Famous People with Name Bill

Bill Gilligan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bill Gilligan: is an American professional ice hockey coach. He is also a former professional ice hockey winger who played in 128 World Hockey Association regular season games with the Cincinnati Stingers between 1977 and 1979 before moving to Europe. He was also a memb

Bill Lindsay            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bill Lindsay: is a retired ice hockey player. He has played in the National Hockey League for the Quebec Nordiques, Florida Panthers, Calgary Flames, San Jose Sharks, Montreal Canadiens and the Atlanta Thrashers. He was drafted 103rd overall by the Nordiques in the 199

Bill McCreary, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bill McCreary, Jr.: He was a professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League. He is the son of former NHLer Bill McCreary Sr., nephew of former NHLers Keith McCreary and Ron Attwell, and cousin of former NHLer Bob Attwell and NHL referee Bill McCreary. His son,

Bill Riley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bill Riley: is a retired ice hockey player. Riley helped lead Dartmouth College to two Frozen Fours during his career. His brothers John and Joe are also in the USHOF.

Bill Fontana            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bill Fontana: is known internationally for his pioneering experiments in sound art.Fontana attended New School for Social Research in New York and studied both music and philosophy. He traveled to Australia, and also stayed in Japan and Germany composing. Fontana began making sound sculptures in 1976. In a career spanning 30 years, Fontana’s sound sculptures use the urban environment as a living source of musical information, all with the potential to conjure up visual imagery in the mind of the listener. He has made works all over the world and has presented his sound sculptures extensively, including at the Venice Biennale (1999), the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (1995), The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1991) and Tate Modern, London (2006), and Madison Square Park, New York (2007). Some of his more famous works include Distant Trains, Satellite Ear Bridge Cologne-San Francisco, Journey Through My Sound Sculptures, The Sound of an Unblown Flute, and Panoramic Echoes.

Karen Bill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Karen Bill: a multi-sports star who has participated in the Olympic Games' trials. She had a career, from 1999 to 2002, as a female boxer.On May 7, 1999, she made her professional boxing career debut, when she lost by knockout in round three to Carmen Dominguez Paris at Lawton. She was not supposed to fight that night; she had bought a ticket and gone to see the fight undercard as a fan, but the boxer that was due to fight Dominguez did not show up, and Bill offered to fight her instead. Next, she lost to Kisha Snow, also by knockout but in four rounds, in a fight held at Tunica, Mississippi, on September 2.

Caleb Rand Bill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Caleb Rand Bill: was a member of the Canadian Senate.He represented Kings County from 1855 to 1859 and the northern region of Kings County from 1863 to 1867 in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. A Liberal-Conservative, he was appointed to the Senate on 23 October 1867 by a royal proclamation of Queen Victoria following Canadian Confederation earlier that year. He represented the senatorial division of Nova Scotia until his death. He was also governor for Acadia College, president of the county agricultural society and a member of the school commission.