Famous People with Name William

William Charles Windeyer            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

William Charles Windeyer: was an Australian politician and judge

William Portus Cullen            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

William Portus Cullen: was Chief Justice of New South Wales, Australia

Sir William Billy McMahon            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Sir William Billy McMahon: Australian politician and 20th Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Sydney, New South Wales, where his father was a lawyer. He was of Irish ancestry.McMahon was elected to the House of Representatives for the Sydney seat of Lowe in 1949, one of the flood of new Liberal MPs known as the "forty-niners". He was capable and ambitious, and in 1951 Prime Minister Robert Menzies made him Minister for Air and Minister for the Navy. Over the next 15 years he held the portfolios of Social Services, Commerce and Agriculture and Labour and National Service. In 1966, when Harold Holt became Prime Minister, McMahon succeeded him as Treasurer and as Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party.

William Michael "Mike" Hollands            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

William Michael "Mike" Hollands: is the creative director and founder of Melbourne based animation house Act3animation. His best known directorial work, the tragicomedy Pi

William Sage Rapson            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

William Sage Rapson: was a New Zealand and South African chemist.Rapson studied at Auckland University College as a Junior University Scholar, Senior University Scholar, Duffus Lubecki Scholar and lastly Sir George Grey Scholar. In 1933 he became lecturer in chemistry at the University College. The following year he went to study organic chemistry in Oxford with Professor (later Sir) Robert Robinson. He developed the Rapson-Robinson synthesis (steroids), while completing his thesis in 1935 at the age of 23. He was then appointed lecturer in organic chemistry at the University of Cape Town (1935 – 41).