List of Famous people named William

William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor PC, styled Viscount Folkestone from 1869 to 1889, was a British Conservative politician. He served as Treasurer of the Household under Lord Salisbury between 1885 and 1886 and again between 1886 and 1891.

William Earl Dodge Sr. was an American businessman, politician, and activist. He was referred to as one of the "Merchant Princes" of Wall Street in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Dodge saw slavery as an evil to be peaceably removed, but not to be interfered with where it existed. He was a Native American rights activist and served as the president of the National Temperance Society from 1865 to 1883. Dodge represented New York's 8th congressional district in the United States Congress for a portion of the 39th United States Congress in 1866-1867 and was a founding member of the YMCA of the USA.

William Livingstone, 6th Lord Livingston,, was a Scottish lord of Parliament.

William Shawn was an American magazine editor who edited The New Yorker from 1952 until 1987.

William John Legh, 1st Baron Newton,, was a British Conservative politician and Volunteer officer.