William Hewlett

William R. Hewlett (May 20, 1913 – January 12, 2001) was the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan but moved to San Francisco at the age of 3 years. He attended Lowell High School and was accepted at Stanford University as a favor to his late father, Albion Walter Hewlett, who had died prematurely of a brain tumor in 1925.

External links

• Bill Hewlett Remembered by Bob Lewis (InfoWorld,January 22,2001)
• Thoemmes Encyclopedia article on William Hewlett
• Official biography at HP website