List of Famous people named William

William VII of Angoulême was also known as William Taillefer V, was the Count of Angoulême from 1181.

William Petow was an English Franciscan friar and, briefly, a cardinal.

William Seward Burroughs I was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York.

William Howard Peter Wisher Jr. is an American screenwriter, known for his work with long-time friend James Cameron on The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

William Blount was an American statesman and land speculator who signed the United States Constitution. He was a member of the North Carolina delegation at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and led the efforts for North Carolina to ratify the Constitution in 1789 at Fayetteville. He then served as the only governor of the Southwest Territory and played a leading role in helping the territory gain admission to the Union as the State of Tennessee. He was selected as one of Tennessee's initial United States Senators in 1796.

William Ashburnham was an English army officer and MP.