List of Famous people named Bill

Name Bill is among the most common names in USA, Canada. Often it's a shorthand for William. Similar names: William, Billy, Bela, Bella, Billie, Belle, Bille, Bel, Bell, Bil, Bello, Byllee. Here are some famous Bills:

Bill Carrigan

First Name Bill
Last Name Carrigan
Born on October 22, 1883
Died on July 8, 1969 (aged 85)

William Francis Carrigan, nicknamed "Rough", was a Major League baseball catcher and manager. He played for the Boston Red Sox between 1906 and 1916, and he was a player-manager for the last four of those seasons. In 1915 and 1916, Carrigan's teams won back-to-back World Series. He was said to exert a positive influence on young Red Sox star Babe Ruth, serving as his roommate and his manager.

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Bill Day

First Name Bill
Last Name Day
Born on January 1, 1953 (age 73)

Bill Day is an American documentary filmmaker and YouTuber. Day worked for both the National Geographic Channel and Discovery Channel. For CNN, he produced a documentary film about the Osa Peninsula.

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Bill Nagy

First Name Bill
Last Name Nagy
Born on February 21, 1921
Died on January 19, 1973 (aged 51)

Bill Nagy (1921–1973) was a Canadian-born film and television actor who settled and worked in Britain. He began working on the London stage, appearing in the West End production of South Pacific.

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Bill Littlejohn

First Name Bill
Last Name Littlejohn
Died on September 17, 2010 (aged 40)

William Charles Littlejohn was an American animator and union organizer. Littlejohn worked on animated shorts and features in the 1930s through to the 1990s. His notable works include the Tom and Jerry shorts, Peanuts television specials, the Oscar-winning short, The Hole (1962), and the Oscar-nominated A Doonesbury Special (1977). He was inducted into the Cartoon Hall of Fame and received the Winsor McCay Award and garnered lifetime achievement awards from the Annie Awards and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Director Michael Sporn has called Littlejohn "an animation 'God'."

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Bill Atkinson

First Name Bill
Last Name Atkinson
Born on January 1, 1951 (age 75)

Bill Atkinson is an American computer engineer and photographer. Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990.

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Bill Arp

First Name Bill
Last Name Arp
Died on August 24, 1903

Charles Henry Smith was an American writer and politician from the state of Georgia. He used the nom de plume Bill Arp for nearly 40 years. He had a national reputation as a homespun humorist during his lifetime, and at least four communities are named for him.

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Bill Alfond

First Name Bill
Last Name Alfond
Born on November 30, 1948 (age 77)
Net Worth $2.3B

Bill Alfond is an American investor, philanthropist, and billionaire.

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Bill Dickey

First Name Bill
Last Name Dickey
Died on November 12, 1993 (aged 23)

William Malcolm Dickey was an American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees for 19 seasons. Dickey managed the Yankees as a player-manager in 1946 in his last season as a player.

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Bill Roberts

First Name Bill
Last Name Roberts
Born on August 2, 1899
Died on March 18, 1974 (aged 74)
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Bill W. Benton

First Name Bill
Last Name Benton
Born on November 30, 1949 (age 76)

Bill W. Benton is an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category. He has worked on more than 110 films since 1980.

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