People — W
William Wright
1563 – 1639
theologian
William Wright Virtue
1863 – 1926
scientist
William Wright
1930 – 2016
writer
William Wrightson
1676 – 1760
politician
William Wrightson
1752 – 1827
politician
William Wrigley
1861 – 1932
businessperson
William Wrigley III
1933 – 1999
businessperson
William Wrigley, Jr. II
b. 1963
entrepreneur
William Wriothesley
William Wroth
1576 – 1640
Christian minister
William Wroughton
1509 – 1559
politician
William Wu
b. 1993
entrepreneur
William Wulf
1939 – 2023
computer scientist
William Wulff
b. 1949
chemist
William Wurster
1895 – 1973
architect
William Wuycke
b. 1958
athletics competitor
William Wyamar Vaughan
1865 – 1938
writer
William Wyatt
1842 – 1908
cricketer
William Wyatt
1623 – 1685
academic
William Wyatt Bibb
1781 – 1820
politician
William Wyatt Gill
1828 – 1896
missionary
William Wyatt Pinching
1851 – 1878
rugby union player
William Wyatt
1804 – 1886
surgeon
William Wyatt
1893 – 1989
weightlifter
William Wybrow
1805 – 1897
cricketer
William Wycherley
1640 – 1716
playwright
William Wyckoff
b. 1955
university teacher
William Wycliffe Spooner
1882 – 1967
engineer
William Wyggeston
1467 – 1536
businessperson
William Wyinks
1854 – 1921
cricketer
William Wyld
1806 – 1889
painter
William Wyld
1859 – 1900
cricketer
William Wylde
1788 – 1877
military leader
William Wyler
1902 – 1981
screenwriter
William Wylie Galt
1919 – 1944
military personnel
William Wyllie
1802 – 1891
military officer
William Wymond Walkem
1850 – 1919
politician
William Wyndham
1796 – 1862
politician
William Wyndham Green
1887 – 1979
military personnel
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
1759 – 1834
politician
William Wynford
architect
William Wynn
1709 – 1760
poet
William Wynn
1876 – 1944
association football coach
William Wynn Jones
1900 – 1950
William Wynn Westcott
1848 – 1925
writer
William Wynn-Williams
1828 – 1913
politician
William Wynne
1671 – 1704
historian
William Wynne
b. 1990
athletics competitor
William Wynne
1692 – 1765
historian
William Wynne-Jones, Baron Wynne-Jones
1903 – 1982
chemist
William Wynne
1729 – 1815
lawyer
William Wynne
1764 – 1855
politician
William Wynne Ryland
1732 – 1783
artist
William Wynter
1521 – 1589
politician
William Wynyard
1864 – 1938
rugby league player
William Wynyard
1759 – 1819
military leader
William Wyon
1795 – 1851
sculptor
William Wyrley
1565 – 1618
heraldist
William Wyse
1860 – 1929
classical scholar
William Wyse
b. 1934
politician
William X, Count of Auvergne
1150 – 1247
William X, Duke of Aquitaine
1099 – 1137
aristocrat
William Xalco
b. 1984
field hockey player
William Xavier Ninde
1832 – 1901
William XII, Count of Auvergne and Boulogne
1300 – 1332
aristocrat
William Y. Adams
1927 – 2019
anthropologist
William Y. Anderson
1921 – 2011
flying ace
William Y. Baker
b. 1829
politician
William Y.C. Chen
politician
William Y. C. Humes
1830 – 1883
military leader
William Y. Cooper
1934 – 2016
artist
William Y. Gholson
1807 – 1870
lawyer
William Y. Humphreys
1890 – 1933
politician
William Y. Hutchinson
1916 – 2006
inventor
William Y. Pemberton
1841 – 1922
William Y. Roberts
William Y. Slack
1816 – 1862
lawyer
William Y. Smith
1925 – 2016
military officer
William Y. Thompson
1922 – 2013
military officer
William Y. W. Ripley
1832 – 1905
businessperson
William Yabeun
b. 1987
association football player
William Yabsley
1812 – 1880
William Yakutumba
b. 1970
William Yalden
1740 – 1824
cricketer
William Yaldwyn
1835 – 1919
politician
William Yale
1825 – 1909
barrister
William Yale Beach
1836 – 1910
businessperson
William Yale
1784 – 1833
politician
William Yalland
1889 – 1914
cricketer
William Yallup
1926 – 2006
William Yan Thorley
b. 2002
swimmer
William Yancey Brown
b. 1948
exhibition curator
William Yancey Lewis
1861 – 1915
lawyer
William Yandell Elliott
1896 – 1979
historian
William Yang
b. 1998
swimmer
William Yang
b. 1943
performing artist
William Yang Wang
computer scientist
William Yap
2001 – 2025
actor
William Yarbrough
b. 1989
association football player
William Yardley
1632 – 1693
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