List of Famous people named William

Hamleys is a British multinational toy retailer, owned by Reliance Retail. The world's oldest toy store, it was founded by William Hamley as "Noah's Ark" in High Holborn, London, in 1760. It moved to its current site on Regent Street in London's West End in 1881. This flagship store is set over seven floors, with more than 50,000 lines of toys on sale. It receives around five million visitors each year. The chain has 15 outlets in the United Kingdom and also has more than 90 franchises worldwide.

William Hardell was a Mayor of London and a Magna Carta surety.

William Horace Clagett was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from various places in the United States. He was the uncle of Samuel B. Pettengill.

William Briwere was a medieval Bishop of Exeter.

William Henry Holmes was an English pianist and composer, and a teacher at the Royal Academy of Music.

William Ostler was an actor in English Renaissance theatre, a member of the King's Men, the company of William Shakespeare.

William Thompson Kirkpatrick was an Irish teacher and grammar school headmaster. He is best known for having been the tutor of the two Lewis brothers from Belfast, Warnie Lewis and C.S. Lewis. C.S. Lewis, who would later become well known as a literary critic, novelist, and Christian apologist, lived as a resident pupil with Kirkpatrick from 1914-1917. In his autobiography, Lewis reports that he was significantly influenced by his tutor.