Famous People Named William
William R. Cotter
Politician, Congressman from Connecticut, 1971-81
William D. Coolidge
Physicist, Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes
William Conrad
Actor, Jake and the Fatman
William Congreve
Playwright, The Way of the World
William W. Colville
Business, General Counsel at Owens Corning, 1984-94
William Colgate
Business, Toothpaste empirebuilder
William A. Coley
Business, CEO of British Energy
William T. Coleman, Jr.
Government, US Secretary of Transportation, 1975-77
William T. Coleman III
Business, CEO of BEA Systems, 1995-2001
William Colby
Spy, CIA Director, 1973-75
William Cohen
Government, US Secretary of Defense, 1997-01
William Sloane Coffin
Activist, Civilly disobedient chaplain
William Cochran
Physicist, Crystallography
William W. Coblentz
Astronomer, Infrared spectroscopy
William K. Coblentz
Attorney, Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass
William Cobbett
Politician, Difficult English politician
William F. Clinger, Jr.
Politician, Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979-97
William L. Clay
Politician, Congressman from Missouri, 1969-2001