List of Famous people named William

William Le Roy Emmet was an electrical engineer who made major contributions to alternating current power systems including the design of large rotary converters.

William H. Ziegler was an American film editor. He edited over 100 films during his long career, most notably The Music Man, My Fair Lady and Strangers on a Train. He also edited several of the Our Gang shorts.

William Neal Harrison was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.

William Chapman Hewitson was a British naturalist. A wealthy collector, Hewitson was particularly devoted to Coleoptera (beetles) and Lepidoptera and, also, to birds' nests and eggs. His collection of butterflies, collected by him as well as purchased from travellers throughout the world, was one of the largest and most important of his time. He contributed to and published many works on entomology and ornithology and was an accomplished scientific illustrator.

William Edwin Franklin is a bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as auxiliary bishop of Archdiocese of Dubuque in the state of Iowa from 1987 to 1993, and as the seventh bishop of the Diocese of Davenport, also in Iowa, from 1993 to 2006.

William Alexander Forbes was an English zoologist. He was the son of James Staats Forbes.