Earl Williams

Earl Williams may refer to:

  • Earl Williams (1920s catcher) (1903–1958), Major League Baseball player, 1928
  • Earl Williams (1970s catcher) (born 1948), Major League Baseball player, 1970–1977
  • Earl Williams (basketball coach), American basketball coach (1905–1908) of the Akron Zips
  • Earl Williams (basketball player) (born 1951), American basketball player
  • Earl Williams (politician) (born 1964), former Leader of the Opposition in Dominica
  • Earl Larkin Williams (1903–1974), American astronomer and mathematician
  • Earl Williams, the fictional accused murderer played by John Qualen in His Girl Friday (1940)

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or williams:

    The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    I begin with a design for a hearse.
    For Christ’s sake not black—
    nor white either—and not polished!
    Let it be weathered—like a farm wagon—
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)