List of Famous people named William

William Whitaker was born on 4 May 1836 in London,

William Botting Hemsley was an English botanist and 1909 Victoria Medal of Honour recipient.

William Wetmore Story was an American sculptor, art critic, poet, and editor.

William Bendix was an American film, radio, and television actor, who typically played rough, blue-collar characters. He is best remembered in films for the title role in The Babe Ruth Story. He also portrayed the clumsily earnest aircraft plant worker Chester A. Riley in both the radio and television versions of The Life of Riley. He received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for Wake Island (1942). Bendix was a frequent co-star of Alan Ladd, the two appearing in ten films together; both actors coincidentally died in 1964.

Sir William Alexander Craigie was a philologist and a lexicographer.

William Sterling Cole was an American politician, lawyer and civil servant, who served as the first Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1957 to 1961. Before his appointment to the IAEA he was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.