Bill(s) may refer to:

Common meanings

Banknote A banknote—also called a bill (North American English), paper money, or simply a note—is a type of negotiable promissory note, made by a bank or other licensed authority, payable to the bearer on demand. Banknotes were originally issued ...

, paper cash (especially in the United States) *

Bill (law) A bill is proposed legislation under consideration by a legislature. A bill does not become law until it is passed by the legislature as well as, in most cases, approved by the executive. Once a bill has been enacted into law, it is called an '' ...

, a proposed law put before a legislature *

Invoice An invoice, bill or tab is a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer relating to a sale transaction and indicating the products, quantities, and agreed-upon prices for products or services the seller had provided the buyer. Payment ...

, commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer * Bill, a bird or animal's

beak The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals. A beak is used for eating, preening, manipulating objects, killing prey, fighting, probing for foo ...

Places

* Bill, Wyoming, an unincorporated community, United States * Billstown, Arkansas, an unincorporated community, United States *

Billville, Indiana Billville is an unincorporated community in Posey Township, Clay County, Indiana. It is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Billville is located at , and is a Tractor Supply Company planned community A plann ...

, an unincorporated community, United States

People

Bill (given name) Bill is a masculine given name, generally a short form (hypocorism) of William. It can also be used as the adaptation into English of the popular Greek name Vasilis or Vasileios (Basil), especially amongst Greek immigrants in English-speaking countr ...

* Bill (surname) * Bill (footballer, born 1978), ''Alessandro Faria'', Togolese football forward * Bill (footballer, born 1984), ''Rosimar Amâncio'', a Brazilian football forward * Bill (footballer, born 1999), ''Fabricio Rodrigues da Silva Ferreira'', a Brazilian forward

Arts, media, and entertainment

Characters

* Bill (''Kill Bill''), a character in the ''Kill Bill'' films * William “Bill“ S. Preston, Esquire, The first of the titular duo of the Bill & Ted film series * A lizard in Lewis Carroll's ''

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (commonly ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll. It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creature ...

'' * A locomotive with a twin called, Ben in ''

The Railway Series ''The Railway Series'' is a series of British books about a railway known as the North Western Railway, located on the fictional Island of Sodor. There are 42 books in the series, the first published in May 1945 by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry. Tw ...

'' and ''

Thomas & Friends ''Thomas & Friends'' (originally known as ''Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends'' and later ''Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!'') is a British children's television series that aired across 24 series from 1984 to 2021. Based on ''The ...

'' * Bill the Cat, a ''Bloom County'' character * Bill Cipher, a demon in ''Gravity Falls'' * Bill the Pony and his previous owner Bill Ferny in the novel ''The Lord of the Rings'' * Bill Potts (''Doctor Who''), a female companion of the twelfth Doctor in ''Doctor Who'' * Bill Sikes, main antagonist from ''Oliver Twist'' *

Mr. Bill Mr. Bill is a clay figurine star of a parody of children's clay animation shows created by Walter Williams in 1974. "The Mr. Bill Show" got its start on ''Saturday Night Live'' as a series of Super 8 films sent in in response to the show's request ...

, a claymation character on ''Saturday Night Live'' * Sour Bill, a character from ''

Wreck-It Ralph ''Wreck-It Ralph'' is a 2012 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 52nd Disney animated feature film, it was directed by Rich Moore (in his feature director ...

'' *Bill Kerman, fictional character in the computer game '' Kerbal Space Program''

Films

* ''Bill'' (1981 film), a 1981 TV film starring Mickey Rooney ** '' Bill: On His Own'', 1983 sequel to the 1981 film * ''Bill'' (2015 film), an adventure-comedy film about Shakespeare from the cast of ''Horrible Histories'' * ''Bill, the Galactic Hero'' (film), 2014 science student fiction film based on the 1965 Harry Harrison novel * '' Meet Bill'', a 2007 comedy film formerly known as ''Bill'' * ''

The Bill ''The Bill'' is a British police procedural television series, first broadcast on ITV from 16 August 1983 until 31 August 2010. The programme originated from a one-off drama, '' Woodentop'', broadcast in August 1983. The programme focused o ...

'', a long-running British police TV drama series

Music

Albums

* ''Bill'' (Bill Cosby album), 1973 * ''Bill'' (Bill Anderson album), 1973 * ''Bill'' (Tripping Daisy album), 1992

Songs

* "Bill" (song), a song from the 1927 musical ''Show Boat'' * "Bills" (song), a 2015 by LunchMoney Lewis * "

Bills, Bills, Bills "Bills, Bills, Bills" is a song by American group Destiny's Child from their second studio album, ''The Writing's on the Wall'' (1999). It was written by Beyoncé Knowles, LeToya Luckett, Kelly Rowland, Kandi Burruss of Xscape, and Kevin "She'k ...

", a 1999 song by Destiny's Child * "Bill", a 1996 song by

Peggy Scott-Adams Peggy Scott-Adams (born Peggy Stoutmeyer, June 25, 1948) is an American blues and R&B singer. She is sometimes known by her former name of Peggy Scott, and billed as "The Little Lady with the Big Voice". Early life and career Peggy Stoutmeyer ...

* "Bills", a 1960 song by Louis Jordan * "Bills", a 1962 song by

Denny Denson Willie Denson (23 November 1936 in Columbus, Georgia – 1 July 2006) was an American songwriter, most notably for the Shirelles, and a singer under the name Denny Denson. He wrote or co-wrote with Luther Dixon five songs for the Shirelles, i ...

* "The Bills", a 1997 piano composition by

Carter Pann Carter Pann (born February 21, 1972 in La Grange, Illinois) is an American composer. He studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. His ...

Printed media

* ''

Bill, the Galactic Hero ''Bill, the Galactic Hero'' is a satirical science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison, first published in 1965. A novella length version appeared in the magazine '' Galaxy Science Fiction'' in 1964 under the name "The Starsloggers". ...

'', a 1965 science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison * ''

Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains ''Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains'' (BtGH:PoBB) is a novel by Harry Harrison and Robert Sheckley, published in 1990. Development PoBB is one of the novels in the ''Bill the Galactic Hero'' series, and the first which w ...

'', a 1990 novel by Harry Harrison and Robert Sheckley * " Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster", an 1898 sketch story by Australian writer Henry Lawson * "The Bill" (short story), a 2013 short story by Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai

Television

, a British police procedural television series * The Bill (''Inside No. 9''), an episode of the British television series ''Inside No. 9.''

Weapons

Bill (weapon) A bill is a class of agricultural implement used for trimming tree limbs, which was often repurposed for use as an infantry polearm. In English, the term 'Italian bill' is applied to the similar roncone or roncola, but the Italian version tende ...

, a weapon similar to a halberd * BILL Anti-tank guided weapon, a Swedish anti-tank weapon ** BILL 2 Anti-tank guided weapon, a Swedish anti-tank weapon

Other uses

* Bill (United States Congress) *

Bill the Goat Bill the Goat is the mascot of the United States Naval Academy. The mascot is a live goat and is also represented by a costumed midshipman. There is also a bronze statue of the goat in the north end zone of Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadi ...

, the mascot of the US Naval Academy * The Bill (band) * Bills (subculture), a Congolese youth subculture in the late 1950s, idolising cowboy Western movies *

Bill's Bill's is a British restaurant and bar chain, founded by Bill Collison in 2001 when he opened a small greengrocery in Lewes, East Sussex. As of January 2020, there are 78 branches in the UK, down from 81 in September 2018. With home deliverie ...

, a British restaurant chain * Buffalo Bills, an American NFL football team *

Tropical Storm Bill The name Bill has been used for five tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean. * Hurricane Bill (1997), threatened Bermuda, but passed the island without incident * Tropical Storm Bill (2003), made landfall west of New Orleans killing four and causin ...

, a list of storms