List of Famous people named William

Sir William Grey Ellison-Macartney, was an Irish-born British politician, who also served as the Governor of the Australian states of Tasmania and Western Australia.

William Leatham (1785–1842) was a leading Banker in Wakefield, a Quaker and an abolitionist.

William Knyvett (1779–1856) was a British singer and composer of the 19th century.

William George Hervey Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton, was a British peer and soldier.

William Malet, feudal baron of Curry Mallet in Somerset, was one of the guarantors of Magna Carta. In 1190, he accompanied King Richard the Lionheart on crusade. While still on crusade in 1191, he took part in the Siege of Acre. Upon returning to England, he served as Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1209. The precise nature of his relationship to an earlier William Malet is unknown.

William Scott was a British artist, known for still-life and abstract painting. He is the most internationally celebrated of 20th-century Ulster painters.

William Irby, 1st Baron Boston was a British peer and Member of Parliament.

William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, was a Scottish Catholic nobleman who took part in the Jacobite rising of 1715. He was attainted with his titles forfeited. However, Lord Nithsdale made a celebrated escape from the Tower of London by changing clothes with his wife's maid the day before he was due to be executed. The lordship of Herries of Terregles was later restored to his descendants and remains extant.

Sir William Hussey of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, SL was an English lawyer who served as Attorney General and as Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

William Meade was an American Episcopal bishop, the third Bishop of Virginia.