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William Penn (24 October [O.S. 14 October] 1644 – 10 August [O.S. 30 July] 1718) was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era.
Jeremiah F. Evarts (February 3, 1781 – May 10, 1831), also known by the pen name William Penn, was a Christian missionary, reformer, and activist for the rights of American Indians in the United States, and a leading opponent of the Indian removal policy of the United States government.
John Penn ("the American") (1700–1746), son of William Penn; Springett Penn (I), the second son of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania; Springett Penn (II), son of William Penn Jr. and a grandson and heir of William Penn; William Penn Jr., son of William Penn; William Penn (Royal Navy officer), English admiral; Zak Penn, American screenwriter
Hannah Margaret Penn (née Callowhill; 11 February 1671 – 20 December 1726) was an Anglo-American governor. The second wife of Pennsylvania founder William Penn, she effectively administered the Province of Pennsylvania for six years after her husband suffered a series of strokes, and then for another eight years after her husband's death.
Gulielma Maria Posthuma Penn (née Springett; February 1644 – 23 February 1694) was the first wife of William Penn, the notable Quaker writer, religious thinker and founder of Pennsylvania. Early life
William Penn (athlete) (1883–1943), American tug-of-war competitor; William Evander Penn (1832–1895), Texas Baptist evangelist and minister; William S. Penn (born 1949), mixed-race Nez Perce author and English professor at Michigan State University; William F. Penn (1871–1934), black physician in Atlanta, Georgia; William Penn (pen name ...
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
William is related to the German given name Wilhelm. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic *Wiljahelmaz, with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name Vilhjalmr and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin Willelmus. The Proto-Germanic name is a compound of *wiljô "will, wish, desire" and *helmaz "helm, helmet". [3]