Sam Williams may refer to:
Sports
American football
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Sam Williams (defensive back) (born 1952), American football player
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Sam Williams (defensive lineman) (1931–2013), Detroit Lions football player of the 1960s
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Sam Williams (linebacker)
Samuel Jerry Williams (born July 28, 1980) is a former American football linebacker. He played for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League from 2003 to 2011. He was drafted by the Raiders in the third round of the 2003 NFL Draft. H ...
(born 1980), American football linebacker
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Sam Williams (defensive end, born 1999)
Samuel Degarrick Williams (born March 31, 1999) is an American football defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Northeast Mississippi Community College before transferring to ...
, American football player
Basketball
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Sam Williams (basketball, born 1924) (1924–2012), American college basketball coach
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Sam Williams (basketball, born 1945)
Samuel H. Williams (born January 22, 1945) is an American former professional basketball player who played for the National Basketball Association’s Milwaukee Bucks from 1968 until 1970.
Career
Williams attended Northern High School in Detro ...
, American basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks
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Sam Williams (basketball, born 1959)
Samuel Keith Williams (born March 7, 1959) is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played four seasons in the NBA from 1981 through 1985 with the Golden State Warriors and the Philadel ...
, American basketball player for the Golden State Warriors and Philadelphis 76ers
Other sports
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Sam Williams (soccer) (born 2005), American soccer player
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Sam Williams (rugby league) (born 1991), Australian rugby league footballer
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Sam Williams (footballer) (born 1987), English Association footballer
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Sam Williams (baseball)
Samuel Clarence Williams (October 13, 1922 – August 8, 2007) was an American Negro league pitcher between 1947 and 1952.
A native of Ketona, Alabama, Williams served in the United States Army during World War II. He made his Negro lea ...
(1922–2007), American Negro leagues baseball player
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Sam Williams (rugby union) (1862–?), rugby union footballer
Other
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Sam Williams (journalist)
Sam Williams (born 1969) is an American journalist. He is perhaps best known as the author of a biography of software programmer Richard Stallman, '' Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software'' (2002). Prior to beginni ...
(born 1969), American journalist
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Sam Williams (record producer), Supergrass producer and member of The Animalhouse
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Sam B. Williams Sam Barlow Williams (7 May 1921 in Seattle, Washington – 22 June 2009 in Indian Wells, California) was an American inventor and founder of Williams International. He was best known for his development of the small fan-jet engine, and received sev ...
(1921–2009), American inventor
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Big Sam (musician) (Sam Williams), trombonist and band leader from New Orleans
See also
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Samuel Williams (disambiguation) Samuel Williams may refer to:
Politics
* Samuel Crowdson Williams (1812–1862), American politician, businessman, and soldier in Virginia
* Samuel L. Williams (1933–1994), president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners
* Samuel May ...
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Sammy Williams (1948–2018), American actor
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Sammy Williams (American football) (born 1974), American football offensive lineman
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