William, Bill, Billy, or Willie Riley may refer to:
Sports
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William Riley (Nottinghamshire cricketer) (1888–1917)
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William Riley (Leicestershire cricketer) (1892–1955)
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Bill Riley (ice hockey, born 1921)
William J. Riley (October 6, 1921 in Medford, Massachusetts – February 16, 2000) was an ice hockey player. Riley helped lead Dartmouth College to two Frozen Fours during his career. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in ...
(1921–2000), American ice hockey player
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Bill Riley (ice hockey, born 1950), Canadian ice hockey player
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Bill Riley Jr., American ice hockey player and coach
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Billy Riley
Billy Riley (22 June 1896 – 27 August 1977) was an English practitioner and teacher of catch wrestling. As a trainer in the sport, he taught some of the leading post-World War II figures in catch wrestling at his training school "The Sna ...
(1889–1977), wrestler
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Billy Riley (baseball)
William James Riley (1855–1887), nicknamed "Pigtail Billy", was an outfielder in Major League Baseball. He played for the 1875 Keokuk Westerns
The Western baseball club of Keokuk, Iowa, or Keokuk Westerns in modern nomenclature, was a professi ...
(1855–1887), outfielder in Major League Baseball
Arts and entertainment
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Willie Riley
William Riley (23 April 1866 – 4 June 1961) was an English novelist. He was born in Laisterdyke, Bradford. He wrote 39 books using the name W. Riley, mostly fiction and mostly published by Herbert Jenkins Ltd.
After an education at Bradf ...
(1866–1961), British author
*William K. Riley, one of the pen names of British author
John Creasey
John Creasey (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) was an English crime writer, also writing science fiction, romance and western novels, who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms.
He created several charac ...
(1908–1973)
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Bill Riley Sr. (1920–2006), American entertainer
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Billy Lee Riley
Billy Lee Riley (October 5, 1933 – August 2, 2009) was an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. His most memorable recordings include "Rock With Me Baby", "Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll"Variously spelled as "...Rock & Roll ...
(1933–2009), American musician
Other
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William Riley (architect) (1852–1937), British architect
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William J. Riley (born 1947), United States federal judge
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William F. Riley (judge) (1884–1956), United States federal judge
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William F. Riley (engineer), American engineer and professor
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William Harrison Riley
William Harrison Riley (c.1835–1907) was an early British socialist.
Riley was born in Manchester, his father being the manager of a cloth printing factory and Methodist preacher.Edward Carpenter, ''Sketches from Life in Town and Country and ...
(1835–1907), British socialist
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William Bell Riley
William Bell Riley (March 22, 1861 in Greene County, Indiana, USA – December 5, 1947 in Golden Valley, Minnesota) was an American Baptist evangelical Christian pastor.
Biography
In 1878, at the age of 17, Riley publicly professed faith in Ch ...
(1861–1947), American religious leader
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William Riley (criminal), a.k.a. "Mush" Riley, American saloon keeper and underworld figure
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William E. Riley (1897–1970), American general
See also
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Riley (surname)
Riley is a surname of English or Irish origin.
The English version has the meaning " rye clearing", or is from a place name of which there is more than one occurrence; locations include Lancashire (specifically High Riley in Accrington) and Devo ...
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William O'Reilly (disambiguation)
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