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Jayson Williams
Jayson Williams played nine seasons (1990-99) in the National Basketball Association, but is now better known as the guy from the New Jersey Nets who shot his limo driver. A 6'10" power forward,…John Williams
John Williams is the biggest name in the history of movie music and, probably, the most widely-heard composer of the last one hundred years. Williams began composing for television in the late 1950s…William Hurt
A cerebral leading man and offbeat character actor, William Hurt was one of the more distinctive Hollywood stars of the 1980s. Hurt won an Oscar for his leading role as a story-spinning prisoner in…William Holden
Name at birth: William Franklin Beedle, Jr.William Holden was a major leading man of the 1950s, when he played heroic cynics in the war movies Stalag 17 (1953) and Bridge On the River Kwai (1957),…William Safire
Name at birth: William Safir Conservative figurehead William Safire was an author and speechwriter for Richard Nixon before winning a Pulitzer Prize during his 30-year run as a columnist for The New…William of Ockham
William of Ockham (also spelled Occam) was a 14th century English philosopher who was also a Franciscan friar. Resistant to the popular wave of Scholasticism, a philosophical position that tried to…William McKinley
A Republican congressman from Ohio, William McKinley beat out William Jennings Bryan in 1896 to become the 25th president of the United States. McKinley called for war against Spain in 1898, partly…William Friedkin
William Friedkin was a filmmaker who made his career in the 1970s with the box office hits The French Connection and The Exorcist. He got his start in television, starting in the mail room of a…Vanessa Williams
Light-eyed, sultry Vanessa Williams was the first African-American to win the Miss America crown (1983). Williams was forced to turn in her tiara after Penthouse magazine published nude photos of…Wendy Williams
Wendy Williams spent 20 years as a popular radio host in New York and Philadelphia before making it on television as the host of her own daytime talk show. A New Jersey native and graduate of…Trending
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