William Dalrymple reviewing the literature in 1999 tells us that J. E. Hanauer in his 1907 book Folklore of the Holy Land: Muslim, Christian and Jewish " mentioned a shrine in the village of Beit Jala, beside Bethlehem, which at the time was frequented by all three of Palestine's religious communities.

After his recovery, Alexandra and Edward were crowned together in August: he by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Frederick Temple, and she by the Archbishop of York, William Dalrymple Maclagan.

Following Bligh's overthrow Johnston had notified his superior officer, Colonel William Paterson, who was in Tasmania establishing a settlement at Port Dalrymple ( now Launceston ), of events.

Lieutenant Colonel William Dalrymple, commander of the troops, did not offer to move them.

To the north-east, Mount Dalrymple and Mount William are two separate peaks, which are the same height at 1, 259 m. Eungella is the lowest part of the range and looks over the Pioneer Valley to the east.

Her baptism took place at St Mary Magdalene's Church near Sandringham on 7 June 1897 by William Dalrymple Maclagan, Archbishop of York.

In Xanadu is a 1989 travel book by William Dalrymple, at the age of 22 he sets off along the Silk Road from Antioch.

In October 2007, Warraq participated in the IQ2 debates in London with Douglas Murray, David Aaronovitch, Tariq Ramadan, William Dalrymple, and Charles Glass

The novel City of Djinns by William Dalrymple also features a chapter on hijras.

The book won praise for Lévy's courage in investigating the affair in one of the world's most dangerous regions but was condemned by the British historian of India and travel writer William Dalrymple ( among others ) for its lack of rigour and its caricatural depictions of Pakistani society, as well as his decision to fictionalize Pearl's thoughts in the closing moments of his life.

* William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857

* William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th Century India

The Scottish author William Dalrymple ( born 1965 ), whose work primarily focuses on British India, has roots in the town, with his family having once owned much of the area.

It was originally created for William Crichton, 9th Lord Crichton of Sanquhar, in 1633, and stayed in the Crichton family until the death of the fourth earl in 1758, at which point the title passed to first the Dalrymple and then the McDouall families before finally being inherited by the Marquesses of Bute, where it remains today.

William Dalrymple ( d. 1744 ) ( heir presumptive to the peerages from 1707 to 1744 ) had married Penelope Crichton, 4th Countess of Dumfries, a peeress in her own right.

William Dalrymple by his wife the Countess of Dumfries.

He was the son of General William Dalrymple.

* John William Henry Dalrymple, 7th Earl of Stair ( 1784 – 1840 ); most notable for having his 1808 marriage to Lady Laura Manners ended by divorce in 1809 annulled when a previous marriage contract in 1804 to another woman was revealed.

Consequently when during the first session Muir rose to present the Address he was vigorously opposed by a powerful unionist section among the delegates led by Col. William Dalrymple, Lord Daer and Richard Fowler.

Those signing that nomination letter were: James Rennell, William Marsden, Charles Blagden, Alexander Dalrymple, Samuel Harper, George Staunton, Thomas Astle.

* 1804: Colonel William Paterson establishes Port Dalrymple ( Tamar River ) settlement, first at George Town, then at York Town on river's western side.

* Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, a 2009 travel book by William Dalrymple

In The Last Mughal, historian William Dalrymple examines the effects on the Muslim population of Delhi after the city was retaken by the British and finds that intellectual and economic control of the city shifted from Muslim to Hindu hands because the British, at that time, saw an Islamic hand behind the mutiny.

Professor Kim Wagner has the most recent survey of the historiography, and stresses the importance of William Dalrymple ’ s The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 ( 2006 ) for its " richly detailed account of the period during which the erstwhile Mughal capital was in the hands of the rebels.

He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, the only son of the Scottish king William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont.

William Jefferson " Bill " Clinton ( born William Jefferson Blythe III ; August 19, 1946 ) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe, III, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas.

His father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before Bill was born.

William " Bill " Boyd Watterson II ( born July 5, 1958 ) is an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995.

Bill Haley was born in Highland Park, Michigan as William John Clifton Haley.

Charles William " Bill " Mumy, Jr. (; born February 1, 1954 ) is an American actor, musician, pitchman, instrumentalist, voice-over artist and a figure in the science-fiction community.

Mumy was born in San Gabriel, California, the son of Muriel Gertrude ( née Gould ) and Charles William Mumy, Sr., a cattle rancher.

The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.

* William " WAK " King ( trumpet, rhythm guitar, synthesizer ) – born January 30, 1949, Alabama.

Barks was born in Merrill, Oregon to William Barks and his wife Arminta Johnson.

Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff was born in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Evanston to Alma Sophia ( née Welz, a housewife ) and William Kappelhoff ( a music teacher and choir master ).

William Dwight Schultz ( born November 24, 1947 ) is an American stage, television, film actor, and voice artist.

Atchison was born to William Atchison in Frogtown ( later Kirklevington ), which is now part of Lexington, Kentucky.

Their son William, and Henry's illegitimate son, Geoffrey, were born just months apart.

Bulwer-Lytton was born on 25 May 1803 to General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire.

Wray, a descendant of both Springfield, Massachusetts, settler William Pynchon and Mormon pioneers, was born on a ranch near Cardston, Alberta, Canada, to two Mormons, Elvina Marguerite Jones, who was from Salt Lake City, and Joseph Heber Wray, who was from Kingston upon Hull, England.

Although born in Inverness, was brought up and educated in Fort William.

* Justin Ryan-interior decorator and television presenter, although born in Glasgow, was brought up in Fort William.

* Allan MacDonald-Roman Catholic priest, Scottish Gaelic scholar, and pastor in South Uist and Eriskay, was born and brought up in Fort William.

Ackerman was born Forrest James Ackerman ( though he would refer to himself from the early 1930s on as " Forrest J Ackerman " with no period after the middle initial ) on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles, to Carroll Cridland ( née Wyman ; 1883 – 1977 ) and William Schilling Ackerman ( 1892 – 1951 ).

Beckett was born at Hammersmith, United Kingdom, the eldest son of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett and the brother of Arthur William à Beckett.

William Gary Busey ( born June 29, 1944 ), best known as Gary Busey, is an American film and stage actor, and artist.

His father, William Ford ( 1826 – 1905 ), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.