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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