Bill (given name)
Bill is a masculine given name, generally a short form (hypocorism) of William. It can also be used as the adaptation into English of the popular Greek name Vasilis or Vasileios (Basil), especially amongst Greek immigrants in English-speaking countries, probably due to similarly in the sound.
People named Bill include:
- Bill Barr (born 1950), Attorney General of the United state
- Bill Barretta (born 1964), American actor and puppeteer
- Bill Burr (born 1968), American comedian
- Bill Bennett (1932-2015), Canadian politician
- Bill Belichick (born 1952), American National Football League head coach
- Bill Bixby (1934–1993), American actor and director
- Bill Bowman (racing driver), former NASCAR Cup Series driver
- Bill Bradley (born 1943), American politician and basketball player
- Bill Buckner (1949-2019), American baseball player
- Bill Clinton (born 1946), 42nd president of the United States
- Bill Cosby (born 1937), American stand-up comedian, actor, musician and author who was convicted of sexual assault
- Bill Cowher (born 1957), American retired National Football League head coach and player
- Bill de Blasio (born 1961), American politician, Mayor of New York City
- Bill Elliott (born 1955), American retired NASCAR driver
- Bill Evans (1929-1980), American jazz pianist
- Bill Graham (born 1939), Canadian politician
- Bill Fagerbakke (born 1957), American voice actor
- Bill Farmer (born 1952), American voice actor
- Bill Foster (disambiguation), multiple people
- Bill Frist (born 1952), American politician
- Bill Gates (disambiguation)
- Bill Gates (born 1955), American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist
- Bill Goldberg (born 1966), American professional NFL football player and professional wrestler
- Bill Hanson (basketball) (born c. 1940), basketball player
- Bill Hader (born 1978), American comedian
- Bill Hicks (1961-1994), American comedian
- Bill James (born 1949), American baseball writer
- Bill Kurtis (born 1940), American TV personality
- Bill Lear (1902–1978), American inventor and businessman, founder of the Lear Jet Corporation
- Bill Maher (disambiguation)
- Bill Maher (born 1956), American comedian, political commentator and television host
- Bill Medley (born 1940), American singer and songwriter, half of The Righteous Brothers
- Bill Mitchell (born 1960), American politician
- Bill Miner (c. 1847-1913), American Old West stagecoach and train robber
- Bill Murray (disambiguation)
- Bill Murray (born 1950), American actor, comedian, and writer
- Bill Nelson, American politician, former US Senator
- Bill Nighy (born 1949), British actor
- Bill Nye (disambiguation)
- Bill Nye (born 1955), American science communicator, television presenter and mechanical engineer, known as "Bill Nye the Science Guy"
- Bill O'Reilly (disambiguation)
- Bill Oberst Jr., an American stage, film, and television actor
- Bill Owen (1914-1999), English actor
- Bill Parcells (born 1941), American former National Football League head coach
- Bill Paxton (1955–2017), American actor and director
- Bill Peet (1915-2002), American author and animator
- Bill Potts (disambiguation) (multiple persons)
- Bill Pullman (born 1953), American actor
- William Robinson (disambiguation), which includes several Bills
- Bill Robinson (1878–1949), African-American tap dancer and actor nicknamed "Bojangles"
- Bill Russell (born 1934), American Hall-of-Fame retired National Basketball Association player
- Bill Schwarz British historian, academic and writer
- Bill Shankly (1913-1981), British Soccer Manager
- Bill Skarsgård (born 1990), Swedish actor known for portraying Pennywise the dancing clown
- Bill Sweek (born 1946/1947), American basketball player and coach
- Bill Vander Zalm (born 1934), Canadian politician
- Bill W. (1895-1971), co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
- Bill Walsh (1931-2007), American National Football League head coach
- Bill Walker (born 1987), American basketball player
- Bill Walton (born 1952), American Hall-of-Fame retired National Basketball Association player
- Bill Ward (born 1948), English musician, drummer for Black Sabbath
- Bill Watterson (born 1958), American cartoonist, author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes
- Bill Weld (born 1945), American attorney, 68th governor of Massachusetts
- Bill Wold, American basketball player
- Bill Wurtz (born 1989) American musician and video creator.
- Bill Wyman (born William George Perks Jr. in 1936), English musician, record producer, songwriter and singer, former bass guitarist for the Rolling Stones
Fictional characters
- Bill Cipher, a character in Gravity Falls.
- Bill Denbrough, a character in the novel and film It (2017 film)
- Bill Potts (Doctor Who), a character in Doctor Who.
- Bill Sikes, main antagonist from Oliver Twist
- Bill Standall, a character in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why
See also
- Buffalo Bill (1846-1917), American Old West scout, bison hunter and showman
- "Wild Bill" Hickok (1837-1876), American Old West folk hero
- William T. Anderson (1840-1864), pro-Confederate guerrilla leader in the American Civil War known as "Bloody Bill"
- Major “Bloody Bill” Cunningham (1756-1787), American Revolutionary War loyalist
- William "Bible Bill" Aberhart (1878-1943), Canadian politician
- Big Bill (disambiguation)
- Little Bill (disambiguation)
- Billy (name)
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