William Robert Dotson (December 27, 1940 – June 16, 2021) was a track and field athlete from the University of Kansas.
He was the seventh person in the United States to break the four-minute mile barrier, with a time of 3:59.0 on June 23, 1962.
[2] Dotson graduated from Concordia High School in 1958, where as an athlete he broke Glenn Cunningham's mile record that had stood for 28 years.
[3] At the 1963 Chicago Daily News Invitational, he became the fourth man in the world to run a mile under four minutes on an indoor track.
He lived in Santa Monica, California for over 40 years, moving to Nebraska for health reasons in 2021.