William F. Sharpe won The Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990.
William Golding won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983.
William Randal Cremer won The Nobel Peace Prize in 1903.
Sir William Ramsay won The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904.
Theodore William Richards won The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1914.
Francis William Aston won The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1922.
William Francis Giauque won The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1949.
William H. Stein won The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972.
William N. Lipscomb won The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1976.
William Alfred Fowler won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984.
William D. Phillips won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998.
William S. Knowles won The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1990 was awarded jointly to Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller and William F. Sharpe for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics.