List of Famous people named William

William Richardson Timmons IV is an American attorney, entrepreneur and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, his district is located in the heart of the Upstate and includes Greenville, Spartanburg, as well as most of those cities' suburbs. Timmons previously served as the South Carolina State Senator from the 6th district from 2016 to 2018.

Wilfred Joseph Cripps was an English antiquarian and a writer on antique silver plate.

William A. Elliott is an American art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Untouchables.

William Sandell is an art director who was nominated at the 76th Academy Awards for his work on the film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World in the category of Best Art Direction. He shared his nomination with Robert Gould.

William O. Wallace was an American set decorator who worked throughout the 1940s and 1950s in multiple Hollywood productions. He was Oscar-nominated in 1948 for Jean Negulesco’s Johnny Belinda, and also worked on Young Man with a Horn (1950), Battle Cry (1955) and Nicholas Ray’s seminal Rebel Without a Cause in 1956. He moved into television in the late 1950s, and was chief set decorator on Maverick.

Sir William Berkeley was a colonial governor of Virginia, and one of the Lords Proprietors of the Colony of Carolina; he was appointed to these posts by King Charles I, of whom he was a favourite.