List of Famous people named William

William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland, styled Viscount Woodstock from 1709 to 1716 and Marquess of Titchfield from 1716 to 1726, was a British peer and politician.

William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington was a British politician and British Army officer. He was the elder son of Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, and therefore the heir to the dukedom. He was killed in action in the Second World War during fighting in the Low Countries in September 1944 whilst leading a company of the Coldstream Guards.

Captain William Charles Bonaparte-Wyse was an Irish soldier and poet.

Lieutenant General Sir William George Shedden Dobbie, was a British Army veteran of the Second Boer War and the First and Second World Wars.

William Tatton Egerton, 1st Baron Egerton was a British peer and politician from the Egerton family.

William, known as William the Courteous, a member of the House of Habsburg, was Duke of Austria from 1386. As head of the Leopoldian line, he ruled over the Inner Austrian duchies of Carinthia, Styria and Carniola as well as the County of Tyrol and Further Austria from 1396 until his death.