List of Famous people named William

William Ayshford Sanford, DL was a landowner, naturalist and Liberal Party politician, who served as Colonial Secretary of Western Australia from 1852 to 1855.

William Mure, of Caldwell was a British soldier and Liberal Party politician.

William Francis Conolly-Carew, 6th Baron Carew, CBE, C.St.J, was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Bermuda, Sir Thomas Astley-Cubbitt, between 1931 and 1936.

William Alexander Mackinnon was elected the whig MP for Rye on 10 July 1852 but the result was declared void as a result of "treating". There was a question of £220 left behind a sofa cushion at the Red Lion to pay for a dinner. At the resulting bye-election the seat was taken by his father. At the next election he was elected MP for Lymington which he held until 1868 but he never spoke in parliament. He was the 34th Chief of the Clan Mackinnon. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.