Who is on your Mount Rushmore of Williams? - nominees for poll

Who are your top four Williams?

Use whatever criteria you like to define your four. All forms of the name are acceptable (Bill, Billy, Will, Willy, Liam, etc.).

Real people, living or dead, only. Please limit your nominees to four or less.

I’ll put up a poll in a few days, then we’ll get this settled once and for all.
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Reading the title I expecting you to be asking which characters played by Robin Williams would I nominate…

That said, the only one coming to mind is Robin Williams. :slight_smile:

Williams Pinball Company, Williams Formula One Team.

William Faulkner
William Shakespeare
Billy Joel
Bill Clinton

That was harder than I thought. The first two were easy for me. The others were tough. I like Billy Joel and Bill Clinton well enough, but maybe not so much as to carve them into a mountain.

William Faulkner
William Blake
Willie Mays
Willie Dixon

Well, instead of echo some others let me add some alternatives:

William Shatner
Prince William
William Wallace

That’s all I got.

William Shatner
William Shakespeare
Willie Mays
Billy Dee Williams

William of Ockham
William Howard Taft
William Rehnquist
William of Orange
Billy Idol
Billy Martin
Bill DeBlasio
Billy Jo McAlester (not a real person)

Not suggesting these are all serious contenders, just some alternative noteworthy Bills/Wills.

Bill Murray

ETA: There, I complete my four nominees.

William the Conqueror
Bill Gates
William Shatner
Willie Mays

I should have specified in the OP:

First names only. No Robin, no Andy, no Venus, no Hank.
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I went last name Williams

David Marshall (Carbine) Williams
Hank Williams Sr
Wendy O Williams
Ted Williams

First name:
William Harley
William Ruger
William S Burroughs

Damn, you are mean! :smiley:

Bill Murray ***
Bill Withers
Billy The Kid
Will Rogers ***
William Carlos Williams
William Boyd (Hopalong)
William Bendix
Bill Evans ***
Bill Cullen
Billy Bob Thornton ***

The *** guys are the ones I’d pick if limited to four. Others as they came to mind.

William Tell

Will Smith
Will Ferrell

William Stafford.

Fiction.

I apologize in advance to all of the probable much more deserving Williams I’ve never heard of.

Bill Murray
William Shakespeare
Bill Clinton
William Shatner

That’s the best I can do without research.

Now let’s do a thread for people named Shaquille.