Paul Williams (1915 – 2002) was an American blues and rhythm and blues saxophonist and composer. In his Honkers and Shouters, Arnold Shaw credits Williams as one of the first to employ the honking tenor sax solo that became the hallmark of rhythm and blues and rock and roll in the 50s and early 60s.
After performing with Clarence Dorsey and King Porter he formed his own band in 1947. He was best known for his 1949 hit, "The Hucklebuck", a twelve-bar blues that also spawned a dance craze. He used the billing of Paul Williams and his Hucklebuckers thereafter. Charlie Parker had four years earlier used the same riff for his "Now's the Time".
Williams' recording was covered by Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra, as well as by R&B artists Roy Milton and Lionel Hampton, but Williams' Savoy recording was still the best-selling rhythm and blues song of the year. Shaw points out that "The Hucklebuck" was an early example of crossover from R&B to mainstream popular music.
Williams later worked in the Atlantic Records house band and was musical director for Lloyd Price and James Brown.
Paul Hamilton Williams (born September 19 1940, in Omaha, Nebraska, USA) is an American musician, composer, songwriter, actor, and American little person.
Paul Williams (July 2, 1939 – August 17, 1973) was an American second tenor/baritone singer.
Williams is noted for being one of the founding members and original lead singer of the popular Motown group The Temptations. Along with David Ruffin, Otis Williams (no relation), and fellow Alabamians Eddie Kendricks and Melvin Franklin, Williams was a member of The Temptations during their most successful years in the 1960s, later dubbed the "Classic 5" period. Paul Williams himself was a member of the group from its founding in 1960 until 1971, when personal problems and failing health forced him to retire. Those same problems would later cause Williams to commit suicide two years later, at the age of thirty-four. The Paul Williams family does not believe, due to undisclosed reasons, that Mr. Williams killed himself.
Paul Revere Williams (February 18, 1894 - January 23, 1980) was an African American architect who based his practice largely in Los Angeles, California and the Southern California area. Orphaned at the age of four, he was the only African American student in his elementary school. He studied at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design and at the Los Angeles branch of the New York Beaux-Arts Institute of Design Atelier, subsequently working as a landscape architect. He went on to attend the University of Southern California designing several residential buildings while still a student there. Williams became a certified architect in 1921, and the first certified African American architect west of the Mississippi. On June 27, 1917 he married Della Mae Givens at the First AME Church in Los Angeles. The couple had three children, who were as follows:
He won an architectural competition at age 25 and three years later opened his own office. Known as an outstanding draftsman, Williams perfected the skill of rendering drawings "upside down". This skill was developed so that his clients (who may have been uncomfortable sitting next to a "Black" architect) would see the drawings rendered right side up across the table from him. Fighting to gain attention, he served on the first Los Angeles City Planning Commission in 1920. Williams was the first African American member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). In 1939 he won the AIA Award of Merit for his design of the MCA Building in Los Angeles (now headquarters of Litton Industries). During World War II Williams worked for the Navy Department as an architect. Following the war he published his first book, The Small Home of Tomorrow (1945), with a successor volume New Homes for Today the following year. In 1957 became the first African American to be voted an AIA Fellow.
In 1951 he won the Omega Psi Phi Man of the Year award and in 1953 Williams received the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP for his outstanding contributions as an architect and member of the African American community. Williams also received honorary doctorates from Howard University (doctor of architecture), Lincoln University (doctor of science), and the Tuskegee Institute (doctor of fine arts). In 2004, USC honored him by listing him among its distinguished alumni, in the television commercial for the school shown during its football games.
Williams famously remarked upon the bitter irony of the fact that most of the homes he designed, and whose construction he oversaw, were on parcels whose deeds included segregation covenants barring blacks from purchasing them.
Paul Williams holds the Rebecca Grazier Professorship in Law and International Relations at American University where he teaches in the School of International Service and the Washington College of Law. Dr. Williams is also co-founder and Executive Director of the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG)blank">http://www/publicinternationallaw.org which provides pro bono legal assistance to developing states and states in transition. Since 1995 PILPG has provided pro bono legal assistance to states and governments involved in peace negotiations, drafting post-conflict constitutions, and prosecuting war criminals. In 2005, Dr. Williams, as Executive Director of PILPG, was nominated for the _Nobel Peace Prize by half a dozen of his pro bono government clients.
Previously, Dr. Williams served in the Department of State’s Office of the Legal Advisor for European and Canadian Affairs, as a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and as a Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of Cambridge. He is a Member of the American Society of International Law and serves on the Board of Directors of several non-profit organizations. Dr. Williams earned his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, his J.D. from Stanford Law School, and his B.A. from the University of California at Davis.
Dr. Williams is regarded as a social entrepreneur for his practical and innovative approach to providing pro bono legal assistance to states and governments. During the course of his legal practice, he has assisted nearly a dozen states and sub-state entities in major international peace negotiations, and has served as a delegation member in the Dayton negotiations (Bosnia-Herzegovina), the Rambouillet/Paris negotiations (Kosovo), the Ohrid/Skopje negotiations (Macedonia), and the Belgrade/Podgorica negotiations (Serbia/Montenegro). He also advised parties to the Key West negotiations (Nagorno-Karabakh), the Oslo/Geneva negotiations (Sri Lanka), the Georgia/Abkhaz negotiations, and the Somalia peace talks.
He has also advised fifteen governments across Europe, Africa and Asia on matters of public international law. Dr. Williams has advised the governments of Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq, Kosovo, Montenegro and Nagorno-Karabakh on the drafting and implementation of post-conflict constitutions. He is also experienced advising governments on issues of state recognition, self-determination, and state succession.
Dr. Williams is a leading scholar on peace negotiations and post-conflict constitutions. He has authored four books on topics of international human rights, international environmental law and international norms of justice, and over fifteen articles on a wide variety of public international law topics. His latest book, Peace with Justice? War Crimes and Accountability in the Former Yugoslavia, was co-written with Dr. Michael Scharf, Managing Director of PILPG. Dr. Williams is also a sought-after international law and policy analyst, and has been interviewed more than 250 times by major print and broadcast media.
Paul Williams (born May 19, 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts) created the first US magazine of rock music criticism Crawdaddy! in January of 1966 on the campus of Swarthmore College with the help of some of his fellow science fiction fans (he had previously put out some science fiction fanzines). He left the magazine in 1968 and reclaimed the title in 1993, but had to end it in 2003 due to financial difficulties.
He is also the author of more than 25 books, of which the best-known are Outlaw Blues, Das Energi, and Bob Dylan, Performing Artist, the acclaimed three-part series. Williams is a leading authority on the works of musicians Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, and Neil Young, and science fiction writers Philip K. Dick (serving as the executor of his literary estate) and Theodore Sturgeon. His most recent book is The 20th Century's Greatest Hits (a "Top 40" list that includes movies, books & other documents blank">http://paulwilliams.com/hits.html).
In 1981 he edited and published, with _David Hartwell, the first book edition of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with a forward by Jimmy Carter.
From 1982 to 1992 Williams ran the Philip K. Dick Society along with Keith Bowden in the UK. PKDS had some thousands of members internationally and was a significant influence in publicising Dick's work internationally. It published 40 quarterly Newsletters including some previously unpublished Dick material.
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Paul Williams (born April 3, 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer with both Collingwood and Sydney. He is currently a specialist assistant coach at the Melbourne Football Club.
Williams began his AFL career with Collingwood, joining them from Tasmanian club North Hobart. Playing in a number of positions ranging from half back to half forward, the tough-tackling Williams was a regular in the mostly unsuccessful Collingwood side of the late 1990s, racking up 189 games and kicking 223 goals (his best being 6 against Carlton in 1996). However, at the end of the 2000 season, he was traded to Sydney for two draft picks. There, he immediately made an impact, winning two consecutive Bob Skilton Medals in 2001 and 2002, as well as being selected in the All-Australian team of 2003.
During a 2004 match against the Brisbane Lions, which the Swans lost, Paul Williams got three Brownlow Medal votes.
Paul Glyn Williams (born 14 November 1922) was Conservative Party (UK) Member of Parliament for Sunderland South, and a leading member of the Conservative Monday Club. He was also a prominent businessman.
Paul Williams (born July 27, 1981, in Aiken, South Carolina) is an American boxer and is the former WBO welterweight champion. At 6'1, Paul is considered extremely tall for a welterweight.
Paul Williams (b. 1964) is an Irish journalist and author.
Paul Williams was born in 1964 in Ballinamore, County Leitrim, Ireland. He studied journalism at the Rathmines School of Journalism in Dublin before pursuing post-graduate studies in criminology.
He is the author of best-selling crime boss exposé, The General and The Untouchables (2006). The General was made into a major award-winning movie directed by John Boorman. Williams is also a crime correspondent with The Sunday World. He broke many of the news stories on Martin Cahill.
His other books include Gangland (1998), Evil Empire (2001) and Crimelords (2003). He is currently the crime editor of the Sunday World and a member of the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). He is a recipient of two national journalism awards (Print Journalist [1995] and Campaigning Journalist [1996] awards), the Humbert Summer School International Media Award and the Premier Award of the Irish Security Industry Association (2006).
On March 16, 2007, a man was acquitted at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of threatening to kill or cause serious harm to Paul Williams.
Williams is married and has two children. A new six-part TV series by Paul Williams on the history of the CAB began on January 2008 on TV3.
Paul Williams (born September 3, 1940, in London, England) is an English composer and pianist.
Paul Williams born Burton upon Trent, England 26 March 1971 is a professional footballer who was an unused substitute for Southampton in the 2003 FA Cup final who also played for long periods for Coventry City and Derby County.
He began his professional career with Derby County in 1985 where he appeared in 160 League games and scored 26 goals as a defender. He also appeared in 8 FA Cup games and scored three goals and 12 Football League Cup games, scoring two goals. He played briefly on loan to Lincoln City in 1989 and then was transferred to Coventry City in 1995 where he appeared in 169 games and scored five goals in League play as well as 13 appearances in the F.A. Cup and 17 in the League Cup.
In 2001 Williams was transferred to Southampton where he appeared in 39 League games, two F.A. Cup matches, and one League Cup game. Williams was a member of the Southampton side that finished as Runners-Up in the F.A. cup final in 2003.
After leaving Southampton, he joined Stoke City for 2 seasons before moving to the United States. Williams also played for the USL’s Richmond Kickers in the 2005 season.
He spent the 2006-07 season as head coach of Fredericksburg Gunners E.html" target="_blank">http://fcfred.com/PDL/index_E.html in the _USL Premier Development League, the fourth tier of football in the United States.
Paul Williams (born December 2 1983, Avenal, California) is an American football wide receiver who plays for the Tennessee Titans of the NFL.
Paul Williams is a writer from the UK. He has contributed short fiction and poetry to magazines and anthologies. His first book, Howls of Imagination, a non-fiction study of wolves in folklore, was published by Heart of Albion Press in 2007. This is an abridged version of his PhD thesis at the University of Sheffield.
Paul Williams (born September 11, 1969 in Leicester) was a professional footballer who is probably most remembered for his time at Plymouth Argyle in the mid-1990s.
Paul Williams (born 1956-08-07 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a retired long-distance runner from Canada, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984. His best result was finishing in 21st place in the men's 10.000 metres at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Williams is a four-time national champion in the men's 5.000 metres.
Paul Anthony Williams (born 16 August 1965) is an English former professional footballer who made 300 appearances in the Football League for a variety of clubs. He was capped by England at under-21 and B international level.
Born in Stratford, East London, Williams was signed by Charlton Athletic from non-league Woodford Town in 1987. He moved to Sheffield Wednesday in 1990 where he enjoyed a productive partnership with David Hirst. Williams moved back to London with Crystal Palace in 1992.
After loans with Sunderland and Birmingham City he returned to Charlton, followed by a few months at Torquay United before ending his league career with Southend United in 1998.
Paul Williams (born 8 September 1963 in Sheffield) is a retired Northern Irish footballer. He won one cap for the Northern Ireland national football team.
His mother is Nobel Peace Prize laureate Betty Williams.
Paul Williams is a New Zealand Rugby Union player who plays provincial rugby for Canterbury, and is in the Super 14 team the Highlanders. He is a son of All Black Bryan Williams.
