved with his family to Philadelphia, where he studied music with H.
William Gillespie William "Bill" Gillespie is an English landscape architect and founding partner of Gillespies. He studied landscape architecture under Frank Clark at the University of Reading and moved to Glasgow, Scotland to establish his own practice.
William Gillies William Gillies (1865-1932) was a Scottish patriot and a socialist. He helped to form the Scots National League which joined with in other bodies to form the National Party of Scotland which in turn evolved into the Scottish National Party (SNP).
William Gillies (Australian politician) William Neil Gillies (1868-1928 was Premier of Queensland from 26 February to 22 October 1925 for the Australian Labor Party.The Gillies Highway in Far North Queensland was named after William Neil Gillies as he was the Queensland Minister for Transport at the time.
William Gilmour Musician and artist William Gilmour was an early member and keyboardist of British rock band The Enid, before leaving to form his own band: Craft. He is now a music teacher at Culloden Academy in Inverness, and often helps local bands record demos in his home studio.
William Ginsberg William Ginsberg (1930-2006) was an attorney, environmentalist, author and professor of environmental law. Ginsberg served as commissioner of parks and recreation in New York City, to which post he was appointed by Mayor John Lindsay in 1968.
William Goat William Goat (12 January 1836 - 24 October 1901) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William Godwin William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of anarchist, or at least minarchist, philosophy.
William Golden William Golden (1911 — 1959) is considered to be one of the pioneers of American graphic design. He is best known for his work at Columbia Broadcasting System, starting in the CBS Radio promotion department (before broadcast television existed) and culminating in his tenure as creative director of advertising and sales promotion for CBS Television Network.
William Goldie William 'Bill' Goldie (Born 22nd January 1878, died circa 1924) was a footballer who played for Liverpool Football Club in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, helping them to a Football League Championship.
William Golding Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1983), best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. He was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980, for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book of the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth.
William Goldwyer William Goldwyer (August 1829–13 November 1864) was a police officer and explorer in colonial Western Australia. While exploring in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in 1864, he was killed by Australian Aborigines.
William Goodhart William Howard Goodhart, Baron Goodhart QC (born 18 January 1933) is a Liberal Democrat politician, a leading human rights lawyer and a member of the United Kingdom House of Lords. He is the son of Arthur Lehman Goodhart.
William Goodreds William Arthur Goodreds (born 3 November 1921 in Pensnett, Staffordshire) is an English former cricketer who played a single first-class match, for Worcestershire against Cambridge University in 1952. He opened the bowling in both innings, but sent down only twelve overs in the game without taking a wicket; with the bat he scored 4 not out in his only innings.
William Goodsell Rockefeller William Goodsell Rockefeller (May 21, 1870–November 30, 1922) was the third child of Standard Oil co-founder William Rockefeller (1841–1922) and his wife, Almira Geraldine Goodsell. Rockefeller married Sarah Elizabeth Stillman, daughter of National City Bank president James Stillman, on November 21, 1895.
William Gooch Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet (21 October 1681 – 17 December 1751) born in Yarmouth, England; died in London; served as Governor of Virginia from 1727 through 1749. Technically, Gooch only had the title Royal Lieutenant Governor, but the nominal governor, Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle, was in England and did not exercise much authority.
William Gopallawa William Gopallawa (September 17 1897 - January 31 1981) was the last Governor General of Ceylon (1962 - 1972) as Sri Lanka was known prior to 1972, and first President of Sri Lanka when Ceylon became Sri Lanka and adopted a Republican Constitution.1972— Prior to that year, it was a Dominion Republic owing allegiance to the Queen of England.
William Gordon (1763-1802) William Gordon (April 12, 1763 - May 8, 1802) was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. Born near Boston, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard College in 1779, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1787 and commenced practice in Amherst, New Hampshire.
William Gordon Cameron Major-General William Gordon Cameron (Chinese Translated Name 金馬倫) was a British soldier and colonial administrator, who governed Hong Kong in a period between April of 1887 to October of 1887, when Sir George William Des Vœux succeeded him as the 10th Governor of Hong Kong. He was the Major General of China, Hong Kong and Straits Settlements from 1885 to 1889.
William Gordon Rutherfurd Captain William Gordon Rutherfurd Sometime spelt Rutherford. , RN, CB (1765 - 14 January 1818) was an officer in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars whose career was almost entirely conducted in the West Indies except for a brief sojurn in European waters during which he commmanded the ship of the line HMS Swiftsure at the battle of Trafalgar.
William Gordon, Lord Strathnaver William Gordon (19 December, 1683-13 July, 1720), known by the courtesy title of Lord Strathnaver from 4 March, 1703, was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom in 1708. In 1719, the family name was changed to Sutherland, when his father was recognised as the Chief of Clan Sutherland.
William Gosling William Gosling (15 August 1892–12 February 1945) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William Gott William Henry Ewart "Strafer" Gott, CB, CBE, DSO, MC (13 August 1897 - 7 August 1942) was a British Army officer during both the First and Second World Wars, reaching the rank of lieutenant general when serving in the British Eighth Army.
William Gowland Professor William Gowland (1842-1922) was a mining engineer most famous for his archaeological work at Stonehenge. He worked at the Royal School of Mines at South Kensington but was also a Fellow of the Royal Society and an expert in early metal-working.
William Graham Sumner William Graham Sumner (1840-1910), American professor at Yale College for many years where he had a reputation among students as one of the most influential teachers. He was a polymath with numerous books and essays in American history, economic history, political theory, sociology, and anthropology.
William Grainger Blount William Grainger Blount (1784-May 21, 1827) was a statesman from Tennessee, the son of William Blount and the nephew of Thomas Blount. He was born near New Bern, North Carolina in Craven County and attended the New Bern Academy.
William Grant (businessman) William Grant , born 1839 died 1923, founder of William Grant & Sons. He started his whisky career in 1866 when he learned about the making of whisky and in 1886 he started producing whisky at Glenfiddich Distillery in his home town of Dufftown, Scotland.
William Grant Still William Grant Still (May 11,1895 - December 3,1978) was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was the first African-American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, the first to have a symphony of his own (his first symphony) performed by a leading orchestra, the first to have an opera performed by a major opera company, and the first to have an opera performed on national television.
William Grason William Grason (March 11, 1788 – July 2, 1868) served as Governor of the state of Maryland in the United States from 1839 to 1842. Grason also served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1828 to 1829, and as a member of the Maryland State Senate from 1852 until 1853.
William Gray (Massachusetts) William Gray (June 27, 1750 - November 4, 1825) was a Massachusetts merchant and politician. Born into a lower class family in Boston, he managed to build his own business and rise through the state's political ranks, becoming extraordinarily wealthy.
William Gray Espy William Gray Espy (born July 19, 1948 in Dothan, Alabama, USA) is an actor, best known for roles in serials such as The Young and the Restless as William "Snapper" Foster (1973-1975, 2003) and Another World as Mitch Blake (1979-1982, 1986-1990).
William Grayson Carter William Grayson Carter (died July 11, 1849) was an American politician from Kentucky. William was the son of John Carter (from Loudoun County, Virginia) and Hebe (Williams) Carter, and a grandson of Colonel William Grayson.
William Green (football) William Green (born December 17, 1979 in Atlantic City, New Jersey) is an American football running back who currently is a free agent of the NFL. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns out of Boston College with the 16th pick in the first round of the 2002 NFL Draft.
William Greener William Greener (1806 - 1869) was an English inventor and gunmaker. He developed a self-expanding bullet in 1835, an electric lamp in 1846 (patent specification 11076 of that year) some 33 years before Tomas Edison's patent in 1879.
William Gregg (industrialist) William Gregg (1800-1867) was an ardent advocate of industrialization in antebellum Southern United States. In 1847 he founded the successful Graniteville Company, a large scale Horse Creek Valley, South Carolina cotton mill.
William Gregg (soldier) William Gregg VC , DCM , MM (27 January 1890 - 10 August 1969) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross (British medal of achievement), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William Griffith (US politician) William Griffith is a Democratic Party member and veteran who ran for South Carolina's 4th congressional district in 2006. He ran against conservative Republican incumbent Bob Inglis and lost, receiving 32% of the vote to Inglis' 64%.

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