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William Maud Bryant William Maud Bryant (February 16 1933 – March 24 1969) was a United States Army Special Forces soldier and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War.
William Maudit, 8th Earl of Warwick William Maudit, 8th Earl of Warwick (? – 8 January 1267), was the son of Alice de Beaumont (daughter of the 4th Earl) and William de Maudit, and so himself the grandson of Waleran de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Warwick.
William May William May (or Mey(e)) (died in 1560), English divine was the brother of John May, bishop of Carlisle. He was educated at Cambridge, where he was a fellow of Trinity Hall, and in 1537, president of Queens' College.
William Maynard Gomm Field Marshal Sir William Maynard Gomm GCB (1784 – 1875), British soldier, was gazetted to the 9th Foot at the age of ten in recognition of the services of his father, Lieutenant-Colonel William Gomm, who was killed in the attack on Guadaloupe (1794). He joined his regiment as a lieutenant in 1799, and fought in the Netherlands under the Duke of York, and subsequently was with Sir James Pulteney's Ferrol expedition.
William Mayne William Mayne (1928-) is a British writer of children's fiction. He was described as one of the outstanding children's authors of the 20th Century by the Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, and is the winner of the Carnegie Medal and Guardian fiction awards.
William McBean William McBean (1 January 1818 - 23 June 1878) 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 McBryar William McBryar (February 14 1861 – March 8 1941) was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States.
William McCombie William McCombie (1805 – February 1880), Scottish agriculturist, was born at Tillyfour, Aberdeenshire, where he founded the herd of black-polled cattle with which his name is associated. He was the first tenant farmer to represent a Scottish constituency, and was returned to parliament, unopposed, as Liberal member for the western division of Aberdeen in 1868.
William McDonough William A. McDonough (1951, Tokyo, Japan - ) is an American architect and founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, whose career is focused on designing environmentally sustainable buildings and transforming industrial manufacturing processes, with the twin goals of eliminating pollution and increasing the profits of his clients.
William McFarland William McFarland was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 1st congressional district of Tennessee. He was born on September 15, 1821 at Springvale Farm near Morristown, Tennessee in Jefferson (now Hamblen) County.
William McGonagle William Loren McGonagle (November 19, 1925 – March 3, 1999) was a United States Naval officer in command of the USS Liberty when he was attacked by the Israel Defense Force. He was awarded a Medal of Honor for his service during the attack.
William McIlvanney William McIlvanney (born in November 25, 1936Âą in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland) is a writer of crime stories, novels, and poetry. McIlvanney is a champion of gritty yet poetic literature, his works Laidlaw, The Papers of Tony Veitch, and Walking Wounded are all known for their portrayal of Glasgow in the 1970s.
William McIntosh William McIntosh (1775 – April 30, 1825), also known as White Warrior, was the son of Captain William McIntosh, a member of a prominent Savannah, Georgia family sent into the Creek Nation to recruit them to fight for the British during the Revolutionary War (Captain McIntosh's mother was a sister of Lachlan McGillivray of the McGillivrary Chiefs Lineage). His mother, a Creek named Senoya (possibly spelled Senoia), was a member of the prominent Wind Clan.
William McKean William Wister McKean (19 September, 1800 – 22 April, 1865) was an admiral in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was noted for his service in the Union blockade that effectively closed Confederate seaports in the Gulf of Mexico.
William Mclellan Sir William McLellan, sometimes called "1st Lord Kirkcudbright", was the son of Sir Thomas of Bombie, and is best remembered in his undertaking as inspired by a proclamation of King James I of England the barony of Kirkcudbright, to whoever should disperse a troublesome thief known as the black terror'dead or alive'.
William McLaren William McLaren (1923-1987) grew up in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland with a crippling handicap that affected his feet. In 1944 he earned his Diploma and the Highly Commended Post Diploma from Edinburgh College of Art.
William McLaren Bristol William McLaren Bristol was one of the two co-founders (along with John Ripley Myers) of Bristol-Myers Squibb. Myers and Bristol founded the company that would evolve into an international pharmaceutical giant in Bristol's hometown of Clinton, New York in 1887.
William McMahon Sir William McMahon, GCMG, CH, PC (23 February 1908 – 31 March 1988), Australian politician and 20th Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Sydney, New South Wales, where his father was a lawyer. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and at the University of Sydney, where he graduated in law.
William McMaster William McMaster (December 24, 1811 – September 22, 1887) was a wholesaler, Senator and banker in the 1800s. He served in the Canadian Senate from 1867–1887 as a Liberal and as the founding president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, now CIBC from 1867–1887.
William McMaster Murdoch Lieutenant William McMaster Murdoch RNR (February 28, 1873 - April 15, 1912) was RMS Titanic's First Officer, and was one of 1,496 people who died when the luxury liner sank in the Atlantic in 1912. Murdoch was on duty when he was given the shout: Iceberg right ahead before he famously replied: Stop engines, full astern together, hard a-starboard, and rang the warning bell.
William McNeill (historian) William Hardy McNeill (born October 31, 1917, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a world historian. He is among the world's most respected historians and was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago.
William McPherson, OSU William McPherson (July 2, 1864 - October 2, 1951) was the acting President of The Ohio State University from July 1, 1938 to March 1, 1940. A chemistry laboratory is named for him at The Ohio State University.
William McWheeney William McWheeney (1837 - May 17, 1866) was born in Bangor, County Down. He was an Irishman and 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 Mein Smith William Mein Smith was a key actor in the early settlement of New Zealand's capital city, Wellington. As the Surveyor General for the Wakefield's New Zealand Company at Port Nicholson from 1840 to 1843, he and his team surveyed the town of Wellington, after finding the land on the Petone foreshore unsuitable, laying out the Town Belt and other features.
William Merrell Vories William Merrell Vories (October 28, 1880 - May 7, 1964) was an architect born in the USA who worked mainly in Japan. He was also one of the founders of "ヴォーリズ合名会社" (later "近江兄弟社") widely selling Mentholatum in Japan.
William Merrifield William Merrifield (VC, MM) (9 August 1892- 8 August 1943) was a Canadian 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 Meyer William Meyer (22 June 1863 – 6 September 1926) was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Battle of Cienfuegos during the Spanish-American War.
William Michaels William Michaels was an American professional heavyweight boxer who competed in the early twentieth century. He won a bronze medal in Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics losing to Charles Mayer in the semi-finals.
William Miller (general) Fluent in several languages, William Miller served in the British army towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars. In 1817, hearing of the wars in Latin America, he set sail for Buenos Aires to join San Martin's Army of the Andes.
William Miller architect William Miller Architect is the professional name of an Australian architect who specialised in health infrastructure planning. He left Australia in the mid sixties to work for Maxwell Fry, principal of Fry Drew Knight and Creamer, one of England's great modern architects and town planners.
William Miller Sperry Observatory The William Miller Sperry Observatory, also known simply as the Sperry Observatory, is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Amateur Astronomers, Incorporated on Union County College on their Cranford, New Jersey campus. It was named after William Miller Sperry and dedicated in 1967.
William Miranda Marín William "Willie" Miranda Marín (born on September 23, 1940) is the mayor of Caguas, Puerto Rico. The son of José Miranda Gómez, a sugar cane cutter, and Rafaela Marín, a tobacco stripper, Miranda Marin was born in the Tomás de Castro sector of rural Caguas.
William Mitford William Mitford (February 10, 1744 - February 10, 1827), English historian, was the elder of the two sons of John Mitford, a barrister, who lived near Beaulieu, at the edge of the New Forest. Here, at Exbury House, his father's property, Mitford was born.
William Mitchell (philosopher) Sir William Mitchell (1861–1962) was Professor of English Language, Literature and Mental and Moral Philosophy at the University of Adelaide from 1894–1922, Vice-Chancellor 1916–1942 and Chancellor 1942–1948.
William Mitchell (RAF officer) Air Chief Marshal Sir William Gore Sutherland Mitchell KCB CBE DSO MC AFC RAF (8 March, 1888 - 15 August, 1944) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force and the first RAF officer to hold the post of Black Rod.
William Mitchell (Reverend) Reverend William Mitchell (born 20 November 1803 in the County of Monaghan, Ireland - died August 3 1870 in Perth, Western Australia, buried at Middle Swan) was a Church of England priest who was the first ordained person to provide religious services in the Swan Valley area of the Swan River Colony. He worked in the Swan Parish for over 20 years before moving to Perth to take up a position working with convicts and prisoners in the Perth Gaol in Beaufort Street.
William Mitchell Ramsay Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (March 15, 1851, Glasgow –April 20, 1939) was a Scottish archaeologist. He was educated at the universities of Aberdeen, Oxford (St John's College) and Göttingen, and was a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford (1882; honorary fellow 1898), and Lincoln College (1885; honorary 1899).
William Moats Farm The William Moats Farm in Ashton, Illinois, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Located in Ogle County, Illinois, the monument is the city of Ashton's only Registered Place, though there are numerous others scattered throughout the county.
William Monroe Trotter William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934), born Springfield Township, Ohio, was an African-American newspaper editor and protest leader. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University in 1895.
William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly, PC (21 September 1812–20 April 1894) was the President of the Board of Health of the United Kingdom (a position now known as the Secretary of State for Health) between 9 February 1857 and 24 September 1857.
William Montgomery (North Carolina) William Montgomery (December 29, 1789– November 27, 1844) was an American physician and politician from Orange County, North Carolina. He represented North Carolina in the United States House of Representatives from 1835 until 1841.
William Montgomery (Pennsylvania) William Montgomery (August 3, 1736–May 1, 1816) was an American jurist and politician from Chester County, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives from 1793 until 1795.
William Montgomery Brown William Montgomery Brown (1855-1937) was an Episcopal bishop and Communist author, of Galion, Ohio. Bishop William Montgomery Brown was one of the most fascinating individuals in the history of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the twentieth century, for he was, according to his obituary, "the first Bishop of his communion to be tried for heresy since the Reformation, and the first of any creed in America to be disposed for heretical teachings.
William Mooney William Mooney played the character called Paul Martin #2 in All My Children, daytime soap opera. He was one of the nominees for Daytime Emmy Awards in 1980 in the category Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
William Moore (actor) William Moore (19 April 1915–24 April 2000) was an English actor who appeared in many television programmes such as Coronation Street as Cyril Turpin, Betty Turpin's husband from 1969–1974. He also appeared in Emmerdale Farm, and Sorry!.
William Moorsom Captain William Scarth Moorsom (1804-1863) was an English soldier and engineer. He was born in Whitby to a military family, being the son of an admiral, and trained at Sandhurst, becoming a captain in the 52nd regiment (Royal Engineers).
William Mordaunt Marsh Edwards William Mordaunt Marsh Edwards (7 May 1855 - 17 September 1912) 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 Morgan Jellett William Morgan Jellett (19 May 1857 – 27 October 1936) was an Irish Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Irish Unionists were the Irish wing of the Conservative Party.
William Morice Sir William Morice, 1st Baronet (c. 1628 - 7 February 1690) was an English royalist statesman of the 17th century who served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department and a Lord of the Treasury from June 1660 to September 1668
William Morris William Morris (March 24, 1834 – October 3, 1896) was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the British Arts and Crafts movement, best known as a designer of wallpaper and patterned fabrics, a writer of poetry and fiction and a pioneer of the socialist movement in Britain.
William Morris (glass artist) William "Billy" Morris is an American glass artist born in Carmel, California on July 25, 1957. He was educated at California State University, Chico, California and Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington.
William Morris Bioff William Morris ("Willie") Bioff (1900-November 4, 1955) was an American organized crime figure who operated as a labor leader in the movie production business from the 1920s through the 1940s. During this time, Bioff extorted millions of dollars from movie studios with the threat of mass union work stoppages.
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil William Shepherd Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, GCMG, MC, PC, QC (8 October 1893 – 3 February 1961), 14th Governor-General of Australia, was born in Scotland and educated at the University of Edinburgh. He joined the British Army in the First World War and served with an artillery regiment in France, where he won the Military Cross.
William Morrow (screenwriter) William Morrow (16 August, 1907–5 February, 1971) was a comedic screenwriter who wrote scripts for the Jack Benny films Love Thy Neighbor (1940) and Buck Benny Rides Again (1940), the star vehicle Tales of Manhattan (1942), the Hope and Crosby farce Road to Bali (1952), and the The Bing Crosby Show (1959). Morrow also acted in an uncredited role in the 1934 film Picture Palace.
William Morton (Manitoba politician) William Morton (born July 3, 1884 in Gladstone, Manitoba; died 1958) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1927 to 1958, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of John Bracken, Stuart Garson and Douglas Campbell.
William Moulton Marston Dr. William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947) was a psychologist, feminist theorist, and comic book writer who created the "Wonder Woman" character with his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston.
William Moyer Bill Moyer (September 17, 1933 - Present, was a United States social change activist, author, and founding member of the Movement for a New Society. MNS participants produced the Macro-Analysis process (see www.
William Muldoon William Muldoon was a professional wrestler. Long before Georg Hackenschmidt and Frank Gotch, he was the dominant figure in heavyweight professional wrestling, making him the first major star in American pro wrestling.
William Murdoch William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (August 21, 1754 - November 15, 1839) was a Scottish engineer and inventor. He was employed by the firm of Boulton and Watt and worked for them in Cornwall as a steam engine erector for ten years, spending most of the rest of his life in Birmingham.
William Murphy (bishop) The Most Reverend William Murphy is the fourth and current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York, serving in this capacity since 2001. As such, he is the head of the sixth largest diocese in the United States.
William Murphy (scientist) William Parry Murphy (Stoughton, Wisconsin, February 6, 1892 – October 9, 1987) was an American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combined work in devising and treating macrocytic anaemia.
William Murray Caldwell William Murray Caldwell (May 18 1832 – September 29 1870) was a New Brunswick businessman and political figure. He represented Restigouche in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal member from 1868 to 1870.
William Murrill William Alphonso Murrill (1869-1957) was a mycologist, taxonomist, writer, and authority on the fleshy fungi (Basidiomycetes) who was born October 13, 1869, near Lynchburg, Virginia. He collected over 70,000 specimens of fungi in North and South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean including over 1700 type specimens.
William Mustard William Thorton Mustard (August 8, 1914–December 11, 1987) was a Canadian physician and cardiac surgeon. In 1949, he was one of the first to perform open-heart surgery using a mechanical heart pump and biological lung on a dog at the Banting Institute.
William N. Barron William Nelson Barron, born December 1859 in Reading, Berkshire, England, was a lawyer from who settled in Poplar Bluff, Missouri in about 1894. In 1900, he became the plant manager and president of a factory that manufactured barrel staves and headers, known as the Brooklyn Cooperage Company after 1910, a subsidiary of the American Sugar Refining Company.
William N. Deramus III William Neal Deramus III (December 10, 1915 – November 15, 1989) was an American railroad executive; he led the Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW), the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, and the Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) through periods of great change in the railroad industry.
William N. Deramus, Jr. William Neal Deramus, Jr. (March 25 1888 – December 2 1965) was an American railroad executive; he led the Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) through the depression by encouraging industry to locate on the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Texas.
William Napier William Napier (1828 - June 2nd, 1908) 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 Nash William Nash (April 23, 1824 - April 29, 1875) born in Newcastle, County Limerick he 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 Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford (1717 – 28 September 1781), was a British diplomat and statesman. Having gained experience as envoy at Turin from 1749 to 1753, he was ambassador at Madrid from 1763 to 1766 and at Paris from 1766 to 1768.
William Nathan Wrighte Hewett William Nathan Wrighte Hewett (VC, KCB) (2 August 1834-13 May 1888) 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 Nelson (governor) William Nelson (1711 – November 19, 1772) was an American planter and colonial leader from Yorktown, Virginia. In the interim between the royal governors Norborne Berkeley and Lord Dunmore, he served as governor of colonial Virginia in 1770 and 1771.
William Nevill, 16th Baron Bergavenny William Nevill 16th Baron Bergavenny (before 1701 - 21st September 1744) was an English Peer. The son of Captain Edward Nevill, he succeeded to the earldom upon the death of his cousin, who had died without issue.
William Newcomb William Newcomb, a professor and theoretical physicist at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, is best known as the creator of Newcomb's paradox, devised in 1960. He is the great-grandson of the brother of the astronomer Simon Newcomb.
William Nicol William Nicol (1770 - 1851) was a Scottish physicist and geologist who invented the first device for obtaining plane-polarized light - the Nicol prism - in 1828. He was born in 1770 in Humbie (East Lothian), not 1768 as previously thought.
William Nierenberg William Aaron Nierenberg (1919 – 2000) was an American physicist and the director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1965 through 1986. A building on that campus is named after him, as is the Nierenberg Prize.
William Nichol Cresswell William Nichol Cresswell (March 12, 1818 – June 19, 1888; his middle name is sometimes also given as "Nicol[l]") was an English painter who emigrated to Canada in 1848. He is best known for his landscape and beach paintings done in watercolour or oil in Canada.
William Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson Field Marshal Sir William Gustavus Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson GCB (2 March 1845—13 September 1918), was an officer of the British Army who, in a half-century of service, rose through the ranks in India and the Boer War to the rank of Field Marshal. After retirement, he was called for final duty in World War I.
William Niven William Niven (1850-1937) was a mineralogist and archeologist noted for his discovery of the minerals yttrialite, thorogummite, aguilarite and nivenite (named after him), as well as a set of controversial tablets. Originally from Scotland, Niven came to the United States in 1879, where he became heavily involved in mineralogy and mining.
William Norman William Norman (1832–March 131896) of Warrington 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 Norman Grigg William Norman Grigg was the senior editor and a prolific contributor to The New American, the official magazine of the John Birch Society. His writing reflects views heavily influenced by constitutionalism, libertarianism, and anti-communism.
William Norman Guthrie William Norman Guthrie (March 4, 1868, Dundee, Scotland- December 9, 1944) was an American clergyman. He was educated at the University of the South, and from 1889 to 1910 was lecturer and professor of literature at several universities, including the University of Chicago.
William Norris William Charles Norris (July 14, 1911 near Red Cloud, Nebraska – August 21, 2006) was the pioneering CEO of Control Data Corporation, at one time one of the most powerful and respected computer companies in the world. He is famous for taking on IBM in a head-on fight and winning, as well as being a social activist who used Control Data's expansion in the late 1960s to bring jobs and training to inner-cities and disadvantaged communities.
William Norris (locomotive builder) William Norris (July 2 1802 – January 5 1867) was an American steam locomotive builder. He founded the Norris Locomotive Works and through this company pioneered the use of the 4-2-0 (the Norris type) locomotive type in America during the 1840s.
William Norton, 2nd Baron Grantley William Norton (19 February, 1742–12 November, 1822) was a British MP and peer. His father Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley was created a peer on 9 April, 1782, from which time William Norton was styled 'the Honourable'.
William Nowland William Nowland, Born September 1804 and died 28th April 1884 aged 79 years and 7 months, son of Michael Nowland, and the discoverer of Nowlands Gap, the "gateway" to the Liverpool Plains and first road into the Hunter Valley. His body laid to rest in TBA near Singleton NSW.
William Nuti William Nuti is president and CEO of NCR Corporation, the self-service company. As the leading global provider of ATMs, self-service kiosks and self-checkout systems, NCR is driving the adoption of self-service technologies across a growing number of industries worldwide, including retail, financial, hospitality and health care.
William of Albania William of Wied (26 March 1876–18 April 1945) reigned briefly as sovereign of Albania from February 21, 1914 to September 3, 1914. Outside the country and in diplomatic correspondence, he was styled sovereign prince, but in Albanian he was referred to as mbret, or king.
William of Apulia William of Apulia was a chronicler of the Normans, writing in the 1090s. His Latin poem, The deeds of Robert Guiscard, one of the principal contemporary sources for the Norman conquests in southern Italy, was composed between 1096 and 1099.
William of Aumelas William of Aumelas (or Omelas) was the second son of William V of Montpellier and of Ermessende, daughter of count Peter of Melgueil. The lordship of Aumelas (the Aumeladez) was detached from the territories of Montpellier to create a property for him.
William of Baskerville William of Baskerville is a fictional Franciscan friar from the novel Il Nome Della Rosa (The Name of the Rose) by Umberto Eco. Brother William was an inquisitor, who presided some trials in England and Italy, where he distinguished himself by his perspicacity along with great humility.
William of Capparone William of Capparone was a Norman knight of Palermo who came to power as the regent of Sicily and guardian of Frederick I in 1202 after the death of Markward von Anweiler. He held the post for the next four years until 1206.
William of Gellone Saint William of Gellone (755-traditionally May 28, c.812 or 814), in his own day Guilhem, also known as Guillaume d'Orange, Guillaume Fierabrace, and the Marquis au court nez, was the second count of Toulouse from 790 until his replacement in 811.
William of Jumièges William of Jumièges was a contemporary of the events of 1066, and one of our earliest writers on the subject of the Norman Conquest. He is himself a "shadowy figure", only known by his dedicatory letter to King William as a monk of Jumièges.
William of Marseille William of MarseilleAlso known as Guillelmus Massiliensis. He is called Guillaume l'Anglais (William of England, William the Englishman, Guilielmus Anglicus, Guillelmus Anglicus), but these names may refer to numerous people of the period.
William of Moerbeke Willem van Moerbeke, known in the English speaking world as William of Moerbeke (ca1215 - 1286) was a figure of great culture, in touch with many of the first minds of his day. He was a prolific medieval translator of philosophical, medical, and scientific texts from Greek into Latin.
William of Montreuil William of Montreuil () was an Italian Norman freebooter of the mid-eleventh century. He was described by Amatus of Monte Cassino as an exceptional knight, small in stature, who was very robust, strong, valiant and by Orderic Vitalis as le Bon Normand, "the Good Norman.
William of Orange William of Orange (French: Guillaume, Dutch: Willem, German Wilhelm) is the name of several historical people. In the context of Irish and British history, it refers most often to William III of England; in the context of Dutch history, it is usually in reference to William the Silent.
William of Saliceto William of Saliceto (or Guglielmo da Saliceto) (1210 - 1277) was a surgeon and cleric in Lombardy who broke tradition with Galen by claiming that pus formation was bad for wounds and for the patient. He was a professor at the University of Bologna.
William of Tudela William of Tudela (in Occitan, Guilhem de Tudela; in French, Guillaume de Tudèle; fl. 1199-1214) was the author of the first part of the Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise or Song of the Albigensian Crusade, an epic poem in Occitan giving a contemporary account of the crusade against the Cathars.

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