List of Famous people named William

William Dorsey Pender was a General in the Confederacy in the American Civil War serving as a Brigade and Divisional commander. Promoted to brigadier on the battlefield at Seven Pines by Confederate President Jefferson Davis in person, he fought in the Seven Days Battles and at Second Manassas, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, being wounded in each of these engagements. Lee rated him as one of the most promising of his commanders, promoting him to major general at twenty-nine. Pender was mortally wounded on the second day of Gettysburg.

Wilhelm von Brincken, also known as Wilhelm L. von Brincken, William Vaughn, William von Brinken and William Vaughan, was a German diplomat and spy during World War I, who would go on to become an American character actor of the silent and sound film eras.

William de Vere was Bishop of Hereford and an Augustinian canon.

William Wright Southgate was a Kentucky State and United States politician. He was the son of Richard Southgate and Ann Winston Hinde. He married Adaliza Keene of Lexington, Kentucky, on November 7, 1823, and they had 13 children.

William Joseph Marciano is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in elementary particle physics.

William Milo Stone was the sixth Governor of Iowa (1864–68).

William Henry Wilder was a lawyer and U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.

William Napleton Molesworth-St Aubyn was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885.

William Czar Bradley was an American lawyer and politician. He served as U.S. Representative from Vermont.

William Conant Church was an American journalist and soldier. He was the co-founder and second president of the National Rifle Association.