List of Famous people named William

William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton was an English nobleman, politician, and peer from the Spencer family.

Sir William Stafford, of Chebsey, in Staffordshire was an Essex landowner and the second husband of Mary Boleyn, who was the sister of Anne Boleyn and one-time mistress of King Henry VIII of England.

Sir William Gibson Craig, 2nd Baronet FRSE, was a Scottish Advocate and politician.

William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry was a Scottish noble.

William Turner was an English painter who specialised in watercolour landscapes. He is often known as William Turner of Oxford or just Turner of Oxford to distinguish him from his contemporary, J. M. W. Turner. Many of Turner's paintings depicted the countryside around Oxford. One of his best known pictures is a view of the city of Oxford from Hinksey Hill.

Sir William Taylor Money was an English naval captain in the East India Company, superintendent of the Bombay Marine and MP in the British Parliament.