* William B. Mayo, ( 1860 – 1944 ), chief power engineer of Ford Motor Company

* William James Mayo ( 1861 – 1939 ), co-founder of the Mayo Clinic

* William Worrall Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic

They controlled most of what is now the barony of Murrisk in South-West County Mayo and recognized as their nominal overlords Mac William Íochtar Bourkes, who controlled much of what is now County Mayo ( the Bourkes were originally Anglo-Irish but by her lifetime completely gaelicised ).

In 1737, planter William Byrd II commissioned Major William Mayo to lay out the original town grid.

* Uncredited cast members include Eddie Acuff, Murray Alper, Ward Bond, Walter Brooke, Georgia Carroll, Glen Cavender, Spencer Charters, Wallis Clark, William B. Davidson, Ann Doran, Tom Dugan, Bill Edwards, Frank Faylen, Pat Flaherty, James Flavin, William Forrest, William Gillespie, Joe Gray, Creighton Hale, John Hamilton, Harry Hayden, Stuart Holmes, William Hopper, Eddie Kane, Fred Kelsey, Vera Lewis, Audrey Long, Hank Mann, Frank Mayo, Lon McCallister, Edward McWade, George Meeker, Dolores Moran, Charles Morton, Jack Mower, Paul Panzer, Francis Pierlot, Clinton Rosemond, Syd Saylor, Frank Sully, Dick Wessel, Leo White and Dave Willock.

He was later joined by James Bailey, Samuel Caruthers, William Flemming, M. Johnson, Willam Kendrick, Robert Thrasher, A. Patterson, and Kinchen Mayo who extended the settlement along the creek toward the Junction.

A former graduate of the school William Worrall Mayo established the famed Mayo Clinic in Minnesota in 1889.

* William Worrall Mayo: founder of the Mayo Clinic

Dr. William James Mayo and Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, who came from Le Sueur, nine miles ( 14 km ) north of St. Peter and were friends of the governor, performed the operation.

In 1863, Dr. William W. Mayo arrived as the examining surgeon for draftees in the Civil War.

The town incorporated in 1885, and nine years later Prof. William L. Mayo moved East Texas Normal College from Cooper to Commerce after the school burned.

Dr. William W. Mayo House.

William Worrall Mayo was an early resident who began his practice in Le Sueur.

In 1829 he married Henrietta Preston, sister of Kentucky politician and future civil war general William Preston.

* 1969 – United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition ; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.

In this 1926 photo, William P. McCracken, assistant secretary of commerce for civil aviation, is shown with Secretary Hoover ( center ) and assistant secretary of commerce Walter Drake.

The owner of the vase declined to bring a civil action against William Mulcahy because he did not want his family to suffer for " an act of folly or madness which they could not control ".

It can be recognized in legal treatises like William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and enactments like the French Code civil or the German BGB.

* 2003's Captain's Blood, one of many collaborative works between Star Trek lead William Shatner and husband-and-wife team Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, focused on the involvement of Kirk in preventing a Romulan civil war in the aftermath of Star Trek: Nemesis.

The first thermodynamic textbook was written in 1859 by William Rankine, originally trained as a physicist and a civil and mechanical engineering professor at the University of Glasgow.

Concerns that defamation under common law might be incompatible with the new republican form of government caused early American courts to struggle between William Blackstone's argument that the punishment of " dangerous or offensive writings ... necessary for the preservation of peace and good order, of government and religion, the only solid foundations of civil liberty " and the argument that the need for a free press guaranteed by the Constitution outweighed the fear of what might be written.

The group has disparate views of social policy: Thatcher herself was socially conservative and a practising Methodist but the free-market wing in the Conservative Party harbour a range of social opinions from the civil libertarian views of Michael Portillo, Daniel Hannan, Douglas Carswell and David Davis to the traditional conservatism of William Hague.

Notable Unitarians include Béla Bartók the 20th century composer, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker in theology and ministry, Charles Darwin, Joseph Priestley and Linus Pauling in science, George Boole in mathematics, Susan B. Anthony, John Locke in civil government, and Florence Nightingale in humanitarianism and social justice, Charles Dickens, John Bowring and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in literature, Frank Lloyd Wright in arts, Josiah Wedgwood in industry, Thomas Starr King in ministry and politics, and Charles William Eliot in education.

In July 1972 William Whitelaw introduced Special Category Status for those sentenced for crimes relating to the civil violence.

Concerned about her financial situation, her old friend William Buckland persuaded the British Association for the Advancement of Science and the British government to award her an annuity, known as a civil list pension, in return for her many contributions to the science of geology.

** William Blathwayt, civil servant and politician

Political leaders and reformers like Mahatma Gandhi, President John F. Kennedy, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Russian author Leo Tolstoy all spoke of being strongly affected by Thoreau's work, particularly Civil Disobedience, as did " right-wing theorist Frank Chodorov devoted an entire issue of his monthly, Analysis, to an appreciation of Thoreau.

Early 13th century, Ada, Countess of Holland took refuge here when she was fighting in a civil war against her uncle, William I, Count of Holland.

He offered to make William Sovereign Prince of Holland in exchange for his capitulation — whereas a stadtholder was a mere civil servant.

Ramsay was born in Glasgow on 2 October 1852, the son of civil engineer William Ramsay and Catherine, née Robertson.

This led to a conflict between the major Dutch cities and the new stadtholder William II of Orange, bringing the Republic to the brink of civil war ; the stadtholder's unexpected death in 1650 only added to the political tensions.

During the civil wars in Ireland, William had taken two manors that the Bishop of Ferns claimed but could not get back.

A prominent example of these were the Flemings that fought during the English civil wars, known as the Anarchy or the Nineteen-Year Winter ( AD 1135 to 1154 ), under the command of William of Ypres, who was King Stephen's chief lieutenant from 1139 to 1154 and who was made Earl of Kent by Stephen.

After the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), William Mahone, a civil engineer and hero of the Battle of the Crater, was the driving force in the linkage of 3 railroads, including the V & T, across the southern tier of Virginia to form the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad ( AM & O ), a new line extending from Norfolk to Bristol, Virginia in 1870.

On 2 May 1975, upon the 200th anniversary of the Corps, retired General Sverdrup, who had civil engineering projects including the landmark-long Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel to his credit, presented the Gold Castles to then-Chief of Engineers Lieutenant General William C. Gribble, Jr., who had also served under General MacArthur in the Pacific.

His attorneys in the gun violation case were civil rights advocate Murphy Bell of Baton Rouge, and the self described " radical lawyer " William Kunstler.

* 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting ( d. 1839 )

* 1783 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge ( d. 1852 )

In Philadelphia, Beaux's aunt Emily married mining engineer William Foster Biddle, whom Beaux would later describe as " after my grandmother, the strongest and most beneficent influence in my life.

* Frederick William Cumberland ( 1821 – 1881 ), engineer and politician

The Mouse_ ( computing )# Early_mice | first prototype of a computer mouse, as designed by William English ( computer engineer ) | Bill English from Engelbart's sketches.

The first electrical engineer was probably William Gilbert who designed the versorium: a device that detected the presence of statically charged objects.

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, chief engineer with the Edison Laboratories, is credited with the invention of a practicable form of a celluloid strip containing a sequence of images, the basis of a method of photographing and projecting moving images.

William Smith ( 1769 – 1839 ), an English canal engineer, observed that rocks of different ages ( based on the law of superposition ) preserved different assemblages of fossils, and that these assemblages succeeded one another in a regular and determinable order.

* 1829 – William Stanley, inventor and engineer ( d. 1909 )

Joseph Boussinesq ( a mathematician and physicist ) developed theories of stress distribution in elastic solids that proved useful for estimating stresses at depth in the ground ; William Rankine, an engineer and physicist, developed an alternative to Coulomb's earth pressure theory.

* 1824 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish physicist and engineer ( d. 1907 )

* 1820 – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish engineer and physicist ( d. 1872 )

William Jan Berry ( born in Los Angeles, California April 3, 1941 ; died March 26, 2004 ), was the son of aeronautical engineer William L. Berry ( born December 7, 1909 in The Bronx, NY ; died December 19, 2004 in Camarillo, California ), who had been project manager of the " Spruce Goose " and flew on its only flight with Howard Hughes, and Clara Lorentze Mustad Berry ( born September 2, 1919 in Bergen, Norway ; died July 9, 2009 ).

Edward William Barton-Wright, a railway engineer who had studied jujitsu while working in Japan between 1894 – 97, was the first man known to have taught Asian martial arts in Europe.

* 1883 – William Siemens, German engineer ( b. 1823 )

* 1941 – William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer

It was invented by the Scottish engineer William Murdoch in the 19th century and was later developed by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company.

Rankine is a thermodynamic ( absolute ) temperature scale named after the Glasgow University engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, who proposed it in 1859.

* 1821 – William Jervois, English engineer and caption, 10th Governor of South Australia ( d. 1897 )

William Joseph Hammer, a consulting electrical engineer, began his duties as a laboratory assistant to Edison in December

* William Fairbairn, a Scottish engineer associated with water wheels and the Britannia tubular bridge but above all with a scientific approach to engineering.