People
- Wild Bill Hickok, or James Butler Hickok (1837–1876), gunfighter and legendary figure of the American West
- "Wild Bill" Hickman, or William Adams Hickman (1815–1883), frontiersman, ex-Mormon, and purported murderer
- Bill Hickok (football) (1874–1933), American football player and businessman
- Bill Lovett (c. 1894–1923), Irish-American gangster in New York
- Bill Davison (1906–1989), America jazz cornet player
- Bill Stealey (born 1947), retired U.S. Air Force pilot and computer game producer
- William Edward Donovan (1876–1923), American professional baseball pitcher and manager
- William Kocay, Canadian professor and graph theorist.
- William Joseph Donovan (1883–1959), American soldier, lawyer, and intelligence officer, founder of the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency
- William Guarnere (born 1922), American soldier in the 101st Airborne during World War II, made famous by the mini-series Band of Brothers
- Bill Elliott (born 1955), 1988 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Champion with two Daytona 500 victories (1985 and 1987)
- Bill Wiles (born 1971), an American professional wrestler
- William Cutolo, a New York mobster
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“It is ... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
““Cursed be anyone who moves a neighbor’s boundary marker.” All the people shall say, “Amen!””
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 27:17.
“What’s important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises.... The people have always lived on hope alone.”
—Hermann Broch (1886–1951)