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William, Willie, Bill, or Billy Thomas may refer to: Actors and film professionals * Bill Thomas (actor) (born 1952), English actor * Bill Thomas (costume designer) (1921–2000), American costume designer * William C. Thomas (1903–1984), American film producer * William Thomas (actor) (), Welsh actor * William Thomas Jr. (1947–2020), American actor * William Thomas Jr. (child actor) or Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas (1931–1980), American actor Businesspeople * Bill Thomas (businessman) (born 1959), British business executive * William Bevil Thomas (1757–1825), Newfoundland merchant and land developer * William C. Thomas (1903–1984), American film producer * Sir William James Thomas, 1st Baronet (1867–1945), Welsh industrialist and philanthropist * William Winstead Thomas (1848–1904), American insurance company president and architect Clergypeople * Bill Thomas (priest) (born 1943), British Anglican archdeacon of Llandaff * William Thomas (antiquary) (1670–1738), Engli ...
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Bill Thomas (actor)
Bill Thomas (born 1952) is an English stage and screen actor. Career He was Tom Henshall in the BBC series ''Cutting It'' and Charles Quance in the classic BBC serial ''The House of Eliott'', had the lead role the feature film ''Weak at Denise'' and ''Syrup'' (which was nominated for an Academy Award for best short life action feature in 1994). A recent return to the stage saw him playing Ironside, in ''An English Tragedy'', a new play by Oscar-winning playwright Ronald Harwood. A generation of young adults know him as Mr Tucknott the pompous and long suffering bank manager in the classic ''Bodger and Badger'' series on BBCTV. His previous stage work includes the lead role in ''Dragon'' in the Olivier Theatre as a member of the Royal National Theatre, a remarkable and innovative production by the accomplished director Ulz, after working together at Nottingham Playhouse. He was Arturo UI in ''The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui'', directed by David Gilmore at the Nuffield Theatre, So ...
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William S
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ...
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Bill Thomas (Alaska Politician)
William A. Thomas Jr. (born June 1, 1947) is a businessman, commercial fisherman, and politician from the U.S. state of Alaska. Thomas served as a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives from the 5th District, comprising scattered rural and semi-rural communities throughout Southeast Alaska and stretching westward to Prince William Sound, from 2005 to 2013. Thomas served in the majority his entire tenure in the House and held multiple chairmanships. Thomas gained a seat on the powerful House Finance Committee during his second term and would eventually co-chair the committee. Following redistricting, Thomas lost reelection in 2012 by 32 votes to 23-year-old Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, a political newcomer who left Yale University to run. Early life William A. Thomas Jr. was born in Haines, Territory of Alaska on June 1, 1947, and is a lifelong resident of Haines and the surrounding Chilkat Valley. He is descended from the Tlingit Natives of nearby Klukwan vil ...
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Bill Thomas
William Marshall Thomas (born December 6, 1941) is an American politician. He was a California Republican Party, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 2007, finishing his tenure representing California's 22nd congressional district and as the Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, House Ways and Means Committee. Early life and family Thomas was born in Wallace, Idaho, moving with his parents to the Southern California area. He graduated from Garden Grove High School, attended Santa Ana College, earning an associate's degree before transferring to San Francisco State University, where he earned his bachelor's degree and master's degree in political science in 1963 and 1965, respectively. He became an instructor at Bakersfield College before running for and winning a seat in the California State Assembly in 1974. He won election to the House of Representatives in 1978, representing the California's 18th congressional district, ...
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William Waffle Thomas
William Waffle Thomas (December 29, 1919 – November 22, 2014) was an American Air Force officer who served as an Air Force One pilot for President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until 1961. The call sign of "Air Force One" was used after an Eastern Airline flight having the same call sign with Eisenhower's flight shared the same aerospace. Thomas personally consider it a benign incident. In 1968, he received the Legion of Merit, the nation's second highest award. In 1942, Thomas was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Force. During World War II, he served two years serving as a pilot in the China Burma India Theater. In 1948, he flew C-52s during the Berlin Airlift The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road .... In 1971, he retired as a colonel. References ...
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William Holland Thomas
William Holland Thomas (February 5, 1805 – May 10, 1893) was an American merchant and soldier. He was the son of Temperance Thomas (née Colvard) and Richard Thomas, who died before he was born. He was raised by his mother on Raccoon Creek outside present-day Waynesville, North Carolina. At the age of 13 he was apprenticed to Felix Walker's store and trading post. There he learned to speak Cherokee and was befriended and later adopted by the chief/headman of the local Cherokees, Yonaguska. He was later adopted into the tribe as a whole. Although it was later claimed by his daughter, Sarah Thomas Avery, that he was principal Chief after Yonaguska's death (in Sara Thomas Avery, "William Holland Thomas," ''North Carolina University Magazine'' May 1899), it has since been shown that he was not the Chief. Flying Squirrel aka Saunooke was, in fact, the head Chief of the Qualla Cherokee (later known as the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians). Thomas became a successful mercha ...
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William H
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ...
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William Garfield Thomas Jr
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ...
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William Bain Thomas
Brigadier William Bain Thomas CBE DSO (11 May 1898 – 22 November 1967) was a British Army officer who commanded the Polish Resettlement Corps after the Second World War. Military career Thomas was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) on 7 April 1916, during the First World War (1914–1918). He served on the Western Front from March 1917 until he was wounded in March 1918. He remained in the army after the war, during the interwar period, and was posted to India with the 2nd Battalion of the regiment, where he saw action in Kurdistan in 1923 and served as Adjutant, Auxiliary Force India between 1927 and 1930. Thomas then had postings in Egypt and saw active service in the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine. He was promoted to major on 1 August 1938. In 1940, during the Second World War (1939–1945), Thomas was second-in-command (2IC), 1st Battalion, Cameronians in India, before bec ...
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William Ap Thomas
Sir William ap Thomas (died 1445) was a Welsh nobleman, politician, knight, and courtier. He was a member of the Welsh gentry family that came to be known as the Herbert family through his son William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (8th creation) and is the agnatic ancestor, via an illegitimate descendant of the 1st Earl of the 8th creation, of the current Herbert family of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, and also of the Herbert Earl of Carnarvon. Raglan manor, attained through marriage through heiress Elizabeth Bluet, was greatly expanded by William and his son, William Herbert, into the well-fortified Raglan Castle, one of the finest late medieval Welsh castles. William served King Henry V of England during his first French campaign and in numerous subsequent capacities and was knighted in 1426. Early life William ap Thomas was the son of Sir Thomas ap Gwyllym, Knt (d. 1438) of Perth Hir (see Clytha Park) and Maud Morley, daughter and co-heir of Sir John Morley of ...
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William Moy Thomas
William Moy Thomas (1828–1910) was an English journalist, literary editor and novelist. Life Born in Hackney, Middlesex, on 3 January 1828, he was younger son of Moy Thomas, a solicitor who was known as a legal writer with his brother John Henry Thomas. He became private secretary to Charles Wentworth Dilke; and in 1850 he was introduced by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd to Charles Dickens, who engaged him the following year as a writer on '' Household Words'', where he contributed until 1858. In 1866-7 Thomas was London correspondent of the New York ''Round Table'', under the signature "Q", and in 1868 he joined the staff of the '' Daily News'', writing the weekly article ''In the Recess'' and the drama criticism. He was the first editor of ''Cassell's Magazine'', in which appeared ''A Fight for Life'' (3 vols. 1868), a novel that was dramatised. He was honorary secretary of the Authors' Protection Society (1873), and lobbied for the Royal Commission on copyright, which reported i ...
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William Hannibal Thomas
William Hannibal Thomas (4 May 1843 – 15 November 1935) was an American teacher, journalist, judge, writer and legislator. He battled racism throughout his life, including the riots at Otterbein University, which was a major force leading to his withdrawal. In 1861, he was rejected entry from the Union's Army until 1863 when he served, and was wounded by gunshot, leading to the amputation of his right arm. He published "Land and Education," in 1890, promoting avenues for Black people to obtain land and largely criticizing white people for troubles brought onto Black people. He garnered heavy attention from the Black community when he published his most famous work, ''The American Negro,'' which took a large conceptual leap from his earlier work, shifting failures of the Black community onto themselves. Biography Early life William Hannibal Thomas was born in Pickaway County, Ohio. His family had been formerly enslaved, although Thomas insisted that "most of his ancestors were ...
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