Famous People with Name Bill

Bill Ritter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bill Ritter: is an emmy award winning American television news anchor and journalist. He currently co-anchors the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. editions of Eyewitness News on WABC-TV in New York City with Liz Cho, in addition to being a reporter for the ABC News magazine program 20/20. Ritter replaced longtime WABC anchor Bill Beutel on the 11 p.m. newscast in 1999, and on the 6 p.m. newscast in 2001 with Diana Williams. Prior to that, he was a weekend anchor from 1998 to 1999, after serving as a co-anchor on ABC's Good Morning America Sunday from 1993 to 1998. During his tenure on Good Morning America Sunday, he filled in for Charles Gibson on Good Morning America.

Bill Wendt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bill Wendt: was an American college men's basketball coach. He was the head coach of the DePaul University from 1940 to 1942, guiding them to a 23-20 record. Wendt had played at DePaul during the late 1930s and had a brief professional playing career with the NBL's Hammond Ciesar All-Americans.

Bill Walsh            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bill Walsh: was a film producer and screenwriter who primarily worked on live-action films for Walt Disney Productions. He was born in New York City.

Bill Pinkney            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bill Pinkney: was an American performer and singer. Pinkney is often incorrectly said to be the last surviving original member of The Drifters, who achieved international fame with numerous hit records. This is technically untrue, as he was not a member of the original lineup of the group. He did, however, join the group at an early stage, before it achieved great fame. He was chiefly responsible for its sound throughout the decades. The Drifters have had a strong influence on soul, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll music.

Bill Graham            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bill Graham: was an American impresario and rock concert promoter from the 1960s until his death.Graham was born Wolfgang Grajonca in Berlin, the youngest son of a lower-middle-class Jewish family that had emigrated from Russia prior to the rise of Nazism.[1][2] Graham's father died two days after Graham's birth.[3] Graham's mother placed Graham and his younger sister in an orphanage in Berlin, as it became increasingly difficult for Jews to survive in Nazi Germany. This turned out to be fortunate, as the orphanage sent them to France in a pre–Holocaust exchange of Jewish children for Christian orphans.

Karen Bill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Karen Bill: a multi-sports star who has participated in the Olympic Games' trials. She had a career, from 1999 to 2002, as a female boxer.On May 7, 1999, she made her professional boxing career debut, when she lost by knockout in round three to Carmen Dominguez Paris at Lawton. She was not supposed to fight that night; she had bought a ticket and gone to see the fight undercard as a fan, but the boxer that was due to fight Dominguez did not show up, and Bill offered to fight her instead. Next, she lost to Kisha Snow, also by knockout but in four rounds, in a fight held at Tunica, Mississippi, on September 2.

Caleb Rand Bill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Caleb Rand Bill: was a member of the Canadian Senate.He represented Kings County from 1855 to 1859 and the northern region of Kings County from 1863 to 1867 in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. A Liberal-Conservative, he was appointed to the Senate on 23 October 1867 by a royal proclamation of Queen Victoria following Canadian Confederation earlier that year. He represented the senatorial division of Nova Scotia until his death. He was also governor for Acadia College, president of the county agricultural society and a member of the school commission.