List of Famous people named William

William Kiernan was an American set decorator. He was nominated for six Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.

The Very Reverend William Holden Hutton DD was a British historian and a priest of the Church of England. He was Dean of Winchester from 1919 to 1930.

William Halse Rivers Rivers was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work treating First World War officers who were suffering from shell shock in order to return them to combat. Rivers' most famous patient was the poet Siegfried Sassoon, with whom he remained close friends until his own sudden death.

William Faversham was an English stage and film actor, manager, and producer.

William Frederick Denning was a British amateur astronomer who achieved considerable success without formal scientific training. He is known for his catalogues of meteor radiants, observations of Jupiter's red spot, and for the discovery of five comets.

Sir William Maddock Bayliss was an English physiologist.

William Boyett was an American actor best known for his work as the low-key but authoritative Sergeant William 'Mac' MacDonald on the police drama Adam-12.