People
- William Penn, Jr. (1681–1720), eldest surviving son of William Penn
- William Penn (Royal Navy officer) (1621–1670), English admiral and the father of William Penn
- William Penn (athlete), American tug-of-war competitor
- William Evander Penn (1832–1895), Texas Baptist evangelist and minister
- William S. Penn (born 1949), mixed-race Nez Perce author and English professor at Michigan State
- William F. Penn, black physician in Atlanta, Georgia
- William Penn (pen name), pen name used by activist Jeremiah Evarts (1781–1831) in his essays against Indian removal
Read more about this topic: William Penn (disambiguation)
Famous quotes containing the word people:
“Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.”
—Warren Beatty (b. 1937)
“For my people lending their strength to the years: to the gone
years and the now years and the maybe years, washing ironing cooking scrubbing sewing mending hoeing plowing digging planting pruning patching dragging along never gaining never reaping never knowing and never understanding;”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)
“Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)