William Phillips

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There have been a number of people named William Phillips:

• William Phillips (pirate) (16??-1724) was an English pirate.
• William Phillips (General) (1731-1781) was an Artilleryman and General Officer in the British Army who served as a Major General in the American Revolutionary War.
• William Phillips (geologist) (1775-1829) as a British mineralogist who the founded the Geological Society of London.
• William Phillips (Kansas) was a Kansas free-stater
• William Phillips (diplomat) was the first American ambassador to Canada
• William Phillips (baseball) was a Canadian baseball player
• William Phillips (economist) was a New Zealander known for the Phillips curve and Moniac hydraulic computer
• William D. Phillips is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, specializing in laser cooling of atoms.
• William Phillips (director) is a film director of movies such as Foolproof
• William Phillips (writer) was a writer, literary critic and founder of the Partisan Review.

See also

• Bill Phillips

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