William Lee
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Miscellaneous
- William Lee (bishop of Clifton)William Lee (bishop of Clifton)William Lee was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Clifton from 1931 to 1948....
(1875–1948), Roman Catholic bishop - William Lee (bishop of Waterford and Lismore) (born 1941), Roman Catholic bishop
- William Lee (captain)William Lee (Captain)William Lee was a ship's captain born in Austerfield, Yorkshire, England.-Time line:*Birth March 15, 1741 Austerfield, England, United Kingdom*Baptism 8/24/1744 Austerfield, England, United Kingdom...
, colonial writer and ship's captain - William Lee (civil engineer)William Lee (civil engineer)William Lee was an English civil and sanitary engineer. He is now best known in his role as biographer and bibliographer of Daniel Defoe.-Life:He was born in Sheffield, and became Surveyor of Highways...
(1812–1891), English bibliographer of Daniel Defoe - William Lee (English judge) (1688–1754), British judge and MP for Wycombe
- William Lee (inventor)William Lee (inventor)William Lee was an English inventor who devised the first stocking frame knitting machine in 1589, the only one in use for centuries. Its principle of operation remains in use....
(c.1563–1614), inventor of the stocking frameStocking frameA stocking frame was a mechanical knitting machine used in the textiles industry. It was invented by William Lee of Calverton near Nottingham in 1589... - William Lee (valet)William Lee (valet)William Lee , also known as Billy Lee or Will Lee, was George Washington's personal servant and the only one of Washington's slaves freed outright by Washington in his will...
(c.1750–1828), George Washington's personal servant - William C. LeeWilliam C. LeeMajor General William Carey "Bill" Lee was an American U.S. Army soldier and general. Lee is often referred to as the "Father of the U.S. Airborne".-Biography:...
(1895–1948), American Army soldier and general - William Charles LeeWilliam Charles LeeWilliam Charles Lee is a United States federal judge.Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Lee received an A.B. from Yale University in 1959 and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1962. He was in private practice in Fort Wayne, Indiana from 1962 to 1970. He was a Deputy prosecuting...
(born 1938), U.S. federal judge - William H. Lee (architect) (1884-1971), American architect
- William Henry LeeWilliam Henry LeeWilliam Henry Lee was a Canadian civil servant and the first Clerk of the Privy Council of Canada.Born in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada , he was educated in Montreal. In 1821, he became an extra clerk for the Executive Council of Upper Canada. From 1867 to 1872, he was the clerk of the Privy Council...
(1799–1878), Canadian civil servant - Bill Lann LeeBill Lann LeeBill Lann Lee is a Chinese American civil rights lawyer who served as Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division under President Bill Clinton....
, Chinese-American civil rights lawyer
Politics
- William Lee (Australian politician)William Lee (Australian politician)William Lee also variously known as William Smith and William Pantoney until 1816 was an Australian pastoralist and politician...
New South Wales politician - William Lee (diplomat)William Lee (diplomat)William Lee was an American diplomat during the Revolutionary War.-Background:He was born at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia to Hon. Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison Ludwell...
(1739–1795), American diplomat - William Lee (mayor) (1822–1906), mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota, 1870–1872
- William Lee (1545-1637), five times mayor of AbingdonAbingdon, OxfordshireAbingdon or archaically Abingdon-on-Thames is a market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England. It is the seat of the Vale of White Horse district. Previously the county town of Berkshire, Abingdon is one of several places that claim to be Britain's oldest continuously occupied town, with...
: his family tree of 197 descendants hangs in St Helen's Church, AbingdonSt Helen's Church, AbingdonSt Helen's Church is the parish church in the town of Abingdon on the banks of the River Thames in Oxfordshire , England.... - William Lee (1801-1881)William Lee (1801-1881)William Lee was an English cement merchant and Whig and later Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1853 and 1870....
, British Member of Parliament for Maidstone, 1853–1857 and 1859–1870 - William Lee (1726-1778), British Member of Parliament for ApplebyAppleby (UK Parliament constituency)Appleby was a parliamentary constituency in the former county of Westmorland in England. It existed for two separate periods: from 1295 to 1832, and from 1885 to 1918....
, 1754–1756 - William Henry Fitzhugh LeeWilliam Henry Fitzhugh LeeWilliam Henry Fitzhugh Lee , known as Rooney Lee or W.H.F. Lee, was the second son of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Randolph Custis. He was a planter, a Confederate cavalry General in the American Civil War, and later a member of the U.S. Congress.-Early life:Lee was born at Arlington House in...
(1837–1891), Confederate Army general and US congressman - William Little LeeWilliam Little LeeWilliam Little Lee was an American lawyer who became the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for the Kingdom of Hawaii.-Life:...
(1821-1857), first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for the Kingdom of Hawaii - William Swain LeeWilliam Swain LeeWilliam Swain Lee is an American lawyer and politician from Georgetown, in Sussex County, Delaware. He is a member of the Republican Party, who served as a judge of the Delaware Superior Court. He was the 2004 and 2008 Republican candidate for Governor of Delaware.-Early life and family:Lee was...
(born 1935), American lawyer and politician
Education
- William Franklin Lee IIIWilliam Franklin Lee IIIWilliam Franklin Lee III, aka Bill Lee was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, author, and music educator who was renowned for pioneering comprehensive music education, including jazz, at the collegiate level of a full liberal arts university...
, pianist, former Dean of the University of Miami School of Music
Entertainment and literature
- William Harold LeeWilliam Harold LeeWilliam Harold Lee was an American 20th century movie theater designer and later the chief architect for Eastern College...
(1884–1971), American theater designer and architect - Will LeeWill LeeWill Lee was an American actor best known for playing the store proprietor Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street, from the show's debut in 1969 until his death in 1982.-Early career:...
(1908–1982), American actor - William S. BurroughsWilliam S. BurroughsWilliam Seward Burroughs II was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th...
(1914–1997), American novelist and essayist, who used 'Bill Lee' as a pen name and for several characters - Bill Lee (singer)Bill Lee (singer)Bill Lee was an American playback singer who provided a voice or singing voice in many films, for actors in musicals and for many Disney characters. He was born in Johnson, Nebraska and died in 1980 in Los Angeles, California, of a brain tumor.Lee was part of a popular singing quartet known as The...
(1916–1980), American singer who voiced many Disney characters - Bill Lee (musician)Bill Lee (musician)William James Edwards "Bill" Lee III is an American musician. He has played the bass for many artists including Cat Stevens, Harry Belafonte, Chad Mitchell Trio, Gordon Lightfoot, Aretha Franklin, Odetta, Simon and Garfunkel, and Bob Dylan...
(born 1928), American jazz musician and composer - Billy LeeBilly LeeBilly Lee was a child actor who appeared in many films from the mid 1930s through the early 1940s.-Biography:...
(1929–1989), actor - Will Lee (bassist)Will Lee (bassist)Will Lee aka William Franklin Lee IV is an American musician and bassist, best known for his work on the CBS television program The Late Show with David Letterman as part of the CBS Orchestra....
, aka William Franklin Lee IV (born 1952), American musician and bassist - Bill Lee (author)Bill Lee (author)Bill Lee is a Chinese American and a former member of the San Francisco Chinatown gang that was responsible for the 1977 Golden Dragon Massacre....
(born 1954), Chinese-American writer and ex-gang member - Will Yun LeeWill Yun LeeWill Yun Lee is an Korean American actor.He is best known for his roles on TNT's supernatural drama series Witchblade as Danny Woo and as Jae Kim on NBC's science fiction television drama Bionic Woman...
(born 1971), American actor - William Gregory LeeWilliam Gregory LeeWilliam Gregory Lee is an American actor.His first prominent role was as Virgil on Xena: Warrior Princess...
(born 1973), American actor
Sports
- Bill Lee (American football)Bill Lee (American football)William E. Lee, Sr. was an American football player....
(1911-1998), American football player - Bill Lee (left-handed pitcher)Bill Lee (left-handed pitcher)William Francis Lee III , nicknamed "Spaceman", is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Boston Red Sox from - and the Montreal Expos from -...
(born 1946), American baseball pitcher [aka Spaceman] - Bill Lee (right-handed pitcher)Bill Lee (right-handed pitcher)William Crutcher "Big Bill" Lee was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1934 through 1947 for the Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, and Boston Braves....
(1909-1977), American baseball pitcher - Bill Lee (yacht designer)Bill Lee (yacht designer)Bill Lee is the designer of many famous ocean racing yachts, and one of the founders of the Santa Cruz school of boatbuilding, known to many as the Wizard. Several of his designs achieved notoriety in the 1970s, with Chutzpah and Merlin having won the Transpacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles to...
, designer of Merlin 70' Santa Cruz ULDB - Billy Lee (baseball)Billy Lee (baseball)William Joseph "Billy" Lee was an American Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the St. Louis Browns in and .-External links:*...
(1894–1984), American baseball outfielder - Billy Lee (footballer)Billy Lee (footballer)William Lee , better known as Billy Lee, was an English footballer who played as a centre-forward.- Biography :...
(1878–1934), English footballer - William "Caveman" LeeWilliam "Caveman" LeeWilliam Lee is a former professional middleweight boxer who fought out of the fabled Kronk Gym in Detroit.-Career:...
(born 1956), American middleweight boxer
Business
- William F. LeeWilliam F. LeeWilliam F. Lee is a lawyer, presently co-managing partner of the international law firm of WilmerHale, which was formed from the merger of Wilmer Cutler and Hale and Dorr. He is the first Asian-American to lead a major American law firm....
, Co-Managing Partner of WilmerHale - William Ellsworth LeeWilliam Ellsworth LeeWilliam Ellsworth Lee -Biography:The brother of Thomas Peter Lee, was born in Petroleum, West Virginia on January 31, 1867. At a very early age, he began working in the oil fields and spent six years with the U. S. Oil Company in West Virginia, before moving to Ohio and then following his brother...
(1867–1936), American oil businessman and financier - William States Lee IIIWilliam States Lee IIIWilliam States Lee III, popularly known as Bill Lee, was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1929. He attended Woodberry Forest School and was a Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University in Civil Engineering. After serving in the U.S. Navy SeaBees, Lee joined Duke Power’s...
, ex-Chairman of the Board of Duke Power
Fiction
- Billy Lee, character in video game series Double Dragon
- Bill Lee (Stargate), fictional character in the television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis