# Who is on your Mount Rushmore of Williams? - nominees for poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 22, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620 "2015-05-22T23:05:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620/21 "2015-05-23T08:49:19Z")
Bill Nicholson (Tottenham manager) Bill Shankly (Liverpool manager) William Wilberforce (Influential in outlawing slavery in the UK) Willie Johnston (Disgraced Scottish Footballer) Not sure what Dakotans would make of that, though… ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620/22 "2015-05-23T11:16:32Z")
> [@tnetennba](#): > > Now let’s do a thread for people named Shaquille. Can’t think of any I’d want to see on a monument. mmm ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620/23 "2015-05-23T14:24:00Z")
Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, Bragg ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620/24 "2015-05-24T00:11:15Z")
Do we throw in Billy Sherman for the arsonists vote? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620/25 "2015-05-24T14:10:12Z")
William Bradford, founder and governor of Plymouth Colony. My grandfather William. Bill Nye William Shockley, inventor of the transistor ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620/26 "2015-05-24T17:17:12Z")
[threadshit]If they’re not named Dave then they ain’t my fav [/threadshit] ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620/27 "2015-05-24T18:53:43Z")
Tennessee Williams ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620/28 "2015-05-24T20:02:22Z")
Willie Nelson (can’t believe I’m first!) Billy Gibbons ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620/29 "2015-05-25T22:55:55Z")
Bill Russell\* Bill Wyman Bill Cowher Bill Laimbeer Bill Walsh\* William Holden\* William Henry Harrison\* My top 4 of the ones I could think of that were not yet mentioned ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620/30 "2015-05-26T07:24:43Z")
Billie Jean King Billie Whitelaw ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620/31 "2015-05-26T08:06:20Z")
[Bill the Cat.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_the_Cat) ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620/32 "2015-05-26T14:53:51Z")
[Mr. Bill](http://www.officeoxygen.com/images/CLTMRB.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620/33 "2015-05-26T15:06:06Z")
[William Williams.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Williams_%28Continental_Congress%29) ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620/34 "2015-05-26T16:45:44Z")
Sore more options from the sporting world: Bill Belichick Bill Bradley Bill James Bill Veeck But if I had to pick four, it’s Conqueror, Shakespeare, Clinton and Gates. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620/35 "2015-05-26T17:06:17Z")
William James [William H.R. Rivers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._R._Rivers) William Butler Yeats William Blake ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620/36 "2015-05-26T17:34:31Z")
The Conqueror McKinley Clinton Little Willy Willy who won’t go home. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620/37 "2015-05-27T01:36:34Z")
> [@txtumbleweed](#): > > Willie Mays Willie is not a William. Remember that from a baseball card I had when I was 6 years old back in the early 60’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-on-your-mount-rushmore-of-williams-nominees-for-poll/720620.md?page=1)