List of people with surname Williams
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Williams is a common European surname. This list provides links to biographies of people who share this common surname.

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  • Aaron Williams
    Aaron Williams
    Aaron Williams is an American former professional basketball player. He played at the power forward and center positions.-Basketball career:...

    , an American professional basketball player
  • Aeneas Williams
    Aeneas Williams
    Aeneas Demetrius Williams is a former American football cornerback and free safety, who played with the Arizona Cardinals and the St. Louis Rams. Williams attended Fortier High School, where he played football on a team with three future NFL players. Although he was admitted to Dartmouth College,...

    , an American football player and NFL free safety
  • Alan Williams (novelist)
    Alan Williams (novelist)
    Alan Williams is an ex-foreign correspondent, novelist and writer of thrillers. He was educated at Stowe, Grenoble and Heidelberg Universities, and at King's College, Cambridge. His father was the actor and writer Emlyn Williams. His younger brother Brook was also an actor.Williams was briefly...

    , British novelist, thriller writer and ex-foreign correspondent
  • Ali Williams
    Ali Williams
    Alexander James "Ali" Williams is a New Zealand rugby union player at the position of lock. He represented Auckland and plays for the Blues in the Super 14, when he signed for the Tasman provincial side. In 2008, he played for the Crusaders in the Super 14 and in 2010 signed on loan for Nottingham...

    , New Zealand rugby player
  • Alun Williams
    Alun Williams
    Alun Williams, O.B.E. was a Welsh radio presenter who became one of the best known voices on BBC radio when he commentated on events such as the Coronation in 1953 and sports events including rugby, swimming and the Olympic Games.-Biography:Williams' father was a presbyterian minister and he was...

     (1920–1992), Welsh radio presenter
  • Amy Williams
    Amy Williams
    Amy Joy Williams MBE is an English skeleton racer and Olympic gold medallist. Originally a runner, she began training in skeleton after trying the sport on a push-start track at the University of Bath...

    , English skeleton
    Skeleton (sport)
    Skeleton is a fast winter sliding sport in which an individual person rides a small sled down a frozen track while lying face down, during which athletes experience forces up to 5g. It originated in St. Moritz, Switzerland as a spin-off from the popular British sport of Cresta Sledding...

     racer and Olympic gold medalist
  • Andre Williams
    Andre Williams
    Andre Williams is an American R&B and punk blues musician who started his career in the 1950s at Fortune Records in Detroit.-Biography:...

     (born Zephire Andre Williams in 1936), American R&B and rock and roll musician
  • Andy Williams
    Andy Williams
    Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is an American singer who has recorded 18 Gold- and three Platinum-certified albums. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a TV variety show, from 1962 to 1971, as well as numerous television specials, and owns his own theater, the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri,...

     (born 1927), American singer
  • Angel Williams, Canadian female pro wrestler
  • Ann Williams (politician) (born 1968), American politician, Representative for the 11th District of the Illinois House of Representatives
    Illinois House of Representatives
    The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois. The body was created by the first Illinois Constitution adopted in 1818. The state House of Representatives is made of 118 representatives elected from...

  • Anthony A. Williams
    Anthony A. Williams
    Anthony Allen "Tony" Williams is an American politician who served as the fifth mayor of the District of Columbia for two terms, from 1999 to 2007. He had previously served as chief financial officer for the District, managing to balance the budget and achieve a surplus within two years of...

     (born 1951), American politician and mayor of Washington, D.C.
  • Antonio Williams (Medal of Honor), American Medal of Honor recipients
  • Archie Williams
    Archie Williams
    Archibald Franklin Williams was an African-American athlete and teacher, winner of 400 meter run at the 1936 Summer Olympics....

    , American athlete
  • Archie Williams (footballer)
    Archie Williams (footballer)
    Archie Williams was a Scottish football player, who played for Hearts, Motherwell and Dunfermline.- External links :*, Neil Brown...

     (1927–1985), Scottish footballer
  • Armstrong Williams
    Armstrong Williams
    Armstrong Williams is an African American political commentator, author of a conservative newspaper column, and host of a daily radio show and a nationally syndicated TV program, called The Right Side with Armstrong Williams. From 2004 to 2007, he co-hosted a daily radio program with Sam...

    , American political columnist

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  • Barry Williams
    Barry Williams
    Barry William Blenkhorn , known professionally as Barry Williams, is an American actor best known for his role as Greg Brady in the ABC television series The Brady Bunch.-Early life and career:...

     (born 1954), American actor (The Brady Bunch)
  • Bernard Williams
    Bernard Williams
    Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams was an English moral philosopher, described by The Times as the most brilliant and most important British moral philosopher of his time. His publications include Problems of the Self , Moral Luck , Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy , and Truth and Truthfulness...

    , English philosopher
  • Bernie Williams
    Bernie Williams
    Bernabé Williams Figueroa Jr. is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and Puerto Rican musician.-Early life:...

    , Puerto Rican pro baseball player
  • Billy Williams (left fielder), American baseball outfielder and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
  • Billy Dee Williams
    Billy Dee Williams
    William December "Billy Dee" Williams, Jr. is an American actor, artist, singer, and writer.-Early life:Williams was born in New York City, New York, the son of Loretta...

    , American actor
  • Blake Williams (basketball)
    Blake Williams (basketball)
    Blake Williams is a retired American basketball player. He won two national championships at Oklahoma A&M University and represented the U.S...

    , American basketball player
  • Brad Williams (cricketer), Australian cricketer
  • Brian Williams
    Brian Williams
    Brian Douglas Williams is the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network, a position he assumed in 2004...

    , American news reporter for NBC
  • Brian Williams (footballer)
    Brian Williams (footballer)
    Brian Williams is a former professional footballer who played in a total of 591 games for six different clubs in The Football League during an eighteen year career spanning the period from 1973 to 1991....

    , English footballer
  • Brian Williams (sportscaster)
    Brian Williams (sportscaster)
    Brian Williams is a Canadian sportscaster who is best known for his coverage of the Olympic Games.-Biography:Williams' father was a very successful doctor...

    , Canadian sportscaster
  • Bruce Williams
    Bruce Williams (disambiguation)
    Bruce Williams may refer to:*Bruce Williams , businessman and radio talk show host*Bruce Williams , Commodore in the Royal Navy*Bruce Williams , Australian rules footballer...

     (disambiguation)
  • Bryan Williams, Birdman (rapper), American rapper and record executive

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  • Carl Williams (criminal) (1970–2010), Australian criminal.
  • Carnell Williams
    Carnell Williams
    Carnell Lamar "Cadillac" Williams is an American football running back for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft...

     (born 1982), American football player
  • Charles Williams (disambiguation)
  • Christopher Williams (Welsh artist)
    Christopher Williams (Welsh artist)
    Christopher David Williams was a Welsh artist.He was born in Maesteg, Wales. His father Evan Williams intended him to be a doctor, but he disliked the idea. A visit to the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, in 1892, where he spent some hours in front of Frederick Leighton's "Perseus and Andromeda,"...

     (1873–1934)
  • Clarence Williams (disambiguation)
  • Clark Williams
    Clark Williams
    Myron Clark Williams was an American banker and politician.-Life:...

    , American banker and New York State Comptroller 1909-1910
  • Clayton Williams
    Clayton Williams
    Clayton Wheat "Claytie" Williams, Jr. , a businessman from Midland, Texas, was the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1990 against the Democratic State Treasurer Ann Richards even though Williams initially led in opinion polls by twenty points.-Biographical information:An independent...

    , Jr. (born 1931), American oilman; Republican gubernatorial nominee in Texas, 1990
  • Clayton W. Williams, Sr.
    Clayton W. Williams, Sr.
    Clayton Wheat Williams, Sr. , was an engineer, a geologist, an oilman, a World War I military officer, a rancher, a county commissioner and civic leader, an historian, and a philanthropist from Fort Stockton, Texas....

     (1895–1983), American oilman; historian; first registered geologist in the state of Texas
  • Cliff Williams
    Cliff Williams
    Clifford Williams is an English bassist and backing vocalist, who has been a member of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC since mid-1977. He had started his professional music career in 1967 and was previously in the British groups Home and Bandit. His first studio album with AC/DC was Powerage...

     (born 1949), English bassist for the Australian hard rock band AC/DC
  • Clive Williams
    Clive Williams
    Clive Williams is a former international rugby union player. He toured twice with the British and Irish Lions, to New Zealand in 1977 and to South Africa in 1980....

    , former Wales international rugby union player, Leeds
  • Craig Williams, an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Human Tornado
    Human Tornado
    Craig Williams , better known by his ring name, Human Tornado, is an American retired professional wrestler. His character was that of a stereotypical 1970s blaxploitation street pimp. He performed primarily on the Californian independent circuit, most prominently for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, the...

  • Craig E. Williams
    Craig E. Williams
    Craig E. Williams is an American Vietnam War veteran from Kentucky and co-founder of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. Williams was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2006 for his efforts on convincing The Pentagon to stop plans to incinerate decaying caches of chemical weapons...

    , American Vietnam War veteran and co-founder of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
  • Craig L. Williams, American LGBT rights activist, better known as Craig Hollywood
    Craig Hollywood
    Craig Hollywood is an American member of The International Imperial Court System . Born in Salem, Oregon, he was elected Mr. Gay Portland XXIII in 1998 and as Emperor of the Imperial Court of New York in 2007...


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  • Dafydd Williams
    Dafydd Williams
    Dafydd Rhys "Dave" Williams is a Canadian physician and a retired CSA astronaut. He had two spaceflights, both of which were Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight, STS-90 in 1998, was a 16-day mission aboard Space Shuttle Columbia dedicated to neuroscience research...

     (born 1954), Canadian astronaut
  • Daniel Williams (disambiguation)
    Daniel Williams (disambiguation)
    Daniel or Dan Williams may refer to:* Dan Williams , American baseball player* Dan Williams , American football defensive end...

  • Danny Williams (politician)
    Danny Williams (politician)
    Daniel E. "Danny" Williams, QC, MHA is a Canadian politician, businessman and lawyer who served as the ninth Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador between November 6, 2003, and December 3, 2010. Williams was born and raised in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador...

     (1949– ), premier of Newfoundland
  • Darrell Williams
    Darrell Williams
    Darrell Christopher Williams is a New Zealand rugby league selector and NRL judiciary member and a former footballer and coach.-Playing career:...

    , New Zealand rugby league footballer, coach and administrator
  • Darren Williams
    Darren Williams
    Darren Williams is an English footballer who is player-manager of Whitby Town.Williams began his career at York City, but made his name at Sunderland, for whom he signed in 1996. He moved to Cardiff City in 2004, then on Hartlepool United in 2005...

     (born 1977), English soccer player
  • Darrent Williams
    Darrent Williams
    Darrent Demarcus Williams was an American football player for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. Williams was also the owner and CEO of independent record label RYNO Entertainment in Fort Worth, Texas.-High school:Born and raised in Fort Worth, Williams attended O.D...

     (1982–2007), American football player
  • Darryl Williams (disambiguation)
  • Daryl Williams
    Daryl Williams
    Daryl Robert Williams AM QC , Australianpolitician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1993 to October 2004, representing the Division of Tangney, Western Australia.-Biography:...

     (born 1955), Australian politician
  • Dave Williams (1900s pitcher) (1881–1918), Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Dave Williams (musician)
    Dave Williams (musician)
    David W. "Dave" "Stage" Williams was the lead singer for the band Drowning Pool. He grew up in Princeton, Texas living with his parents Charles Edward and Jo-Ann Williams. During the 1990s he was a fixture in the Dallas music scene, often playing in well-known clubs. In 1999, he joined Drowning Pool...

     (1972–2002), American singer in the band Drowning Pool
  • Dave Tiger Williams
    Tiger Williams
    David James "Tiger" Williams is a former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League from 1974–75 to 1987–88. He is the NHL's career leader in penalty minutes.-NHL career:...

     (born 1954), Canadian hockey player
  • David Marshall Williams aka "Carbine Williams" (1900–1975), inventor of short-stroke gas piston for firearms
  • David Walliams
    David Walliams
    David Edward Walliams is an English comedian, writer and actor, known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the TV sketch show Little Britain and its predecessor Rock Profile...

     (born 1971), British comedian, original surname Williams
  • Deniece Williams
    Deniece Williams
    June Deniece Chandler known by her stage name Deniece Williams is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and record producer who achieved success in the 1970s and 1980s...

     (born 1951), American singer
  • Deron Williams
    Deron Williams
    Deron Michael Williams , nicknamed D-Will, is an American basketball player currently with the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association . Williams has also played for the Utah Jazz of the NBA and Beşiktaş of the Turkish Basketball League...

     (born 1984), NBA basketball player
  • Dominique Gallego Williams (born 1990), Chilean model
  • Doug Williams (American football) (born 1955), first African-American quarterback to lead a winning team in the Super Bowl

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  • Earl Williams (basketball player)
    Earl Williams (basketball player)
    Earl "the Twirl" Williams is an American-Israeli former basketball player.He attended Woodrow Wilson High School in Levittown, and then Winston-Salem State University...

    , "the Twirl", (born 1951) professional basketball player
  • Earl Williams (politician)
    Earl Williams (politician)
    Earl Michael Williams is the former Leader of the Opposition in Dominica and former Political Leader of the United Workers' Party.-Early life and career:...

    , lawyer and political leader in Dominica
  • Edward Bennett Williams
    Edward Bennett Williams
    Edward Bennett Williams was a Washington, D.C. trial attorney who founded the law firm of Williams & Connolly and owned several professional sports teams...

     (1920–1988), prominent American trial lawyer
  • Emlyn Williams
    Emlyn Williams
    George Emlyn Williams, CBE , known as Emlyn Williams, was a Welsh dramatist and actor.-Biography:He was born into a Welsh-speaking, working class family in Mostyn, Flintshire....

     (1905–1987), Welsh actor and dramatist
  • Emory Williams
    Emory Williams
    Emory Williams, Sr is an American businessman and former chairman and chief executive officer of the Sears Bank & Trust Company. Williams was born in Falco, Alabama, and grew up in Quitman, Mississippi. He was a member of the graduating class of 1932 from Emory University, where there is now a...

    , a Chicago businessman
  • Eric Williams
    Eric Williams
    Eric Eustace Williams served as the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian, and is widely regarded as "The Father of The Nation."...

     (1911–1981), Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
  • Eric A. Williams
    Eric A. Williams
    Eric A. Williams was until November, 2007 a Trinidad and Tobago politician and was Member of Parliament for Port of Spain South. Until his resignation from the Cabinet in January 2006, he served as the Minister of Energy and Energy Industries in the then People's National Movement government a...

    , Trinidad and Tobago politician
  • Esther Williams
    Esther Williams
    Esther Jane Williams is a retired American competitive swimmer and MGM movie star.Williams set multiple national and regional swimming records in her late teens as part of the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team...

    , movie star
  • Evan Williams (tenor)
    Evan Williams (tenor)
    Harry Evan Williams was an oratorio tenor with an exceptionally beautiful and tender voice. He recorded almost one hundred 78-RPM records on the Victor Red Seal label in the United States and His Masters Voice in England...

     (1867–1918), American singer

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  • Fara Williams
    Fara Williams
    Fara Tanya Franki Williams Merrett is an English football player. She is a central midfielder for England Women and Everton Ladies.A consistent goalscorer and set-piece specialist, Williams is considered one of England's leading players...

     (born 1984), English football player
  • Sir Frank Williams, founder and owner of the WilliamsF1 Formula One constructor
  • Sir Frederic Calland Williams
    Frederic Calland Williams
    Sir Frederic Calland Williams CBE, FRS , known as 'Freddie Williams', was an English engineer....

     (1911–1977), electrical engineer closely involved with the development of radar and early digital computers

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  • Gail Williams
    Gail Williams
    Gail Ann Williams has been the director of The WELL since 1998. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in the 1970s and got involved in political theater as both a creative and management member of the Plutonium Players troupe...

    , director of The WELL
  • Gardner F. Williams
    Gardner F. Williams
    Gardner F. Williams was an American mining engineer and author, and the first properly trained mining engineer to be appointed in South Africa.- Early life :...

    , American mining engineer and author
  • Gary Williams
    Gary Williams
    Gary B. Williams is an American university administrator and former college basketball coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Maryland, Ohio State University, Boston College, and American University. In 2002, he led Maryland to the NCAA Tournament Championship...

    , coach of the University of Maryland, College Park men's basketball team and 2002 national championship winner
  • George C. Williams
    George C. Williams
    Professor George Christopher Williams was an American evolutionary biologist.Williams was a professor emeritus of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was best known for his vigorous critique of group selection. The work of Williams in this area, along with W. D...

    , American biologist
  • Glyn Williams (footballer)
    Glyn Williams (footballer)
    Glyndwr James John "Glyn" Williams is a Welsh former professional footballer.-Career:Born in Maesteg, Williams began his career playing for Caerau as an amateur, helping them win the Welsh Amateur Cup in 1946 and, despite only having played a handful of games, following the return of the Football...

    , Welsh footballer
  • Grace Williams
    Grace Williams
    -Biography:Williams was born in Barry, near Cardiff, Wales.She was educated at Barry County School, and won a scholarship to Cardiff University . She then went to the Royal College of Music, London, where she was taught by Ralph Vaughan Williams...

    , Welsh composer
  • Guy Williams (1924–1989), American actor

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  • Hal Williams
    Hal Williams
    Harold "Hal" Williams is an American actor, best known for his recurring role as the black cop Officer Smith on Sanford and Son, and as the patriarch Lester Jenkins, the husband of Marla Gibbs's character, on 227....

    , actor
  • Hank Williams (1923–1953), country music singer and guitarist
  • Hank Williams, Jr.
    Hank Williams, Jr.
    Randall Hank Williams , better known as Hank Williams, Jr. and Bocephus, is an American country singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock, blues, and traditional country...

     (born 1949), country music singer and guitarist, son of Hank Williams
  • Hank Williams III
    Hank Williams III
    Shelton Hank Williams, known as Hank 3 , is a neotraditional country and punk metal singer, drummer, bassist, and guitarist. In addition to his honky tonk recordings, Williams' style alternates among country, punk and metal...

     (born 1972), country music singer and guitarist, son of Hank Williams, Jr.
  • Harland Williams
    Harland Williams
    Harland Williams is a Canadian actor, comedian, author, artist, musician and radio personality.-Personal life:Harland Reesor Williams was born on November 14, 1962, in Toronto, Ontario, to Lorraine , a social worker, and John Reesor Williams, who worked as a member of the Ontario Provincial...

    , Canadian-born comedian, actor, and radio personality
  • Hayley Williams
    Hayley Williams
    Hayley Nichole Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and the lead vocalist of the band Paramore.- Life and career :...

    , lead singer of the band Paramore
  • Henry Williams (Medal of Honor)
    Henry Williams (Medal of Honor)
    Henry Williams was a seaman first class serving in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor for bravery.-Biography:...

    , American Medal of Honor recipient
  • Henry Williams (missionary)
    Henry Williams (missionary)
    Henry Williams was one of the first missionaries who went to New Zealand in the first half of the 19th century....

    , English missionary to New Zealand, beginning in the 1820s
  • Henry Smith Williams
    Henry Smith Williams
    Henry Smith Williams was a medical doctor, lawyer, and author of a number of books on medicine, history, and science. He was born in 1863 and died in 1943.-Select works:*The Historians' History of the World *The Story of Modern Science*...

    , medical doctor, lawyer, and author of a number of books on medicine, history, and science

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  • Isiah Williams
    Isiah Williams
    Isiah John "Juice" Williams is an American football quarterback who is currently signed to the Chicago Slaughter of the Indoor Football League. He was undrafted in 2010...

    , American football player
  • Isiah Williams (basketball)
    Isiah Williams (basketball)
    Isiah Williams is an American college basketball player for Utah Valley University. Williams was the Great West Conference player of the year in 2011 and UVU's first division I All-American in basketball....

    , American basketball player

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  • Jack Williams (rugby player)
    Jack Williams (rugby player)
    John Frederick 'Jack' Williams was a Welsh international rugby union lock who played club rugby for London Welsh...

    , Welsh international rugby union player
  • James Williams (Delaware representative)
    James Williams (Delaware representative)
    James Williams was an American farmer and politician from Smyrna, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U. S. Representative from Delaware....

    , representative of the state of Delaware
    Delaware
    Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...

  • James Leighman Williams
    James Leighman Williams
    James Leighman Williams is an American fencer. On March 30, 2010, Williams announced his retirement from competitive fencing-College career:...

    , American fencer
  • Janet Williams
    Janet Williams
    Janet Williams is an American soprano who has won international critical acclaim for performances at the Metropolitan Opera, Berlin Staatsoper, Paris Opera, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opera de Lyon, Nice Opera, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Opera Geneva, Frankfurt Opera, Cologne Opera, Leipzig...

    , American operatic soprano and voice teacher
  • Jason Williams (basketball, born 1975), professional American basketball player
  • Jason Williams (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player with the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks
  • Jay Williams (basketball)
    Jay Williams (basketball)
    Jason David Williams , professionally known as Jay Williams, is a former American professional basketball player with the NBA Chicago Bulls. He last signed with the Austin Toros of the NBA Development League, but was waived by the Toros on December 30, 2006 to rehabilitate a nagging injury...

     (born 1981), American sportscaster and former basketball player
  • Jayson Williams
    Jayson Williams
    Jayson Williams is an American former professional basketball player. Standing 6 feet, 10 inches tall, he played for the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association. In 2010, he pled guilty to assault in the shooting death of a limousine driver...

     (born 1968), American former basketball player
  • Jeff Williams (baseball), Australian-born professional baseball player
  • Jeff Williams (poker player)
    Jeff Williams (poker player)
    Jeff Williams is an American poker player from Dunwoody, Georgia. He graduated from Dunwoody High and University of Georgia....

    , American poker player
  • Jeffrey Williams (astronaut), American astronaut
  • Jeremy Williams (actor)
    Jeremy Williams (Actor)
    Jeremy David Williams is a British film, radio, television and theatre actor.-Life and career:Williams was born in Birmingham, England and educated at King Edward VI Five Ways school...

     (born 1982), British actor
  • Jody Williams
    Jody Williams
    Jody Williams is an American teacher and aid worker who received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the campaign she worked for, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines...

    , American teacher, recipient of 1997 Nobel Peace Prize
  • Joe Williams (jazz singer)
    Joe Williams (jazz singer)
    Joe Williams was a well-known jazz vocalist, a baritone singing a mixture of blues, ballads, popular songs, and jazz standards.-Early life:...

     (1918–1999)
  • John Williams
    John Williams
    John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...

    , American composer

  • Jonathan Williams (disambiguation)
  • Joseph Williams
    Joseph Williams
    Joseph Stanley Williams , is an American rock singer and film score composer best known for his work in the rock band Toto...

     (disambiguation page)
  • J.Williams, New Zealand R&B singer
  • Joy Williams (Australian writer)
    Joy Williams (Australian writer)
    Joy Williams was an Aboriginal Australian author of poetry....

    , Australian author of poetry
  • Joy Williams (singer), Christian music singer and songwriter
  • Joy Williams (American writer), American author of fiction
  • Juan Williams
    Juan Williams
    Juan Williams is an American journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel, he was born in Panama on April 10, 1954. He also writes for several newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal and has been published in magazines such as The Atlantic...

    , journalist
  • Justin Williams
    Justin Williams
    Justin Williams is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who currently plays for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League...

    , Canadian ice hockey player currently with the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes
  • J. Williams, president of the American Physical Society
    American Physical Society
    The American Physical Society is the world's second largest organization of physicists, behind the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The Society publishes more than a dozen scientific journals, including the world renowned Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than 20...

     in 1963

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  • Keller Williams
    Keller Williams
    Keller Williams is an American musician from Fredericksburg, Virginia, who began performing in the early 1990s. He is also known by the names K-Dub or just Keller, when performing. Williams' music combines elements of bluegrass, folk, alternative rock, reggae, electronica/dance, jazz, funk, and...

    , folk/jam-band musician residing in Fredericksburg, Virginia
  • Kelvin Williams
    Kelvin Williams
    Kelvin Claudius Williams is a former cricketer and current head coach of Trinidad and Tobago, a team he represented throughout his playing career.-References:...

    , cricketer
  • Kenneth L. Williams
    Kenneth L. Williams
    Kenneth Lee Williams is a herpetologist and author of books on the subject of snake biology and classification. Williams retired from teaching in the Biology department of Northwestern State University and received emeritus status in 2001...

    , herpetologist
  • Kenneth Williams
    Kenneth Williams
    Kenneth Charles Williams was an English comic actor and comedian. He was one of the main ensemble in 26 of the Carry On films, and appeared in numerous British television shows, and radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne.-Life and career:Kenneth Charles Williams was born on 22 February...

    , TV and movie actor
  • Kent Williams
    Kent Williams (actor)
    Kent Williams is an American actor.Williams was born in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York. He studied music and theatre at the State University of New York at Oswego, where he graduated in the class of 1973. He is known for his role as an Assistant District Attorney and, later, Special...

    , American actor and voice actor
  • Kiely Williams
    Kiely Williams
    Kiely Alexis Williams is an American singer, actress, songwriter and dancer. She is best known for being a member of former girl groups 3LW and The Cheetah Girls.-1999-2006: 3LW:...

    , American singer/actress, Member of girl group The Cheetah Girls and 3LW
    3LW
    3LW was an American hip hop soul and R&B girl group that enjoyed a number of modest hits during the early 2000s. Its founding members were Naturi Naughton, Adrienne Bailon, and Kiely Williams. Jessica Benson later replaced Naughton after she left the group in 2002...


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  • Lawrence G. Williams
    Lawrence G. Williams
    Lawrence Gordon Williams was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 7th district of Pennsylvania....

     (1913–1975), US congressman from Pennsylvania
  • Leon Jay Williams (1976–), Singaporean singer and actor in Taiwanese dramas
  • Lucinda Williams
    Lucinda Williams
    Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public. In 1988, she released her self-titled album,...

     (1953–), American rock, folk, and country music singer and songwriter
  • Lucinda Williams (athlete)
    Lucinda Williams (athlete)
    Lucinda Williams Adams is an American athlete, who mainly competed in the 100 meters. She competed for the United States in the 4 x 100 m relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy, where she won the gold medal with her team mates Martha Hudson, Barbara Jones and Olympic 100 and 200...

     (1937-), American runner

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  • Madieu Williams
    Madieu Williams
    Madieu Mohammed Williams is an American football safety for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the second round of the 2004 NFL Draft...

    , American football player
  • Marcus Williams (basketball, born 1985), American basketball player
  • Marcus Williams (basketball, born 1986), American basketball player
  • Mario Williams
    Mario Williams
    Mario Jerrel Williams is an American football defensive end for the Houston Texans of the National Football League. He was selected first overall by the Texans in the 2006 NFL Draft...

    , professional American football player and former number one overall draft pick
  • Mark Williams (snooker player)
    Mark Williams (snooker player)
    Mark James Williams, MBE is a Welsh professional snooker player who has been World Champion twice, in 2000 and 2003. Often noted for his single-ball potting, he has earned the nickname, The Welsh Potting Machine...

  • Matt Williams (third baseman) (born 1965), Major League Baseball player
  • Michael Williams
    Michael Williams (disambiguation)
    -Politics:*Michael Williams , MP for West Cornwall and owner of Caerhays castle*Michael Williams , acting President of Trinidad and Tobago, 1987*Michael L. Williams , Texas Railroad Commissioner; candidate for U.S. Senate...

     (disambiguation)
  • Michelle Williams (actress)
    Michelle Williams (actress)
    Michelle Ingrid Williams is an American actress. After starting her career with television guest appearances in the early 1990s, Williams achieved recognition for her role as Jen Lindley on the WB television teen drama Dawson's Creek, which she played from 1998 to 2003...

    , American actress
  • Michelle Williams (singer)
    Michelle Williams (singer)
    Tenitra Michelle Williams , commonly known as Michelle Williams, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress...

    , American gospel/pop/R&B singer, actress, member of group Destiny's Child
  • Midge Williams
    Midge Williams
    Midge Williams was an African American swing and jazz vocalist during the 1930s and 1940s. Although not as famous as other jazz recording artists, Williams was a respected singer and her group, Midge Williams and Her Jazz Jesters, made several well-received recordings during the late 1930s.-Early...

    , American jazz vocalist
  • Mitch Williams (baseball), known as "Wild Thing", Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Mo Williams
    Mo Williams
    Maurice "Mo" Williams is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association...

    , American basketball player
  • Morgan Williams (disambiguation), various people (refer to disambiguation page)

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  • Nicholas Williams
    Nicholas Williams
    Nicholas Jonathan Anselm Williams , writing as Nicholas Williams or sometimes N.J.A...

     (born 1942), English linguist and expert on the Cornish language
  • Nick Williams
    Nick Williams
    Nick Williams is a rugby union player who played for Munster in the Magners League and Heineken Cup for 2 seasons. Williams won 19 caps for Munster and scored 4 tries, including a hat-trick against the Newport Gwent Dragons. He previously played for North Harbour in the Air New Zealand Cup and for...

     (born 1983), New Zealand rugby football player
  • Nick Luchey
    Nick Luchey
    James Nicolas "Nick" Luchey is a former American football fullback in the National Football League. Luchey was drafted in the fifth round of the 1999 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals out of the University of Miami...

     (born 1977), American football player originally named Nick Williams

O

  • Otis Williams
    Otis Williams
    Otis Williams is an American baritone singer. Nicknamed "Big Daddy", he has also acted as a sporadic songwriter and record producer. Williams co-founded the Motown vocal group The Temptations in early 1960 as The Elgins, a group in which he continues to perform...

    , American singer and member of The Temptations
  • Olivia Williams
    Olivia Williams
    Olivia Haigh Williams is an English film, stage and television actress who has appeared in British and American films and television series.-Early life:Williams was born in Camden Town, London, England...

    , British Actress (Dollhouse, The heart of me, Born Romantic)

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  • Patrick Williams (disambiguation)
  • Paul Williams (disambiguation)
  • Percy Williams
    Percy Williams
    Percy Alfred Williams, OC was a Canadian athlete, winner of the 100 m and 200 m races at the 1928 Summer Olympics.- Biography :Williams was born in Vancouver and he died in Vancouver....

  • Peter Francis Williams
    Peter Francis Williams
    Peter Francis Williams is an amateur astronomer from New South Wales, Australia. He specializes in early detection of declines in R Coronae Borealis-type stars and the long-term monitoring of several southern Mira variables and eclipsing binary stars. He was the first person who detected the...

    , Australian amateur astronomer
  • Petey Williams
    Petey Williams
    Peter "Petey" Williams III is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is a two time X Division Champion and a former captain of Team Canada. Williams Currently Wrestles for Lucha Libre USA...

    , professional wrestler
  • Pharrell Williams
    Pharrell Williams
    Pharrell Williams , commonly known simply as Pharrell, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, composer, and fashion designer. Williams and Chad Hugo make up the record production duo The Neptunes, producing hip hop and R&B music...

    , American rapper/producer
  • Phil Williams (footballer)
    Phil Williams (footballer)
    Philip "Phil" Williams is a former English footballer.A product of Chester's youth policy, Williams made a solitary appearance in The Football League for the club when wearing the number nine shirt during a 0–0 draw at home to Preston North End on September 11, 1976.He did not make any further...

    , former Chester City player
  • Phil Williams (politician), Welsh politician and space scientist
  • Pip Williams
    Pip Williams
    Pip Williams, is a record producer, arranger and guitarist, best known for producing albums for Status Quo and The Moody Blues.-Career:...

    , record producer

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  • R. Norris Williams
    R. Norris Williams
    Richard "Dick" Norris Williams II , generally known as R. Norris Williams, was an American male tennis player.-Biography:He was born in Geneva, Switzerland....

    , American tennis player
  • Rachel Williams
    Rachel Williams
    Rachel Williams is an American model, actress, and TV presenter now living in the United Kingdom.- Biography :Her father Tod Williams and stepmother Billie Tsien are architects in the Manhattan firm Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, well known for their American Folk Art Museum, which many...

    , model
  • Ralph Williams (cricketer)
    Ralph Williams (cricketer)
    Ralph Augustin Williams was an English cricketer and barrister. Williams was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Caversham, Berkshire....

    , English cricket and barrister
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...

    , British composer
  • Raymond Williams
    Raymond Williams
    Raymond Henry Williams was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature are a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts...

    , Welsh man of letters
  • Rhydwen Williams
    Rhydwen Williams
    Robert Rhydwenfro Williams, known as Rhydwen Williams , was a Welsh poet, novelist and Baptist minister. His work is mainly written in his native Welsh language, and is noted for adapting the established style and context of Welsh poetry from a rural and bygone age to that of a modern industrial...

    , Welsh poet, novelist, editor, minister and television presenter
  • Richard Williams (tennis)
    Richard Williams (tennis)
    Richard Williams is an American tennis coach, and the father of Venus and Serena Williams.-Biography:Williams is one of six children and only son of single mother Julia Mae Williams. He has been known to exaggerate aspects of his upbringing. A childhood friend told Sports Illustrated writer L...

    , American tennis coach
  • Ricky Williams
    Ricky Williams
    Errick Lynne "Ricky" Williams, Jr. is an American football running back for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints fifth overall in the 1999 NFL Draft...

    , American football player
  • Robbie Williams
    Robbie Williams
    Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams...

    , British singer
  • Robert Williams (disambiguation)
  • Robley C. Williams
    Robley C. Williams
    Robley Cook Williams was an early biophysicist and virologist. He served as the first President of the Biophysical Society.-Career:...

    , American biophysicist
  • Robin Williams
    Robin Williams
    Robin McLaurin Williams is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance...

    , TV and movie actor
  • Robin Williams (writer)
    Robin Williams (writer)
    Robin Patricia Williams is an American educator who has authored many popular computer-related books, as well as the book Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare? Among her computer books are manuals of style The Mac is Not a Typewriter and The Non-Designer's Design Book, as well as...

    , writer
  • Roger Williams (disambiguation)
  • Roley Williams
    Roley Williams
    Donald Roland "Roley" Williams is a former Welsh professional footballer.Williams was playing Welsh league football for Milford United when he was spotted by Cardiff City manager Cyril Spiers. A number of clubs were interested at the time, including his home town club Swansea Town, but he signed a...

    , Welsh footballer
  • Rowan Williams
    Rowan Williams
    Rowan Douglas Williams FRSL, FBA, FLSW is an Anglican bishop, poet and theologian. He is the 104th and current Archbishop of Canterbury, Metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury and Primate of All England, offices he has held since early 2003.Williams was previously Bishop of Monmouth and...

    , Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Roy Williams (coach)
    Roy Williams (coach)
    Roy Williams is head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of North Carolina. After averaging nearly an 80% win percentage in 15 seasons at the University of Kansas, he became the eighteenth head coach at North Carolina when he replaced Matt Doherty in 2003...

    , head basketball coach of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels
  • Roy Williams (safety)
    Roy Williams (safety)
    Roy Lee Williams is a retired American football safety. He played college football at Oklahoma before he was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys eighth overall in the 2002 NFL Draft. He spent seven seasons with the Cowboys and earned five straight Pro Bowl selections from 2003–2007...

    , American football player
  • Roy Williams (wide receiver)
    Roy Williams (wide receiver)
    Roy Eugene Williams, Jr. is an American football wide receiver who is currently a member of the Chicago Bears. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions seventh overall in the 2004 NFL Draft...

    , American football player
  • Rozz Williams
    Rozz Williams
    Rozz Williams was an American vocalist and musician of several varieties, most famous for fronting the band Christian Death, then later Shadow Project with musician Eva O, though his main project throughout his career was the industrial, Premature Ejaculation...

    , American rock vocalist
  • Russell Williams (disambiguation)
  • Ryan Williams, footballer

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  • Sarah-Rose Williams, New York City Ballet dancer
  • Scott Williams (disambiguation)
  • Serena Williams
    Serena Williams
    Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her world no. 1 in singles on five separate occasions. She became the world no. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002 and regained this ranking for the fifth time on...

     (born 1981), US pro tennis player and sister of Venus Williams
  • Shane Williams
    Shane Williams
    Shane Mark Williams is a Welsh international rugby union player who plays as a wing for the Ospreys and who can also play scrum-half. Williams is the record try scorer for the Wales national team and he is third on the international list of leading Rugby union Test try scorers behind Daisuke Ohata...

     (born 1977), Welsh rugby union player
  • Shelden Williams
    Shelden Williams
    Shelden DeMar Williams is an American professional basketball player who last played for the New York Knicks...

     (born 1983), US pro basketball player
  • Shellene Williams
    Shellene Williams
    Shellene Williams is a retired female track and field sprinter from Jamaica. She specialized in the 200 metres and the 400 metres. Her personal best time in the women's 200 metres was 23.50 seconds, achieved on May 1, 2004 in Iowa City, Iowa...

     (born 1981), Jamaican track and field sprinter
  • Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby
    Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby
    Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby PC is a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister, she was one of the "Gang of Four" rebels who founded the Social Democratic Party in 1981...

    , United Kingdom politician
  • Sonny Bill Williams
    Sonny Bill Williams
    Sonny William 'Sonny Bill' Williams is a New Zealand rugby union player and former rugby league player. He is only the second person to represent New Zealand in rugby union after first playing for the country in rugby league. In rugby union he usually plays as a centre...

     (born 1985), New Zealand rugby league and rugby union player
  • Stanley Williams
    Stanley Williams
    Stanley Tookie Williams III was the co-founder of the Crips, a notorious American street gang which had its roots in South Central Los Angeles in 1969. In 1979 he was convicted of four murders committed in the course of robberies, sentenced to death, and eventually executed...

     (1953–2005), early leader of the Crips
  • Stanley Williams (rugby player)
    Stanley Williams (rugby player)
    Stanley Williams DSO was a Welsh rugby union fullback who played club rugby for Newport. He won five caps for England and was selected for the British Lions 1910 tour of South Africa, in which he played in all three test games....

    , England and British Lions rugby player
  • Steve Williams (disambiguation)
  • Steven Williams
    Steven Williams
    Steven Williams is an American actor of films and television.Williams was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Chicago. He is known for his role as Captain Adam Fuller on the Fox Network's hit TV series 21 Jump Street from 1987-91.He played Lt. Burnett on the CBS drama series The Equalizer in...

    , actor
  • Stuart Williams (disambiguation)
  • Susan May Williams
    Susan May Williams
    Susan May Williams was the daughter of Benjamin Williams, a prominent Baltimore merchant originally from Roxbury, Massachusetts, and his wife, Sarah Copeland, widow of Nathaniel Morton...

    , American wife of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte

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  • Tad Williams
    Tad Williams
    Robert Paul "Tad" Williams, born in San Jose, California, is the author of several fantasy and science fiction novels, including Tailchaser's Song, the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, the Otherland series, and The War of the Flowers....

    , fantasy and science fiction writer
  • Ted Williams
    Ted Williams
    Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 21-year Major League Baseball career as the left fielder for the Boston Red Sox...

     (1918–2002), Hall-of-Fame pro baseball player for the Boston Red Sox
  • Tennessee Williams
    Tennessee Williams
    Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...

     (1911–1983), American playwright
  • Terrick Williams
    Terrick Williams
    John Terrick Williams was better known as Terrick Williams. He was a British painter who was a member of the Royal Academy. During his lifetime, Williams became one of the most successful painters in London....

    , British painter
  • Thomas Williams (disambiguation)
  • Tod Williams (filmmaker)
    Tod Williams (filmmaker)
    Tod Culpan "Kip" Williams is an American director, producer and screenwriter.-Life and career:Williams was born and raised in New York City, the son of architect Tod Williams and a mother who was a dancer...

     ("Kip" Williams, b. 1968), film director and screenwriter
  • Todd Williams (athlete)
    Todd Williams (athlete)
    Todd Williams is a retired long-distance runner from the United States, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. He was a two-time United States cross country champion, with victories in 1991 and 1993...

     (born 1969), American long-distance runner
  • Tom Williams (disambiguation)
  • Tony Williams (1945–1997), American jazz drummer
  • Tonya Lee Williams
    Tonya Lee Williams
    Tonya Lee Williams is a Canadian actress, best known for her role as Dr. Olivia Barber Winters on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless, from 1990 to 2005, and for a brief time in 2007. She returned to the series in the fall of 2008.-Early life:Williams was born in London, England to...

    , Canadian actress

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  • Vanessa L. Williams
    Vanessa L. Williams
    Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American pop-R&B recording artist, producer, dancer, model, actress and showgirl. In 1983, she became the first woman of African-American descent to be crowned Miss America, but a scandal generated by her having posed for nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine...

     (born 1963), singer, actress, and Miss America
  • Venus Williams
    Venus Williams
    Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 101 as of 10 October 2011 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles as of 2011. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association on three separate...

     (born 1980), pro tennis player and sister of Serena Williams
  • Victoria Williams
    Victoria Williams
    Victoria Williams is an American singer-songwriter and musician, originally from Shreveport, Louisiana, although she has resided in Southern California throughout her musical career. She is noted for her descriptive songwriting talent, which she has used to immerse the listener of her songs into a...

     (born 1958), singer/songwriter
  • Veronica Williams
    Veronica Williams
    -Honours:With Brisbane Roar: W-League Premiership: 2008-09 W-League Championship: 2008-09...


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  • Waldo Williams
    Waldo Williams
    Waldo Williams was one of the leading Welsh language poets of the twentieth century. He was also a notable pacifist, anti-war campaigner, and Welsh nationalist.-Life:...

     (1904–1971), Welsh poet
  • Walt Williams
    Walt Williams
    Walter Ander Williams is a retired American professional basketball player. A sharpshooting 6'8" forward/guard, Williams attended school at the University of Maryland from 1988 to 1992, and is credited by many for resurrecting the school's basketball program which was going through very...

     (born 1970), American basketball player
  • Walt Williams (baseball)
    Walt Williams (baseball)
    Walter Allen Williams is a former American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder for the Houston Colt .45s , Chicago White Sox , Cleveland Indians , and the New York Yankees .-Early life:Williams was nicknamed No-Neck due to his relatively short stature...

     (born 1943), Major League Baseball outfielder
  • Walter Williams (disambiguation)
  • Warren Williams
    Warren Williams (disambiguation)
    Warren Williams may refer to:* Warren Williams , American football player* Butch Williams , American ice hockey player* Warren H Williams , Australian country music singer and songwriter...

     (disambiguation)
  • Wayne Williams
    Wayne Williams
    Wayne Bertram Williams is an American serial killer who committed most of the Atlanta Child Murders that occurred in 1979 through 1981. In January 1982, Williams was found guilty of the murder of two adult men...

    , imprisoned serial murderer
  • Wendy O. Williams
    Wendy O. Williams
    Wendy Orlean Williams , better known as Wendy O. Williams, was the lead singer for the American punk band the Plasmatics, as well as a solo artist...

     (1949–1998), American musician
  • William Williams (disambiguation)
  • William Carlos Williams
    William Carlos Williams
    William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine, having graduated from the University of Pennsylvania...

     (1883-1963), American poet
  • Willie L. Williams
    Willie L. Williams
    Willie L. Williams was chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1992 to 1997, taking over after chief Daryl Gates' resignation following the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Williams was the first African-American police commissioner of both the Philadelphia Police Department and the LAPD...

    , police department chief in Philadelphia and Los Angeles
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