Famous People with Name Williams

Williams Enrique Reyes            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Williams Enrique Reyes: is a Honduran Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for A.D. Isidro Metapán.

Williams Guillermo Martínez Fracchia            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Williams Guillermo Martínez Fracchia: is an Uruguayan footballer, he plays for Defensor Sporting. He also spent part of the 2005-06 season on loan at FA Premier League club West Bromwich Albion from the Uruguayan club Defensor Sporting. He made his Uruguayan debut in the 2003 Lunar New Year Cup.

Frederick Ronald (Fred) Williams            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Frederick Ronald (Fred) Williams: was an Australian painter and printmaker. He was one of Australia’s most important artists, and one of the twentieth century’s major painters of the landscape. He had more than seventy solo exhibitions during his career in Australian galleries, as well as the exhibition Fred Williams - Landscapes of a Continent at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1977.Fred Williams was born in 1927 in Melbourne. From 1943 to 1947 he studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, at first part-time and then full-time from 1945 at the age of 16. The Gallery School was traditional and academic, with a long and prestigious history. He also began lessons under George Bell the following year, who had his own art school in Melbourne. This continued until 1950. Bell was a conservative modern artist but a very influential teacher.

Nicholas Jonathan Anselm Williams            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Nicholas Jonathan Anselm Williams: a leading expert on the Cornish language.Williams has written widely on the Celtic languages and their literatures. His works on Irish include the editions The Poems of Giolla Brighde Mac Con Midhe (1980) and Pairlement Chloinne Tomáis (1981); I bPrionta i Leabhar (1986), an account of Protestant writing in Irish during the seventeenth century; Díolaim Luibheanna (1993) a discussion of Irish plant names and plant lore; and Armas, a handbook of Irish heraldry in Irish, which he illustrated himself. He also was joint editor of Stair na Gaeilge (‘the History of Irish’, Maynooth, 1994) for which he contributed chapters on the Irish dialects of Leinster and on Manx.

Samuel Wells Williams            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Samuel Wells Williams: was a linguist, missionary and Sinologist from the United States in the early 19th century.On the June 15, 1833, and still in his twenties, he sailed for China to take charge of the printing press of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Guangdong, China. In 1837 he sailed on the Morrison to Japan. Officially this trip was to return some stranded Japanese sailors, but it was also an unsuccessful attempt to open Japan to American trade.On November 20, 1845 Williams married Sarah Walworth. From 1848 to 1851 Williams was the editor of The Chinese Repository, a leading Western journal published in China. In 1853 he was attached to Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's expedition to Japan as an official interpreter.

William Carlos Williams            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Carlos Williams: was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician," wrote biographer Linda Wagner-Martin. During

Waldo (Goronwy) Williams            Origin/Culture/Country: Welsh

Waldo (Goronwy) Williams: was one of the leading Welsh-language poets of the twentieth century. He was also a notable pacifist, anti-war campaigner and Welsh nationalist.Williams's poetry shows many influences from William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman to Welsh hymns and the strict