William

• William I of England
  William I of England
  William I , better known as William the Conqueror, was Duke of Normandy from AD 1035 and King of England from late 1066 to his death. William is sometimes also referred to as "William II" in relation to his position as the second Duke of Normandy of that name...
  
   (1027-1087), aka William the Conqueror, William the Bastard
• William II of England
  William II of England
  William II , the third son of William I "the Conqueror" of England, was King of England from 1087 until 1100, with powers also over Normandy, and influence in Scotland. He was less successful in extending control into Wales...
  
   (1056-1100), aka William Rufus
• William I of Scotland
  William I of Scotland
  William I , known as the Lion or Garbh, "the Rough", reigned as King of Scots from 1165 to 1214. His reign was the second longest in Scottish history before the Act of Union with England in 1707,...
  
   (c. 1142-1214), aka William the Lion
• William IX, Count of Poitiers (1153-1156), first son of Henry II of England
• William III of England
  William III of England
  William III was a sovereign Prince of Orange by birth. From 1672 he governed as Stadtholder William III of Orange over Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic. From 1689 he reigned as William III over England and Ireland, and as William II over Scotland...
  
   (1650-1702), also William II of Scotland, aka William of Orange
• William IV of the United Kingdom
  William IV of the United Kingdom
  William IV was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death on 20 June 1837...
  
   (1765-1837)
• Prince William of Wales
  Prince William of Wales
  Prince William of Wales , KG, is the elder son of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and the late Diana, Princess of Wales, and grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
  
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British

• William I of England
  William I of England
  William I , better known as William the Conqueror, was Duke of Normandy from AD 1035 and King of England from late 1066 to his death. William is sometimes also referred to as "William II" in relation to his position as the second Duke of Normandy of that name...
  
   (1027-1087), aka William the Conqueror, William the Bastard
• William II of England
  William II of England
  William II , the third son of William I "the Conqueror" of England, was King of England from 1087 until 1100, with powers also over Normandy, and influence in Scotland. He was less successful in extending control into Wales...
  
   (1056-1100), aka William Rufus
• William I of Scotland
  William I of Scotland
  William I , known as the Lion or Garbh, "the Rough", reigned as King of Scots from 1165 to 1214. His reign was the second longest in Scottish history before the Act of Union with England in 1707,...
  
   (c. 1142-1214), aka William the Lion
• William IX, Count of Poitiers (1153-1156), first son of Henry II of England
• William III of England
  William III of England
  William III was a sovereign Prince of Orange by birth. From 1672 he governed as Stadtholder William III of Orange over Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic. From 1689 he reigned as William III over England and Ireland, and as William II over Scotland...
  
   (1650-1702), also William II of Scotland, aka William of Orange
• William IV of the United Kingdom
  William IV of the United Kingdom
  William IV was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death on 20 June 1837...
  
   (1765-1837)
• Prince William of Wales
  Prince William of Wales
  Prince William of Wales , KG, is the elder son of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and the late Diana, Princess of Wales, and grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
  
   (b. 1982), son of Charles, Prince of Wales

French

• William of Gellone
  William of Gellone
  Saint William of Gellone was the second Count of Toulouse from 790 until his replacement in 811. His Occitan name is Guilhem, and he is known in French as Guillaume d'Orange, Guillaume Fierabrace, and the Marquis au court nez.He is the hero of the Chanson de Guillaume, an early chanson de geste,...
  
   (c.755-814), Count of Toulouse, canonized a saint
• William II, Prince of Orange
  William II, Prince of Orange
  William II, Prince of Orange was sovereign Prince of Orange and stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 14 March 1647 until his death....
  
   (1626-1650)
• William IV, Prince of Orange
  William IV, Prince of Orange
  William IV, Prince of Orange and Nassau-Dietz was the first hereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands....
  
   (1711-1751)
• William V, Prince of Orange
  William V, Prince of Orange
  William V Batavus, Prince of Orange and Nassau-Dietz was the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, and between 1795 and 1806 he led the Government of the Dutch Republic in Exile in London. He was succeeded by his son William I.-Earliest years:...
  
   (1748-1806)

The Netherlands

• William I, Count of Holland
  William I, Count of Holland
  William I , Count of Holland from 1203 to 1222. He was the younger son of Floris III and Ada of Scotland.-Life:...
  
   (1167-1222)
• William II of Holland (1228-1256), also King of Germany
• William I, Prince of Orange (1533-1584), a.k.a. William the Silent
• William I of the Netherlands
  William I of the Netherlands
  William I Frederick, born Willem Frederik Prins van Oranje-Nassau , was a Prince of Orange and the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg....
  
   (1772-1843)
• William II of the Netherlands
  William II of the Netherlands
  William II was King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Duke of Limburg from 7 October 1840 until his death.-Early life and education:...
  
   (1792-1849)
• William III of the Netherlands
  William III of the Netherlands
  William III was from 1849 King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg until his death and the Duke of Limburg until the abolition of the Duchy in 1866.-Early life:William was born in Brussels as son of William II of...
  
   (1817-1890)

Sicily

• William I of Sicily
  William I of Sicily
  William I , called the Bad or the Wicked, was the second king of Sicily, ruling from his father's death in 1154 to his own. He was the fourth son of Roger II and Elvira of Castile...
  
   (1131-1166), a.k.a. William the Bad or William the Wicked
• William II of Sicily
  William II of Sicily
  William II , called the Good, was king of Sicily from 1166 to 1189.William was only eleven years old at the death of his father William I, when he was placed under the regency of his mother, Margaret of Navarre...
  
   (1155-1189), a.k.a. William the Good
• William III of Sicily
  William III of Sicily
  William III was briefly king of Sicily for 10 months in 1194.He was the second son of King Tancred of Sicily and Sibylla of Acerra. At the age of four, shortly after the death of first his older brother Roger V, Duke of Apulia, and then a few weeks later of his father the king , William was...
  
   (1190-1198)

Cameroon

• William I of Bimbia
  William I of Bimbia
  William I of Bimbia, born Bile, was the chief and king of the Isubu ethnic group, who lived in Bimbia on the coast of Cameroon in the mid-to-late 1800s. British traders recognised the sovereignty of William's Bimbia and titled him "king". William sold land to the British missionary Alfred Saker to...
  
  , 19th century king of the Isubu people
• William II of Bimbia (d. 1882), king of the Isubu people

Other royalty

• William II of Villehardouin
  William II of Villehardouin
  William II of Villehardouin, was the last Villehardouin prince of Achaea and ruled the principality at the height of its power and influence.William was the son of Geoffrey I Villehardouin...
  
   (d. 1278), Prince of Achaea
• William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1852-1912)
• William, Prince of Albania (1876-1945)

British

• William de Corbeil
  William de Corbeil
  William de Corbeil or William of Corbeil was a medieval archbishop of Canterbury. Educated as a theologian, he taught briefly after finishing his education. He then served the bishops of Durham and London as a clerk before becoming a canon, a priest living a communal life...
  
   (c.1070-1136), Archbishop of Canterbury
• William of Malmesbury
  William of Malmesbury
  William of Malmesbury , English historian of the 12th century, was born about the year 1080/1095, in Wiltshire. His father was Norman and his mother English...
  
   (c.1080-c.1143), English historian and monk
• William of Tyre
  William of Tyre
  William of Tyre was Archbishop of Tyre and a chronicler of the Crusades and the Middle Ages. He is also known as William II to distinguish him from William of Malines, the first Archbishop of Tyre by that name...
  
   (c.1130-1185), Archbishop of Tyre, chronicler of the Crusades
• William of Norwich
  William of Norwich
  Saint William of Norwich was an English boy whose violent death was attributed to the entire Jewish community of Norwich...
  
   (c.1132-1144), saint and martyr
• William of York (d.1154), Archbishop of York and saint
• William of Ramsey
  William of Ramsey
  William of Ramsey was a 13th Century English Benedictine monk of Croyland Abbey . He was born at Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, and wrote lives of saints, some of which are in verse....
  
  , 13th century monk and hagiographer
• William of Ockham
  William of Ockham
  William of Ockham was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, from Ockham, a small village in Surrey, near East Horsley...
  
   (c.1288-c.1348), English friar and philosopher, originator of Occam's Razor
• William of Wykeham
  William of Wykeham
  William of Wykeham was Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England, founder of Winchester College, New College, Oxford, New College School, Oxford, and builder of a large part of Windsor Castle.-Life:...
  
   (1320-1404), Bishop of Winchester, founder of Winchester College and New College, Oxford

French

• William I, Duke of Normandy (r. 927–942), second Duke of Normandy
• William of Poitiers
  William of Poitiers
  William of Poitiers , Norman chronicler, was born in Les Préaux, near Pont-Audemer, and belonged to an influential Norman family...
  
   (c.1020-1090), Norman chronicler, chaplain to William the Conqueror
• William de St-Calais (d. 1096), a.k.a. William of St. Carilef, Norman abbot, Bishop of Durham
• William of Champeaux
  William of Champeaux
  Guillaume de Champeaux , also known as William of Champeaux or Guglielmus de Campellis , was a French philosopher and theologian.He was born at Champeaux near Melun...
  
   (1070-1121), French philosopher and theologian
• William of Conches
  William of Conches
  William of Conches was a French scholastic philosopher who sought to expand the bounds of Christian humanism by studying secular works of the classics and fostering empirical science...
  
   (c.1090-c.1154), French scholastic philosopher, tutor of Henry II of England
• William of Donjeon
  William of Donjeon
  Saint William of Donjeon, also referred to as St William of Bourges and St William the Confessor was Archbishop of Bourges from 1200 until 1209. As William Berruyer , he was a descendant of the family of the ancient Counts of Nevers. He was educated under the care of Peter, Archdeacon of Soissons,...
  
   (c.1155-1209), a.k.a. St. William of Bourges and St. William the Confessor, French archbishop
• William the Clerk
  William the Clerk
  William the Clerk was an Old French poet who names himself at the end of his only known work: the Arthurian Roman de Fergus, a parody of the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, notably Perceval, the Story of the Grail....
  
   13th century Scoto-Norman poet, writer of the Old French Roman de Fergus
• William the Clerk of Normandy
  William the Clerk of Normandy
  William the Clerk of Normandy was a Norman cleric and Old French poet. He is not the same person as the Scoto-Norman poet William the Clerk, who wrote the Roman de Fergus, sometimes wrongly attributed to the Norman....
  
  , 13th century Norman cleric and Old French poet
• William of Auxerre
  William of Auxerre
  William of Auxere was a French scholastic theologian and official in the Roman Catholic Church.The teacher by whom William was most influenced was Praepositinus, or Prevostin, of Cremona, Chancellor of the University of Paris from 1206 to 1209...
  
   (d. 1231), French theologian

Others

• William, Archbishop of Mainz
  William, Archbishop of Mainz
  William was Archbishop of Mainz from 17 December 954 until his death. He was the son of the Emperor Otto I the Great and a Slav mother....
  
   (929-968), German bishop, son of Emperor Otto the Great
• William of St-Thierry
  William of St-Thierry
  William of St-Thierry was a theologian and mystic, so called from the monastery of which he was abbot.-Biography:He was born at Liège of a noble family between 1075 and 1080 and died at Signy in 1148...
  
   (c.1085-1148), theologian and mystic, abbot of St. Thierry
• William of Moerbeke
  William of Moerbeke
  Willem van Moerbeke, known in the English speaking world as William of Moerbeke was a prolific medieval translator of philosophical, medical, and scientific texts from Greek into Latin...
  
   (1215-1286), Flemish bishop, translator of philosophical, medical, and scientific texts

Other contemporary people

• will.i.am
  Will.i.am
  William James Adams, Jr. , better known by his stage name will.i.am , is an American rapper, songwriter, singer, actor, and producer...
  
  , American musician, member of the Black Eyed Peas
• William
  William (Vilavancode MLA)
  William was an India politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly. He was elected twice to Travancore-Cochin assembly and three times to Madras State assembly....
  
  , India
  India
  India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal...
  
  n politician - Vilavancode
  Vilavancode
  Vilavancode is a panchayat town in Kanniyakumari district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.-Politics:Vilavancode assembly constituency is part of Kanyakumari Lok Sabha constituency....
  
   MLA.

Fictional characters

• William Brown (fictional boy), main character of the Just William novel series
• Baby William, son of Dana Scully in the American television and movie series, The X-Files
• William Zilla (Often shortened to Willy), the main protagonist in the cartoon My Dad The Rock Star
  My Dad the Rock Star
  My Dad the Rock Star is an animated television series created by KISS member Gene Simmons, and produced by Canadian company Nelvana. The show is about William "Willy" Zilla, a 14-year old boy just trying to be normal despite being the son of Rock Zilla, a flamboyant musician...
  
  
• William Dunbar, secondary character in Code Lyoko
• William "Stuttering Bill" Denbrough, fictional character in Stephen King's It, leader of the Looser's Club.