List of Famous people named William

William Little Frierson was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. During his career he served as the United States Solicitor General (1920–1921), United States Assistant Attorney General (1917–1920), and mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee (1905–1907).

William Jacobs was an American screenwriter and producer for Warner Bros.. He wrote 13 Hollywood movies and produced 59 more, including musicals.

William Warren was an actor. His first appearance was as Young Norval in Home's tragedy of Douglas. He also performed in Yorkshire. As Trueman in George Barnwell, as Hastings in She Stoops to conquer, as a pilgrim in King Richard, Mirvan in Orphan of China and First Scholar in The Padlock at Leeds theatre. Soon afterward, Warren came to the United States, making his debut at Baltimore, Maryland, as Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet. In 1805 he went to England, as agent for the Philadelphia Theatre, to recruit a company of comedians.

William Abner Stanfill was briefly a member of the United States Senate from Kentucky.

William Marshall is regarded as one of the greatest composers of Scottish fiddle music.

William Joseph Vaughan was a British clergyman who held high office in the Roman Catholic Church as the second bishop of Plymouth.

William Vans Murray was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman. He served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1788 to 1790, and in the United States House of Representatives from 1791 to 1797. He was the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1797 to 1801.

William Adams Richardson was the 29th United States Secretary of the Treasury and later a Judge and Chief Justice of the Court of Claims.

William Brade was an English composer, violinist, and viol player of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, mainly active in northern Germany. He was the first Englishman to write a canzona, an Italian form, and probably the first to write a piece for solo violin.

William Anderson Pile was a nineteenth-century politician and minister from Missouri, as well as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was Governor of New Mexico Territory from 1869 to 1871. William was one half Native American, most likely Choctaw. His father's name was Jacob Pile and his mother's name was Comfort Williams.