Words starting with W

• William and Mary — Noun – English ～ joint monarchs of England; William III and Mary II
• William Claire Menninger — Noun – English ～ United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1899-1966)
• William Schwenk Gilbert — Noun – English ～ a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)
• William of Occam — Noun – English ～ English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349)
• William Nunn Lipscom Jr. — Noun – English ～ United States chemist noted for his theories of molecular structure (born in 1919)
• William Strickland — Noun – English ～ United States architect and student of Latrobe (1787-1854)
• William I — Noun – English ～ duke of Normandy who led the Norman invasion of England and became the first Norman to be King of England; he defeated Harold II at the battle of Hastings in 1066 and introduced many Norman customs into England (1027-1087)
• William Henry Fox Talbot — Noun – English ～ English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)
• William Tatem Tilden Jr. — Noun – English ～ United States tennis player who dominated men's tennis in the 1920s (1893-1953)
• William Edward Burghardt Du Bois — Noun – English ～ United States civil rights leader and political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans (1868-1963)
• William Styron — Noun – English ～ United States writer best known for his novels (born in 1925)
• William Averell Harriman — Noun – English ～ United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons (1891-1986)
• William Henry Gates — Noun – English ～ United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
• William Chambers — Noun – English ～ English architect (1723-1796)
• William S. Burroughs — Noun – English ～ United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997)
• William Faulkner — Noun – English ～ United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)
• William Ashley Sunday — Noun – English ～ United States evangelist (1862-1935)
• William Patterson — Noun – English ～ American Revolutionary leader (born in Ireland) who was a member of the Constitutional Convention (1745-1806)
• William Maxwell Aitken — Noun – English ～ British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964)
• William Henry Hudson — Noun – English ～ English naturalist (born in Argentina) (1841-1922)

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