* 1666 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )

A translation by Richard Davies, bishop of St David's and the scholar William Salesbury was published in 1567 by Humphrey Toy as Y Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin.

* William Chomsky ( 1896 – 1977 ), American scholar of Hebrew

However, he took a more conspicuous and personal part in the preparation ( with Baptist scholar Horatio B. Hackett ) of the enlarged American edition of Dr. ( afterwards Sir ) William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible ( 1867-1870 ), to which he contributed more than 400 articles, as well as greatly improving the bibliographical completeness of the work.

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

The earliest forms of the name enabled place-name scholar William J. Watson to show that the name originally meant something like " yew-place ".

* 1844 – William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar ( d. 1930 )

Nineteenth-century Irish amateur scholar William Betham speculated that worship of Oannes is the origin of the cult of the Roman god Janus.

In 1961 an English scholar of Arabic Dr. E. E. Elder and William M. Miller, an openly hostile Christian minister, published a second English translation, Al-Kitab Al-Aqdas, through the Royal Asiatic Society.

This claim was first put forward by the biblical scholar William Robertson Smith.

Sir William Jones ( 28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794 ) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages.

His work The principles of government ; in a dialogue between a scholar and a peasant: printed and distributed gratis by the Society for Constitutional Information, 1783 was the subject of a trial for seditious libel after it was reprinted by his brother-in-law William Shipley.

The late-Victorian scholar Frederic William Maitland also introduced the possibility that Stephen's reign marked a turning point in English legal history — the so-called " tenurial crisis ".

* William Bedell Stanford ( 1911 – 1984 ), Irish classical scholar, senator, Chancellor of the University of Dublin

As Verne scholar William Butcher pointed out, Verne was an early admirer of Poe and his novel Cinq semaines en ballon ( Five Weeks in a Balloon ) was published within a year of his nonfiction book Edgar Poe et ses oeuvres ( Edgar Allan Poe and his Works ).

* May 24 – William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar ( d. 1971 )

* August 29 – William Archibald Spooner, British scholar and Anglican priest ( b. 1844 )

* July 22 – William Archibald Spooner, British scholar and Anglican priest ( d. 1930 )

** William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy, scholar and patron

** William Grocyn, English scholar ( b. 1446 )

* August 13 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )

However, according to scholar of Islam William Montgomery Watt, the clientship of the Jewish tribes is not borne out by the historical accounts of the period prior to 627, and he maintained that the Jews retained a measure of political independence.

William Tyndale ( sometimes spelled Tynsdale, Tindall, Tindill, Tyndall ; c. 1492 – 1536 ) was an English scholar who became a leading figure in Protestant reform, in the years leading up to his execution.

Louis IV was assisted in his doctrinal dispute with the papacy by Marsilius of Padua and later by the English Franciscan friar and scholar William of Ockham.

In 1857, the Austrian scholar Anton Boller suggested adding Japanese to Altaic or more precisely to Ural – Altaic.

In 1943 the German biblical scholar Martin Noth suggested that this history was composed by a single author / editor, living in the time of the Exile ( 6th century BCE ).

In 1994, scholar Brian Stonehill suggested that Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow " not only curses but precurses what we now glibly dub cyberspace.

Renowned Arthurian scholar Ernst Brugger suggested that it was a corruption of Camlann, the site of Arthur's final battle in Welsh tradition.

Meanwhile, religious scholar Max Müller theorized that religion began in hedonism and folklorist Wilhelm Mannhardt suggested that religion began in " naturalism ", by which he meant mythological explanation of natural events.

Biblical scholar Thomas Kelly Cheyne suggested that it might be a derogatory corruption of Ba ‘ al Zəbûl, " Lord of the High Place " ( i. e., Heaven ) or " High Lord ".

It is has even been suggested by one modern scholar that imaginary characters and situations might have been a feature of the poetic tradition within which Archilochus composed, known by the ancients as iambus.

* Rabbinic scholar Maimonides, suggested that " prophecy is, in truth and reality, an emanation sent forth by Divine Being through the medium of the Active Intellect, in the first instance to man's rational faculty, and then to his imaginative faculty.

A Bristolian scholar and amateur historian, Alfred Hudd, suggested in 1908 that the continental name America was derived from Amerike's surname due to his sponsorship of Cabot's expedition to Newfoundland and was used on early British maps that have since been lost.

When Emperor Dezong died on February 25, 805, there were initially some eunuchs who suggested that someone else should succeed Emperor Dezong, but at the strong advocacy of the imperial scholar Wei Cigong ( 衛次公 ), Li Song's succession was not further questioned despite his illness.

The scholar T. Gwynn Jones suggested that a possible origin of the term " Berwyn " was " Bryn ( iau ) Gwyn ( ap Nudd )", where the Middle Welsh word " bre " ( hill ) had mutated to Ber + Gwyn, Gwyn ap Nudd being the mythological King of the Tylwyth teg ( Fair Folk, or fairies ).

This is suggested by, among other things, an admittedly corrupt late copy of the Hittite laws in which the geographical term Luwiya is replaced with Arzawa, a western Anatolian kingdom corresponding roughly with Mira and the Seha River Land ( although one scholar has argued that a chain of scribal error and revision led to this substitution, and that Luwiya was not coterminous with Arzawa but was further east in the area of the Konya plain ).

Another scholar suggested that the film is meant to express a number of observations of society by having the gremlin characters shift in what they are meant to represent.

As the guide towards knowledge, insight, and wisdom, in a tarot reading it might, for example, represent a priest, scholar, therapist, or teacher although these individuals are more definitively represented by the Hermit, or suggested by the traits attributed to the King of Cups.

According to scholar Dan Grigorescu, his essays of the time fluctuate away from Constructivism, and adopt ideas common in Expressionism, Surrealism, or even the Byzantine revival suggested by anti-modernist reviews.

The 19th century scholar Julius Wellhausen suggested that Hubal was regarded as the son of al-Lāt and the brother of Wadd.

Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley has suggested that he was a merchant and contemporary of the Seven Wise Men of Greece.

It has been suggested that Abhayadatta Sri is identical with the great Indian scholar Mahapandita Abhayakaragupta ( late 11th – early 12th century ), the compiler of the iconographic compendiums Vajravali, Nispannayogavali, and Jyotirmanjari.

In 1864 the traveler and scholar Jacob Saphir visited the synagogue and explored the genizah for two days ; while he did not identify any specific item of significance he suggested that possibly valuable items might be in store.

In his youth, Han Fei studied with Xunzi, a Confucian scholar who formed the hypothesis that suggested human infants must be brought to their virtuous form through social-class-oriented Confucian moral education.

One contemporary biblical scholar, Alexander Rofé, has suggested that the verb describing Dinah as " defiled " was added at this time also, as elsewhere in the Bible only married or betrothed women are " defiled " by rape ; the fact that Genesis 34 is the sole exception suggests that it reflects a " late, postexilic notion that the idolatrous gentiles are impure supports the prohibition of intermarriage and intercourse with them.

The scholar and lexicographer S. Vaiyapuripillai, however, suggested that he probably belonged to the beginning of the eighth-century AD, pointing out that Tirumūlar could not very well be placed earlier given that he appears to refer to the Tevaram hymns of Sambandar, Appar and Sundarar, that he used ` very late words ' and that he made mention of the weekdays.

He suggested to Parry that he observe the mechanics of a living oral tradition to confirm whether this suggestion was valid ; he also introduced Parry to the Slovene scholar Matija Murko, who had written extensively about the heroic epic tradition in Serbo-Croat and particularly in Bosnia with the help of phonograph recordings.

He was interviewed by Egyptian writer journalist Anis Mansour, after the editor of than famous Al Hilal Magazine editor scholar Dr. Hussain Mu ' nis suggested that Mr, Mansour interview Maldivian students, for his book حول العالم في 200 يوم ( my journey around the world in 200 days ).