List of Famous people named William

William Mayrant was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.

William Thompson Price was an American lawyer and Republican politician. He represented Wisconsin's 8th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1883 until his death, and was succeeded by his son, Hugh H. Price. He is the namesake of Price County, Wisconsin.

William Washington was a cavalry officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, who held a final rank of brigadier general in the newly created United States after the war. Primarily known as a commander of light dragoons, he led mounted troops in a number of notable battles in the Carolinas during the campaigns of 1780 and 1781.

William Mitchellson Treloar was an American music professor, composer, music publisher, and U.S. Representative from Missouri.

William Lyde Wiggett Chute was an English landowner and barrister. He was High Sheriff of Norfolk and Conservative Party member of Parliament for West Norfolk. He inherited The Vyne estate in Hampshire and Pickenham Hall in Norfolk, and greatly improved the condition of The Vyne.

William Charles Buller was an English first-class cricketer active 1833–39 who played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). He was born in St Gluvias, Cornwall and died in Camden Town. He appeared in six first-class matches.

Sir William Holles JP of Haughton, Nottinghamshire was a member of parliament for Nottinghamshire and also High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests.

William Babell was an English musician, composer and prolific arranger of vocal music for harpsichord.

Guillaume de Champeaux, known in English as William of Champeaux and Latinised to Gulielmus de Campellis, was a French philosopher and theologian.

William Merritt Chase was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons School of Design.