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Bill Nunn III was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Frances Nunn and William G. Nunn, Jr., a journalist and editor at the Pittsburgh Courier and a National Football League scout. [1] [2] His paternal grandfather was the first African American football player at George Westinghouse High School. [3]
Iowa inventor William G. Dunn (1883–1968) originally owned a hardware business in Clarinda, Iowa.With the start of World War I, Dunn created the Dunn Counterbalance Company that operated out of the hardware store until he built a factory in Clarinda and renamed his company the Dunn Manufacturing Company. [2]
William Goldwyn Nunn Jr. (September 30, 1924 – May 6, 2014) was an American sportswriter, newspaper editor and football scout for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League (NFL) and is a 2021 member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Due to the fame of his son, actor William G. Nunn III, he was also known as Bill Nunn Sr.
James Douglas Grant Dunn FBA (21 October 1939 – 26 June 2020), [7] also known as Jimmy Dunn, was a British New Testament scholar, who was for many years the Lightfoot Professor of Divinity in the Department of Theology at the University of Durham.
William N. Dunn, American professor of international relations at the University of Pittsburgh; William R. Dunn (actor) (1888–1946), American film actor and writer; William R. Dunn (aviator) (1916–1995), American World War II fighter pilot; Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, chair at the University of Cambridge (created 1914)
Sir William Dunn, 1st Baronet, MP JP FRGS (22 September 1833 – 31 March 1912), was a London banker, merchant and philanthropist, Liberal Member of Parliament for Paisley (1891–1906), and from before 1896 until the outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899 consul general for the Orange Free State in the United Kingdom.
William R. Dunn (May 23, 1888 – March 24, 1946) was an American actor on film and stage and in vaudeville. Dunn was born in Astoria, Long Island, the son of William R. Dunn, a ferry captain, and Martha Wentz. He had two brothers, Eddie and Stanley, who were also actors. He graduated from public schools there. [2]
Lieutenant Colonel William Robert "Poppy" Dunn (November 16, 1916 – February 14, 1995) was the first American flying ace of World War II.Joining the Canadian Army at the outbreak of war in 1939, he was an infantryman until he transferred to the Royal Air Force (RAF) in late 1940.