• Bill Gates (William Henry Gates III, born 1955) is the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation

Bill or William Gates is also the name of:

• William Henry Gates, Sr, (born 1925) philanthropist and father of Bill Gates III
• Bill Gates (frontiersman), known as Swiftwater (died 1935) of the Klondike Gold Rush
• William Jeremiah Gates (born 1947), American canoer, see Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics - Men's C-2 1000 metres
• William 'Pop' Gates (1917-1999), basketball player
• William Gates (b. ca. 1972), protagonist from the 1994 movie Hoop Dreams
• William Thomas George Gates (1908-1990), British banker
• William E. Gates (1863–1940), linguist and archaeologist
• William E. Gates, publisher of Midnight Engineering computer magazine
• Julius William Gates, (born 1941), eighth Sergeant Major of the Army

In fiction:

• William "Bill" Gates, a character in the video game Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven

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