William Jefferson Clinton (U.S. President); William Harrison (U.S. President); William Mckinley (U.S. President); William Taft (U.S. President); William Baldwin (actor); William Bonney (aka ”Billy the Kid”); William Clark (explorer); William Cody (aka ”Buffalo Bill”); William Faulkner (Nobel Prize winning author); William Golding (Nobel Prize winning author); William Randolph Hearst (tycoon); William Macy (actor); William Shatner (actor); William Blake (poet); William Butler Yeats (poet)