William Allen (born 20 December 1947) is an American sailor and Olympic champion.
Allen received a gold medal in the Soling class at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
Famous quotes containing the words william and/or allen:
“Grant me an old man’s frenzy.
Myself must I remake
Till I am Timon and Lear
Or that William Blake
Who beats upon the wall
Till truth obeyed his call....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“You don’t need a weatherman
To know which way the wind blows.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)