William Stanley or Bill Stanley is the name of:
Politicians and noblemen
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William Stanley, 3rd Baron Monteagle (1528–1581), English politician, MP for Lancashire
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William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby (1561–1642), English politician
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William Stanley, 9th Earl of Derby (c. 1655 – 1702), English politician
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William Stanley (MP for Southampton) (1610–1678), English merchant and politician
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William Stanley (1640–1670) William Stanley (18 October 1640 – 25 October 1670) of Knowsley, Lancashire was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1670.
Stanley was the 3rd surviving son of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby and educated privatel ...
, English politician, MP for Liverpool
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William Owen Stanley (1802–1884), British MP and Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey
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William Eugene Stanley (1844–1910), American politician, Governor of Kansas
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William Stillman Stanley Jr. (1838–?), Wisconsin jeweler and legislator
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Bill Stanley (politician)
William M. Stanley Jr. (born July 21, 1967) is an American politician. A Republican, he was elected in 2011 to the Senate of Virginia for the 20th district. The 20th district includes the cities of Galax and Martinsville, Henry and Patrick coun ...
(William M. Stanley Jr., born 1967), American politician
Military figures
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William Stanley (died 1495), English leader in the Wars of the Roses
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William Stanley (born 1548), English officer under Elizabeth I
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William A. Stanley
William A. Stanley (born 1831, date of death unknown) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay.
Born in 1831 i ...
(1831–?), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
Other people
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William Stanley (composer)
William Stanley (1820–1902) was an English-born Australian classical music composer, conductor and performer.
Early life
Stanley was born in Egham, near Windsor, England, the son of William Sexton (organist), William Sexton and Ann Stanley. Se ...
(1820–1902), English-born Australian classical music composer
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William Stanley (inventor) (1829–1909), British architect and inventor
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William Stanley (priest) (1647–1731), English churchman and college head
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William Stanley (Hawaii judge)
William Frederick L. Stanley (1872–1939) was an Irish lawyer who served as judge of the Republic of Hawaii.
Life
Stanley was born in Dublin, Ireland in March 1872. His father was James Charles Stanley and mother was Catherine Lucas. After com ...
(1872–1939), Irish lawyer and judge of the Republic of Hawaii
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William Stanley (football manager), British footballer and first manager of Coventry City F.C.
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William O. Stanley (William Oliver Stanley, Jr., fl. 1930s), American professor
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William Stanley Jr.
William Stanley Jr. (November 28, 1858 – May 14, 1916) was an American physicist born in Brooklyn, New York. During his career, he obtained 129 patents covering a variety of electric devices. In 1913, he also patented an all-steel vacuum bot ...
(1858–1916), American physicist
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Bill Stanley (American football)
Bill Stanley was an American college football coach. He served as the head football coach at the First District Agricultural School of Jonesboro, Arkansas—now known as Arkansas State University
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the ...
(fl. 1924)
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Bill Stanley (mammalogist)
William T. Stanley (c. 1957 October 6, 2015) was an American mammalogist who was a manager of the collections at one of the world's largest natural history museums and a student of the mammals of eastern Africa. He was an evolutionary biologist and ...
(William T. Stanley, c. 1957 – 2015)
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