William Shakespeare | William Laud | Thomas Jefferson | William Blake | William | Thomas Edison | William III of England | William Morris | William McKinley | William Howard Taft | William Ewart Gladstone | William the Conqueror | William S. Burroughs | Thomas | William Shatner | William Faulkner | William Randolph Hearst | Thomas Hardy | William Wordsworth | William Tecumseh Sherman | Thomas Mann | William Hogarth | Thomas Aquinas | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge | Clarence Thomas | Thomas Gainsborough | William Penn | Dylan Thomas | Thomas Pynchon | William Jennings Bryan |
Many of the characters in Tales of a Wayside Inn were inspired by real people: Luigi Monti (the Sicilian), Daniel Treadwell (the theologian), Thomas William Parsons (the poet), Henry Wales (the student), Isaac Edrehi (the Spanish Jew), Ole Bull (the musician), and Lyman Howe (the landlord).