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William Jacobus vanden Heuvel was an American attorney, businessman, and author, as well as a diplomat. He was known for advising Robert F. Kennedy during the latter's campaigns for Senate in 1964 and president in 1968. Vanden Heuvel established the Roosevelt Institute in 1987. He was the father of Katrina vanden Heuvel, longtime editor of The Nation magazine, and Wendy vanden Heuvel, children from his marriage to author/editor Jean Stein, the daughter of MCA founder Jules C. Stein.

William Francis Melchert-Dinkel is an American former licensed practical nurse who was convicted in 2011 of encouraging people to die by suicide. He allegedly told those contemplating suicide what methods worked best, that it was an acceptable choice to take their own life, that they would be better off in heaven, and/or falsely entered into suicide pacts with them. He is a married father of two.

William Oughtred fue un clérigo anglicano y matemático británico. También fue un matemático muy destacado. También introdujo el símbolo "×" para la multiplicación y las abreviaturas "sin" y "cos" para las funciones seno y coseno además de ser el creador de las reglas rectas y circulares.

William MacAskill es un filósofo escocés especializado en filosofía moral, y uno de los promotores del movimiento de altruismo eficaz. Es profesor adjunto de filosofía en la Universidad de Oxford, investigador del Instituto de Prioridades Mundiales de Oxford y director de la Fundación de Previsión para la Investigación de Prioridades Mundiales.

William D. Swenson is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army who was awarded the Medal of Honor in a ceremony on October 15, 2013. He was the sixth living recipient in the War on Terror. Swenson, Thomas Payne and Matthew O. Williams are the only Medal of Honor recipients still on active duty.

William Alfred Newsom III was an American state appeals court judge, administrator of the Getty family trust, and the father of Governor of California Gavin Newsom.

William Bainbridge, (1774-1833) fue un comodoro de la Armada de Estados Unidos, que sirvió en las Guerras Berberiscas y en la Guerra de 1812.

William Charles Powers Jr. was an American attorney, academic, and university administrator who served as the 28th president of the University of Texas at Austin, becoming the second-longest serving president in the university's history. He held the position from February 1, 2006, to July 2, 2015, when he was succeeded by Gregory L. Fenves. Before his death, Powers held the Hines H. Baker and Thelma Kelley Baker Chair at the University of Texas School of Law.

William Albert "Bill" Chaney was an American historian of Anglo-Saxon England who spent his career, from 1952 until his death, teaching at Lawrence University. At various times, he held the George McKendree Steele endowed chair (1962–99) and the chair of the history department (1968–71).

William George Armstrong, primer barón Armstrong fue un ingeniero e industrial británico, que fundó la empresa mecánica Armstrong Whitworth en Tyneside. También fue un eminente científico, inventor y filántropo. En colaboración con el arquitecto Richard Norman Shaw, construyó en Northumberland Cragside, la primera casa del mundo iluminada por hidroelectricidad. Se le considera el inventor de la artillería moderna.