List of Famous people named William

William Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Werke was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.

Lieutenant General William Tryon was a British Army general and colonial official who served as the 39th governor of New York from 1771 to 1777, assuming the office after having served as the eighth governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771.

William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford was an English peer.

William Grey was Bishop of London and then Bishop of Lincoln.

William Henry ("Judge") Moore was an American attorney and financier. He organized and promoted or sat as a director for several steel companies that were merged with among others the Carnegie Steel Company to create United States Steel. He and his brother James Hobart Moore helped create the Diamond Match Company, National Biscuit Company, First National Bank, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, the American Can Company, the Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, the Continental Fire Insurance Company, the Western Union Telegraph Company, the American Cotton Oil Company, and Bankers Trust. Moore was an avid and expert horsemen.

Margrave William of Hachberg-Sausenberg was the son of Margrave Rudolf III of Hachberg-Sausenberg and Anne of Freiburg-Neuchâtel. He ruled from 1428 to 1441, and abdicated on 21 June 1441 in favor of his infant sons, Rudolf IV and Hugo. As they were still infants, his cousin Count John of Freiburg-Neuchâtel took over the government as regent.