William Harrison Dempsey
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～ United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (1895-1983)
William Menninger
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～ United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1899-1966)
William Henry Beveridge
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～ British economist (born in India) whose report on social insurance provided the basis for most of the social legislation on which the welfare state in the United Kingdom is based (1879-1963)
William Dudley Haywood
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～ United States labor leader and militant socialist who was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (1869-1928)
William Shockley
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～ United States physicist (born in England) who contributed to the development of the electronic transistor (1910-1989)
William Jennings Bryan
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～ United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925)
William Henry Mauldin
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～ United States cartoonist noted for his drawings of soldiers in battle (1921-2003)
William Dawes
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～ American patriot who rode with Paul Revere to warn that the British were advancing on Lexington and Concord (1745-1799)
William Saroyan
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～ United States writer of plays and short stories (1908-1981)
William Bligh
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～ British admiral; was captain of the H.M.S. Bounty in 1789 when part of the crew mutinied and set him afloat in an open boat; a few weeks later he arrived safely in Timor 4,000 miles away (1754-1817)
William Howard Taft
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～ 27th President of the United States and later chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1857-1930)
William Blake
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～ visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)
William Seward Burroughs
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～ United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997)
William Henry Hoover
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～ United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
William H. Bonney
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～ United States outlaw who was said to have killed 21 men (1859-1881)
William Hoover
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～ United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
William Shakespeare
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～ English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)
William Harvey
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～ English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood; he later proposed that all animals originate from an ovum produced by the female of the species (1578-1657)
William Crawford Gorgas
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～ United States Army surgeon who suppressed yellow fever in Havana and in the Panama Canal Zone (1854-1920)
William Cuthbert Faulkner
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～ United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)