Bill Explained

Bill(s) may refer to:

Common meanings

• Banknote, paper cash (especially in the United States)
• Bill (law), a proposed law put before a legislature
• Invoice, commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer
• Bill, a bird or animal's beak

Places

• Bill, Wyoming, an unincorporated community, United States

People and fictional characters

• Bill (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
• Bill (surname)
• Bill (footballer, born 1978), Togolese football forward Alessandro Faria
• Bill (footballer, born 1984), Brazilian football forward Rosimar Amâncio
• Bill (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian forward Fabricio Rodrigues da Silva Ferreira

Arts, media, and entertainment

Characters

• Bill, the villain of the Kill Bill films
• Bill, one of the protagonists of the Bill & Ted films
• A lizard in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• A locomotive in The Railway Series and Thomas & Friends
• A candy store owner in the 1971 film, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
• Bill the Cat, a Bloom County character
• Bill Cipher, a demon in Gravity Falls
• Bill the Pony and his previous owner Bill Ferny in the novel The Lord of the Rings
• Bill Potts (Doctor Who), a female companion of the twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who
• Bill Sikes, the antagonist from Oliver Twist
• Mr. Bill, a claymation character on Saturday Night Live
• Sour Bill, in Wreck-It Ralph
• Bill Kerman, in the computer game Kerbal Space Program

Films

• Bill (1981 film), a 1981 TV film starring Mickey Rooney
  • , 1983 sequel to the 1981 film
• Bill (2015 film), an adventure-comedy film about Shakespeare from the cast of Horrible Histories
• Bill, the Galactic Hero (film), 2014 science student fiction film based on the 1965 Harry Harrison novel
• Meet Bill, a 2007 comedy film formerly known as Bill
• The Bill, a long-running British police TV drama series

Music

Albums

• Bill (Bill Cosby album), 1973
• Bill (Bill Anderson album), 1973
• Bill (Tripping Daisy album), 1992
• Bill, 2021 album by William Shatner

Songs

• "Bill" (song), a song from the 1927 musical Show Boat
• "Bill", a 1996 song by Peggy Scott-Adams

Printed media

• Bill, the Galactic Hero, a 1965 science fiction novel by American writer Harry Harrison
• Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains, a 1990 novel by Harry Harrison and Robert Sheckley
• "Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster", an 1898 sketch story by Australian writer Henry Lawson
• "The Bill" (short story), a 2013 short story by Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai

Television

• The Bill, a British police procedural television series
• The Bill (Inside No. 9), an episode of the British television series Inside No. 9.

Weapons

• Bill (weapon), a weapon similar to a halberd
• BILL Anti-tank guided weapon, a Swedish anti-tank weapon
  • BILL 2 Anti-tank guided weapon, a Swedish anti-tank weapon

Other uses

• Bill (United States Congress)
• Bill the Goat, the mascot of the US Naval Academy
• The Bill (band)
• Tropical Storm Bill, a list of storms

See also

• Bills (disambiguation)
• Little Bill (disambiguation)
  • Bil (disambiguation)
• Bill of rights