List of Famous people named William
William Charles Peel
William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
William VIII ruled the German Landgraviate Hesse-Kassel from 1730 until his death, first as regent (1730–1751) and then as landgrave (1751–1760).
William Fane de Salis
William Andreas Salius Fane de Salis was a British businessman, colonialist, and barrister.
William Dunbar
William Dunbar (1750–1810) was a Scottish merchant, plantation owner, naturalist, astronomer and explorer.
William Finnie
William Christie
William Lincoln Christie is an American-born French conductor and harpsichordist. He is a specialist in baroque and classical repertoire and is the founder of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants.
William Frederick Hunter Swinton, 33rd of that Ilk
William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington
William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington PC, also 1st Baron Kensington in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, styled The Honourable William Edwardes between 1852 and 1872, was a British landowner and Liberal politician. He notably served as Comptroller of the Household from 1880 to 1885 and as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard from 1892 to 1895.
William Garnier
William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, was a British nobleman and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1721 to 1729 when he inherited the Dukedom.