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William Johnson McDonald William Johnson McDonald (December 21 1844 – February 8 1926) was a Paris, Texas banker who left $850,000 (the bulk of his fortune) to the University of Texas System to endow an astronomical observatory. Some sources give his date of death as February 6.
William Johnstone Milne William Johnstone Milne (December 21, 1892- April 9, 1917), was a Canadian soldier in World War I who posthumously received the Victoria Cross for the highest gallantry against the enemy during action in France on 9 April, 1917.
William Johnstone Pulteney Sir William Johnstone Pulteney (October 1729 – 30 May 1805) was an eminent Scottish lawyer, Member of Parliament, and at one time reputedly the wealthiest man in the Kingdom of Great Britain. He invested in lands in America, and in developments in Great Britain, including the Pulteney Bridge and other buildings in Bath, buildings on the sea-front at Weymouth in Dorset, and roads in his native Scotland.
William Jolliffe William Jolliffe was born in Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England on 16 September 1851, the son of William Peter Jolliffe and Harriett Penny. He qualified as a barrister and practised in London, Newcastle upon Tyne and North Shields.
William Jolly Bridge, Brisbane The William Jolly Bridge is the sixth crossing of the Brisbane River in Brisbane, Australia. It is a steel frame arch bridge with an unusual concrete veneer and was opened to traffic on 30 March 1932 by Sir John Goodwin, the Governor of Queensland.
William Jones (anthropologist) William Jones (1871-1909) When he received his PhD from Columbia University, he became the fourth person to receive a PhD in linguistic anthropology, twelfth person to receive a PhD in anthropology, and first Native American PhD in anthropology. Jones was part Fox and a specialist in Algonquian languages, particularly known for his extensive collection of Algonquian texts.
William Jones (philologist) Sir William Jones (September 28, 1746 – April 27, 1794) was an English philologist and student of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages.
William Jones (VC) William Jones (1839 - 15 April 1913) 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 Joseph Croke William Joseph Croke (1840 – March 11 1869) was a Nova Scotia lawyer and political figure. He represented Richmond in the Canadian House of Commons as a member of the Anti-Confederation Party from 1867 to 1869.
William Joseph Donovan Major General William Joseph Donovan MH KBE United States Army (January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959) was an American soldier, lawyer and intelligence officer, best remembered today as wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
William Joseph Chaminade William Joseph Chaminade or Guillaume Joseph Chaminade, now called by his liturgical title of Blessed Chaminade (April 8 1761-January 22 1850), was a French Roman Catholic priest who survived persecution during the French Revolution. He founded the Society of Mary, also called the Marianists, in 1817.
William Joyce William Joyce (April 24, 1906 – January 3, 1946), known as Lord Haw-Haw, was a fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during World War II. He was executed for treason by the British as a result of his wartime activities.
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford (23 June 1865 – 8 June 1932), popularly known as Jix, was a British Conservative politician, most known for his tenure as Home Secretary during which he gained a reputation for strict authoritarianism.
William Judge Father William Judge was a Jesuit priest who during the 1897Klondike Gold Rush established a facility in Dawson which provided shelter, food and any available medicine to the many hard-at-luck gold miners who filled the town and its environs.
William Kamm William Kamm also known as The Little Pebble or the (future) Australian Antipope Peter II the Roman (born Cologne, Germany, 1950; currently living in Australia) is the leader of a religious sect or group called the Order of St. Charbel, which claims however to be part of the Roman Catholic Church and due to be approved by the hierarchy.
William Kashtan William Kashtan (1909-1993) became general secretary of the Communist Party of Canada in January 1965, several months following the death of Leslie Morris. The delay in his assuming the position was due to the opposition of Tim Buck to his appointment.
William Kaye William Kaye (February 13 1813 — November 19 1890) was the fourteenth Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1863 to 1864. He was born in Yorkshire, England to a clothing manufacturer, trained as a machinist, and came to Louisville in 1836.
William Keane (bishop) William Keane (born on April 7, 1805 at Castlemartyr, County Cork) was a Roman Catholic bishop from Ireland. He studied at the Irish College in Paris, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1828 in Paris for the Cloyne Diocese.
William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal (1617? - 1671) was a Scottish nobleman and Covenanter, who joined Montrose and twice seized Aberdeen in 1639, including a march with Montrose and 9000 men along the Causey Mounth past Muchalls Castle and through the Portlethen Moss to attack via the Bridge of Dee.
William Kellner William Kellner (1900 - 1996) was an Austrian-born art director who worked primarily on British films in the 1940s and 1950s. He began his career as a draughtsman working for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger on their films A Canterbury Tale (1944) and I Know Where I'm Going!
William Kelly (artist) William Kelly is an American artist, humanist and human-rights advocate. He was born in Buffalo, New York and received his artistic training at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the National Gallery School in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia).
William Kemmler William Kemmler (May 9, 1860 – August 6, 1890) of Buffalo, New York was the first person to be executed via electric chair. He had murdered Tillie Ziegler, his common-law wife, with a hatchet on March 29, 1889, and was sentenced to be executed on August 6, 1890, at 7:00 AM at New York's Auburn Prison.
William Kendall William Salwey Kendall (born 18 December, 1973 in Wimbledon) is a former English cricketer who played over 200 games (in first-class and List A matches combined) for Hampshire around the turn of the 21st century, having earlier appeared on a number of occasions for Oxford University.
William Keneally William Keneally VC (sometimes spelt Kenealy), (26 December 1886-29 June 1915) 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 Kennedy (author) William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist born and raised in Albany, New York, whose novels, many of which feature the interaction of members of the fictional Irish-American Phelan family, make use of incidents of Albany's history and the supernatural. Kennedy's works include The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), Ironweed (1983, winner of 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; film, 1987), and Roscoe (2002).
William Kennedy Smith William Kennedy Smith (born September 4, 1960) is an American physician whose work focuses on landmines and the rehabilitation of people disabled by them. He is a member of the prominent Kennedy political family and is famous for a well-publicized 1991 rape trial in which he was acquitted.
William Kenneth Pope William Kenneth Pope was a Bishop of The Methodist Church, elected in 1960. He was elected by the South Central Jurisdictional Conference of the Church and assigned the North Texas Annual Conference, where he served from 1964 until his retirement in 1972.
William Kenny William Kenny (24 August 1880, Drogheda, Co Louth, Ireland – 10 January 1936, Hammersmith, W London) 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 Kenrick William Kenrick (1795-1872) was an American nurseryman. When 28 years of age he was taken into partnership by his father, a pioneer nurseryman, whose gardens were planted in 1790 upon the ground where John Eliot commenced preaching the gospel to the Indians.
William Kent (U.S. Congressman) William Kent (March 29, 1864–March 13, 1928) was an American who served as a United States Congressman representing the State of California. He spearheaded the movement to create the Muir Woods National Monument by donating land to the Federal Government for the Monument.
William Kidd (composer) William "Bill" Kidd is a musician, conductor, composer, and orchestrator. He has worked on many television shows and feature films, including Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Left Behind, and Return to Lonesome Dove.
William Killigrew Sir William Killigrew (1606 - 1695) was an English court official under Charles I and Charles II. He attempted to drain the Lincolnshire fens, and was the author of four plays (printed 1665 and 1666) of some merit.
William Kimber William "Merry" Kimber (8 September 1872 – 26 December 1961), was an English concertina player and Morris Dancer who played a key role in the twentieth century revival of Morris Dancing, the traditional English folk dancing. A bricklayer by trade, he was famous both for his concertina playing and for his fine, upright dancing, such that in his day he was presented in the highest circles of society.
William Kincaid William Kincaid (also "Bill Kincaid") was formerly known nationally in the entertainment trade as a costume designer, and after leaving the costume business in 1990, has been working to become locally known as an artist (b. 1957) creating pet paintings in brilliant colors on large canvases.
William King (author) William King (b. 1959) also known as "Bill King" is the writer of a number of successful science-fiction and fantasy books, most notably in Games Workshop's Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 series, all published by GW's fiction arm, The Black Library.
William King (governor) William King (1768-1862) was an American merchant, ship-builder, and statesman from Bath, Maine. A principal proponent of statehood for Maine, he became its first governor when it separated from Massachusetts in 1820.
William King Gregory William King Gregory (19 May 1876 – 29 December 1970) was a US zoologist, renowned as a primatologist, paleontologist, and functional and comparative morphologist. He was an expert on mammalian dentition, and a leading contributor to theories of evolution.
William Kingsford William Kingsford (23 December 1819 – 29 September 1898) was an English-born Canadian historian. Born in London, Great Britain he served in the army, and went to Canada, where he was engaged in surveying work.
William Kingston Vickery William Kingston Vickery (16 March 1851, Ireland - 25 March 1925, Saratoga California) was an Irish-American picture dealer. His art exhibitions are credited with bringing French Impressionism to the attention of Californians.
William Kininmonth (meteorologist) William Kininmonth is noted for his views as an opponent of global warming theory and frequently writes on the topic of climate change. He believes that the warming trend of the recent century is not unusual, and he is critical of the simple model of climate systems represented by the IPCC.
William Kiplagat William Kiplagat (born June 21, 1972) is a long-distance runner from Kenya, who ran his personal best (2:06:50) in the marathon in Amsterdam, 1999. Although he didn’t win with this individual record in 1999 – he was third – Kiplagat has two victories (Rotterdam, 2003 and Seoul, 2005) and six sub-2:10 performances.
William Kirkpatrick William Kirkpatrick (November 7, 1769 - September 2, 1832) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Amwell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey (near Zion), he graduated from Princeton College in 1788, studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and commenced practice in Whitestown, Oneida County, New York in 1795.
William Kloefkorn William (Bill) Kloefkorn is a Nebraska poet and educator based in Lincoln, Nebraska. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry, two short story collections, a collection of children's Christmas stories, and three memoirs.
William Knabe William Knabe, was an American industrialist and piano-manufacturer, based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Knabe was born in Kreutzburg, Saxe Weimar, in 1797, and moved to the United States as a young man, where he settled in Baltimore, intending to live there only briefly before moving on to Missouri.
William Kneass William Kneass (September 1781, Lancaster, Pennsylvania—August 27, 1840) worked as an engraver in Philadelphia from 1805 to 1840, and became the second chief engraver of the United States Mint on January 29, 1824.
William Knibb William Knibb (1816-1845), Baptist minister and missionary to Jamaica, following the pioneering work of the African preacher George Lisle, was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire on 7 September 1803. Knibb played a prominent part in the slavery abolition movement in the 1820s and 1830s, and subsequent labour reforms supported by his Baptist missionary colleagues on the island such as Rev.
William Knox Leet William Knox Leet (VC, CB) born Dalkey, Co Dublin 3 November 1833 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 Kristol William "Bill" Kristol (born December 23, 1952 in New York City) is a American neoconservative pundit, inspired in part by the ideas of Leo Strauss. William Kristol is intervied about Strauss' impact on US policy.
William Kruskal William Henry Kruskal (October 10, 1919 – April 21, 2005) was an American mathematician and statistician. He is best known for having formulated the Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance (together with W.
William Kushner William Kushner is a clarinet player and conductor of the Lake Charles Symphony in Lake Charles, Louisiana]. He was also conductor of the Rapides Symphony Orchestra in [[Alexandria, Louisiana] from [[1968 to 2002, when he retired.
William Kwai Sun Chow William Kwai Sun Chow (aka William Ah Sun Chow Hoon) was born July 3, 1914 in Honolulu, Hawaii and died September 21, 1987. He was instrumental in the development of the martial arts in the United States, specifically the family of styles referred to as kenpo/kempo, kajukenbo and karazenpo go shinjutsu.
William L. Hungate William Leonard Hungate (born December 14, 1922) was a Member of Congress (D-9th Dist. Missouri) between November 3, 1964 (special election upon the death of Congressman Clarence Cannon) and January 3, 1977, representing the Ninth Congressional District.
William L. Jenkins William Lewis "Bill" Jenkins (born November 291936) is a politician from the state of Tennessee. He has represented the state's 1st Congressional district, centered around the Tri-Cities (map), since 1997.
William L. Laurence William Leonard Laurence (March 7, 1888–March 19, 1977) was a Lithuanian-American journalist known for his science journalism writing of the 1940s and 1950s while working for the New York Times. He received two Pulitzer Prizes, and as the official journalist of the Manhattan Project was the only journalist to witness the Trinity test and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
William L. Marcy William Learned Marcy (December 12, 1786–July 4, 1857) was an American statesman. He was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts, graduated from Brown University, taught school in Newport, Rhode Island, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1811, and commenced practice in Troy, New York.
William L. McKnight William L. McKnight (born 11 November 1887 in White, South Dakota, died 4 March 1978) was an American business man who served his entire career in 3M corporation, rising to chairman of the board from 1949 to 1966.
William L. Nelson Wiliam Lester Nelson (August 4, 1875–December 31, 1946) was an American farmer and politician from Columbia, Missouri. He represented Missouri as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives for several terms: 1919-1921, 1925-1933 and 1935-1943.
William L. Patterson William L. Patterson (1890–1980) was a leader in the Communist Party USA and head of the International Labor Defense, a group that offered legal representation to communists, trade unionists, and African-Americans in cases involving issues of political or racial persecution.
William L. Shirer William Lawrence Shirer (February 23, 1904 – December 28, 1993) was an American journalist and historian. He became known for his broadcasts on CBS from the German capital of Berlin during the Third Reich through the first year of World War II.
William L. Steele William LaBarthe Steele (1875-1949) was an important architect of the Prairie School during the early twentieth century. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Steele worked in the offices of Louis Sullivan in Chicago, Illinois, before settling in Sioux City, Iowa.
William La Follette William Leroy La Follette (November 30, 1860-December 20, 1934) was a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Washington. He represented the 3rd District from 1911 to 1915, and the 4th District from 1915 to 1919.
William La Touche Congreve William La Touche Congreve (March 12, 1891-July 20, 1916) (VC, DSO, MC) 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 Labov William Labov (pronounced ; born December 4, 1927) is a professor in the linguistics department of the University of Pennsylvania. He is widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics and pursues research in sociolinguistics and dialectology.
William Lacy Clay, Jr. William Lacy Clay, Jr., sometimes known as Lacy Clay (born July 27, 1956), American politician, was elected as Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives in 2000 to represent the First Congressional District of Missouri (map).
William Lamb Picknell William Lamb Picknell (October 23, 1853 – August 8, 1897) was a United States painter of landscapes, coastal views, and figure genres, known for his rapid painting style. He was born in Hinesburg, Vermont and died in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, FRS (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830-1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835-1841), and a mentor of Queen Victoria.
William Lambert (cricketer) William Lambert (born 1779 at Burstow, Surrey; died 19 April 1851 at Nutfield, Surrey) was a famous English cricketer in the first two decades of the 19th century. Playing mainly for Surrey from 1801, but also for MCC and some other county teams, Lambert was a right-hand batsman and an underarm slow bowler.
William Lamond Allardyce Sir William Lamond Allardyce (November 14, 1861 – June 10, 1930) was a career British civil servant in the Colonial Office who served as governor of Fiji (1901-1902), the Falkland Islands (1904-1914), Bahamas (1914-1920), Tasmania (1920-1922), and Newfoundland (1922-1928).
William Lamport William Lamport (1615-1659) was an Irish-born Catholic adventurer who according to at least one historian gained a nickname of El Zorro, the Fox, due to his exploits in Mexico. The attribution of the nickname, however, is disputed.
William Lane Craig William Lane Craig (born August 23, 1949) is an American philosopher, theologian, New Testament historian, and Christian apologist. He is a prolific author and lecturer on a wide range of issues related to the philosophy of religion, the historical Jesus, the coherence of the Christian worldview, and natural theology.
William Langer William "Wild Bill" Langer (September 30 1886 – November 8 1959) was a prominent American politician from North Dakota. Langer is one of the most colorful characters in North Dakota history, most famously bouncing back from a scandal that forced him out of office and into prison.
William Langewiesche William Langewiesche is an American author and journalist, and was a professional airplane pilot for many years. He is currently a writer for Vanity Fair magazine, but made his name as a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly magazine.
William Langland William Langland is the conjectured author of the 14th-century English dream-vision Piers Plowman. The attribution of Piers to Langland rests principally on the evidence of a manuscript held at Trinity College, Dublin (MS 212).
William Lanier Hunt Arboretum The William Lanier Hunt Arboretum (over 100 acres) is an arboretum and natural area that forms part of the North Carolina Botanical Garden. It is operated by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
William Laskin Canadian luthier and musician William "Grit" Laskin is renowned for his high-quality instruments and acoustic guitar innovations such as the "Laskin Armrest" and "Ribrest", and his unmatched skill in the art of inlay. Larry Robinson, author of The Art Of Inlay, extols Laskin as "the most astonishing inlay artist in North America.
William Laud William Laud (October 7 1573 – January 10 1645) was Archbishop of Canterbury and a fervent supporter of King Charles I of England, whom he encouraged to believe in divine right. His support for Charles, absolute monarchy, and his persecuting of opposing views led to his beheading in the midst of the English Civil War.
William Lauder (forger) William Lauder (died 1771) was a Scottish literary forger, the second son of Dr William Lauder (1652 - 1724), one of the original 21 Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, by his spouse Catherine Brown (d.1698).
William Laurel Harris William Laurel Harris (born Brooklyn, New York 18 February 1870; son of Henry and Julia {Gillingham} Harris; died Lake George, New York 24 September, 1924), muralist, educator, editor and arts organizer was member Municipal Art Society (of which he was president in 1912), the Architectural League of New York (of which he was vice president), The National Mural Painters Society, and The Fine Arts Federation; he also founded the Art Centre with Katherine Dreier. He painted murals, designed the decorative elements, and continued the work of John LaFarge at the Church of Saint Paul the Apostle (also known as the Paulist Fathers Church) on 59th Street and 9th Avenue, New York City.
William Laurent William Laurent is a well known personality and authority in Corporate Governance and Data Warehousing. For the last 10 years he has authored countless articles and white papers on these subjects, most notably for Data Management Review Magazine where he became a regular columnist in 2006.
William Lawrence (Ohio) William Lawrence (June 26, 1819-May 8, 1899) was a Republican politician from Ohio. He was most noted for being a US Representative, and was influential in attempting to impeach Andrew Johnson, creating the United States Department of Justice, helping to create the American Red Cross, and ratifying the Geneva Convention.
William Lawrence Bragg Sir William Lawrence Bragg CH, FRS, (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 with his father Sir William Henry Bragg. He was the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge when the discovery of the structure of DNA was made by James Watson and Francis Crick in February 1953.
William Lawson William Lawson (2 June1774 – 16 June1850), explorer of New South Wales, Australia, was born in London and arrived in Sydney as an ensign with the New South Wales Corps in 1800. In 1808 and 1809 he was in charge of the new settlement at Coal River, now the city of Newcastle.
William Layton Nelson William Layton Nelson (born March 3, 1945) is a singer, songwriter, poet and musician currently 2006 living in Irving, Texas. William has been known as the Forestman for many years and is rarely seen without his black cowboy hat.
William Le Baron Jenney William Le Baron Jenney (25 September 1832—14 June 1907) was an American architect and engineer who became known as the Father of the American skyscraper . He was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts on September 25, 1832 .
William Le Lacheur William Le Lacheur (born 15 October 1802 Forest, Guernsey, Channel Islands, died 27 June 1863, London), was a Guernsey Sea Captain, who played an important role in the economic and spiritual development of the Central American country of Costa Rica.
William Le Queux William Tufnell Le Queux (July 2, 1864 London - October 13, 1927) was a British journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat, an explorer, a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available; his claims regarding his own abilities and exploits, however, were usually exaggerated.
William Leader Maberly William Leader Maberly (1798–1885) spent most of his life as a British army officer and politician. In 1836, Maberly was appointed as joint secretary to the General Post Office, where he strongly opposed the introduction of the penny post, a plan championed by Rowland Hill to charge a fixed price for postage (as is now the normal practice in most of the world).
William Lederer William Julius Lederer (born March 31, 1912) was an American author, US Naval Academy graduate in 1936, and Cold warrior. His first appointment was as the junior officer of a river gunboat on the Yangtze River.
William Lee Antonie William Lee Antonie (1764-1815), son of Sir William Lee, Chief Justice of the King's Bench and brother of Harriet Lee lived at Totteridge Park, formerly in Hertfordshire and owned Colworth House near Sharnbrook in Bedfordshire.
William Lee Scott William Lee Scott (Born July 6,1973) is an American actor born in Hudson, New York. He has had roles in movies such as Gone in 60 seconds, Pearl Harbor, October Sky and The Butterfly Effect, but he is best known for his work on The Steve Harvey Show as dim-witted student Stanley "Bullethead" Kuznocki.
William Leech Professorial Fellow in Applied Christian Theology The William Leech Professorial Fellow in Applied Christian Theology is a five-year research fellowship endowed by Sir William Leech. The fellow is to conduct research into applied Christian theology, focusing predominantly on theology and society.
William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth (1672-1750), only son of George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth, succeeded to his fathers barony in 1691. In 1702 he was appointed a member of the Board of Trade and Plantations, and eight years later he became Secretary of State for the Southern Department and joint keeper of the signet for Scotland.
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth William Legge 2nd Earl of Dartmouth PC, FRS (June 20 1731 - July 7 1801) was a British statesman who is most remembered for his part in the government before and during the American Revolution. For King George III, Legge was the 2nd Secretary of State for the Colonies, serving from 1772 to 1775.
William Leighton Carss William Leighton Carss, (February 15, 1865 – May 31, 1931) a Representative from Minnesota; born in Pella, Marion County, Iowa, and subsequently moved with his parents to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1867. There he attended the public schools, studied civil and mechanical engineering and followed that profession for a number of years.
William LeMessurier William James LeMessurier (1926 - ) is a prominent structural engineer. Born in Pontiac, Michigan, LeMessurier graduated with an AB from Harvard, went to Harvard Graduate School of Design and then earned a master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953.
William Lenoir (general) William Lenoir (1751-1839) was an American Revolutionary War officer and prominent statesman in late 18th-century and early 19th-century North Carolina. The city of Lenoir, North Carolina and Lenoir County, North Carolina are named for him, and Lenoir City, Tennessee is named for him and for his son, William Ballard Lenoir.
William Leonard Courtney William Leonard Courtney (1850–November 1, 1928) was an English author, born at Poona, India, and educated at Oxford. In 1873 he became headmaster of Somersetshire College, Bath, and in 1894 editor of the Fortnightly Review.
William Leonard Marshall William Marshall (or William Leonard Marshall) (born 1944, Australia) is an Australian author, best known for his Hong Kong-based "Yellowthread Street" mystery novels, some of which which were used as the basis for a British TV series.
William Lescaze William Edmond Lescaze (Onex, Switzerland, 27 March 1896 – New York, New York, 9 February 1969) was a Swiss-born American architect, and is considered one of the pioneers of modernism in American architecture.
William Lethaby William Richard Lethaby (January 18, 1857 - July 17, 1931) was an English architect and architectural historian whose ideas were highly influential on the late Arts and Crafts and early Modern movements in architecture, and in the fields of conservation and art education.

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