List of Famous people named William

William Forester, of Dothill in Wellington, Shropshire was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons in three Parliaments between 1715 and 1758.

William Howard, 3rd Earl of Wicklow PC (I), known as William Forward between 1780 and 1815, was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.

Sir William George Maxwell was a British colonial administrator in British Malaya and the Straits Settlements.

The Rt Hon. William Wentworth FitzWilliam Dick, known as William Wentworth FitzWilliam Hume until 1864, was an Irish Conservative politician.

William Herbrand Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, is the son and heir of William Sackville, 11th Earl De La Warr. He was styled Lord Buckhurst on 9 February 1988, upon his father's succession to the earldom.

William Beach, of Oakley Hall, Hampshire and Keevil, Wiltshire, was a British politician. From 1790 to 1833 he was known as William Hicks Beach.

William Allingham was an Irish poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem 'The Faeries' was much anthologised; but he is better known for his posthumously published Diary, in which he records his lively encounters with Tennyson, Carlyle and other writers and artists. His wife, Helen Allingham, was a well-known watercolourist and illustrator.

Brigadier William Fraser, was a younger son of Alexander Fraser, 19th Lord Saltoun and served as a British Army officer in both world wars.