WarGames was nominated for three Academy Awards — Best Cinematography ( William A. Fraker ), Sound ( Michael J. Kohut, Carlos Delarios, Aaron Rochin, Willie D. Burton ), and Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen ( Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes ).

** William Wallace " Willie " Lincoln, third son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln ( b. 1850 )

William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton ( 18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996 ) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the Private Eye satirical magazine.

* Willie Rushton's Pack Of Royals, 18 Caricature Playing Cards William Rushton ( 1995 )

William " Willie " D. Davenport ( June 8, 1943 – June 17, 2002 ) was an American athlete, born in Troy, Alabama.

William, known as " Willie " throughout his childhood, appears to have taken his Christian name from his famous uncle of Victory fame, as well as from a longstanding family tradition whereby the eldest son of every line would be baptised by that name.

A few of the many Carolina League players who have gone on to star in the Major Leagues are: Johnny Bench ( Peninsula, 1966 ), Wade Boggs ( Winston-Salem, 1977 ), Barry Bonds ( Prince William, 1985 ), Rod Carew ( Wilson, 1966 ), Dock Ellis ( Kinston, 1965 ), Dwight Evans ( Winston-Salem, 1971 ), Dwight Gooden ( Lynchburg, 1983 ), Andruw Jones ( Durham, 1996 ), Chipper Jones ( Durham, 1992 ), Willie McCovey ( Danville, 1956 ), Joe Morgan ( Durham, 1963 ), Dave Parker ( Salem, 1972 ), Tony Pérez ( Rocky Mount, 1962 ), Andy Pettitte ( Prince William, 1993 ), Jorge Posada ( Prince William, 1993 ), Darryl Strawberry ( Lynchburg, 1981 ), Bernie Williams ( Prince William, 1988 ), and Carl Yastrzemski ( Raleigh, 1959 ).

William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, KT, CH, MC, PC, DL ( 28 June 1918 – 1 July 1999 ), often known as Willie Whitelaw, was a British Conservative Party politician who served in a wide number of Cabinet positions, most notably as Home Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister.

* Andrew Duncan as William " Willie " Mead

Hall County is also the birthplace of blues musician William Daniel McFalls, better known as Blues Boy Willie.

William, Willie, Will, or Bill Smith may refer to:

William " Willie " Sklar served as alderman and later mayor for three terms.

* William " Willie " Moretti ( 1894 – 1951 ), Mafia gangster who testified before the Anti-Crime Investigation Committee ( Kefauver Committee ) and was shot dead in a Cliffside Park, New Jersey restaurant.

* William Frederick Hoppe ( 1887 – 1959 ) known as Willie Hoppe, professional carom billiards champion

Noteworthy persons of the town have included Stanford White, architect ; William Jay Gaynor, New York State Supreme Court Justice and Mayor of New York City ; Willie Collier, actor and playwright ; Mick Foley, Professional Wrestler ; Axella Johannesson, musician ; Soledad O ' Brien, television personality ; and John Petrucci, lead guitar player for Dream Theater.

Hulon Blalock, Joel Dorsey, Winnifred Haggard, William Lawrence, Bill Dick Parker, Elgin Poole, Willie Steven, D. M Summers, Pres Young and Edd Young were elected to the board.

In spring of that same year, he fell in love with Willie Dyer ( William Fear Dyer 1843-1905 ), a Bristol choirboy three years younger.

William Edward John ( November 15, 1937-May 26, 1968 ), better known by his stage name Little Willie John, was an American R & B singer who performed in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Parnell's own newspaper, the United Ireland, attacked the Land Act and he was arrested on 13 October 1881 together with his party lieutenants, William O ' Brien, John Dillon, Michael Davitt and Willie Redmond, who had also conducted a bitter verbal offensive.

* In North Towards Home, Willie Morris quotes Sir Thomas Browne's Urn Burial from memory as he walks up Park Avenue with William Styron: "' And since death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans could doubt, whether thus to live were to die ; since our longest sun sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes …' At that instant I was almost clipped by a taxicab, and the driver stuck his head out and yelled, ' Aincha got eyes in that head, ya bum?

* William Styron prefaced his 1951 novel Lie Down In Darkness with the same quotation as noted above in the remarks about Willie Morris's memoir.

William Cameron " Willie " McCool ( September 23, 1961 – February 1, 2003 ) was a United States Navy Commander, NASA astronaut and the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107.

* Sutton Valence School is founded by William Lambe.

* June 19 – Brasenose College, University of Oxford, is founded by a lawyer, Sir Richard Sutton, of Prestbury, Cheshire, and the Bishop of Lincoln, William Smyth.

It was a large manor held by William I with 16 outlying settlements ( Bristitune, Fastochesfeld, Franche, Habberley, Hurcott, Mitton, Oldington, Ribbesford, Sudwale, Sutton, Teulesberge, Trimpley, Wannerton and Wribbenhall ).

The notorious Sutton-Taylor feud began as a Reconstruction era county law enforcement issue between the Taylor family and lawman William E. Sutton.

This was the world's first council housing, and brothers Lew Grade and Bernard Delfont were brought up here .< ref >< cite >' Bethnal Green: Building and Social Conditions from 1876 to 1914 ', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green ( 1998 ), pp. 126-32 accessed: 14 November 2006 </ ref > In 1909, the Bethnal Green Estate was built with money left by the philanthropist William Richard Sutton which he left for ' modern dwellings and houses for occupation by the poor of London and other towns and populous places in England '.< ref >< cite >< cite >

The college was associated with Lancashire and Cheshire, the county origins of its two founders – Sir Richard Sutton and the Bishop of Lincoln, William Smyth – a link which was maintained strongly until the latter half of the twentieth century.

O eternal God, the Resurrection and the Life of all them that believe in thee, trust in thee, and serve thee ; thou that art always to be praised, as well for the dead as those that are alive ; We give thee most hearty thanks for our Founders and Benefactors, by whose Bounty and Charity we are brought up to religion and the studies of good learning, and particularly for William Smyth and Richard Sutton our Founders ; beseeching thee, that we may so well use these thy blessings to the praise and honour of thy holy Name, that at last, we, with them, may be brought to the immortal glory of the Resurrection ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

We give thee thanks, heavenly Father, for William Smyth, Bishop, and Richard Sutton, Knight, our Founders ; for Alexander Nowel, Joyce Frankland, Elizabeth Morley, Maurice Platnauer and for our other benefactors, humbly beseeching thee that thou wilt add to their number in goodness.

The William Edgar Haymond House and Old Sutton High School are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, along with the historic district.

By 1541 William Bromley had the licence for ferries at Seacombe, and in 1586, Queen Elizabeth granted John Poole of Sutton the rights at Tranmere.

William Fry who was baptised on 31st May 1627 in Malmsbury, Wiltshire married his wife Mary about 1652 in Sutton Benger, Wiltshire.

William moved from Corston to Sutton Benger and was the first of the Fry family to live there.

In 1872, Sir William Gull and Henry G. Sutton, M. B., F. R. C. P.

The company was founded by John Kemp Starley and William Sutton in 1878.

Historically a part of Lancashire, the town in its present form was founded in 1792 when William Sutton, an innkeeper from Churchtown, built a bathing house at what now is the south end of Lord Street, the town's main thoroughfare.

Plaque dedicated to William Sutton ( Southport ) | William Sutton, on the corner of Duke Street.

In 1792 William Sutton, the landlord of the Black Bull Inn in Churchtown ( now the Hesketh Arms ) and known to locals as " The Old Duke ", realised the importance of the newly-created canal systems across the UK and set up a bathing house in the virtually uninhabited dunes at South Hawse by the seaside just four miles ( 6 km ) away from the newly constructed Leeds and Liverpool Canal and two miles south-west of Churchtown.

A living fictionalised tribute to the genius, the work and the ideals of Bazalgette can be found in the historic Victorian novel The Worms of Euston Square by William Sutton.

* William Stanley Sutton 1907-1911

In his History of Birmingham, published in 1782, William Hutton describes the presence of three mounds adjacent to Chester Road on the extremities of Sutton Coldfield ( although now outside the modern boundaries of the town ).

Upon the death of Edwin in 1071, the manor and the rest of Mercia passed into the possession of the Crown, then ruled by William the Conqueror, resulting in Sutton Chase becoming a Royal Forest.

New Hall Manor is said to date to the 13th century also, and was mentioned in 1327 as being passed from William de Sutton to Robert de Sutton.