Lista de Personas Famosas llamadas William

William Forsyth fue un botánico escocés. Fue un importante directivo horticultor Real, y un miembro fundador de la Royal Horticultural Society.

William Webb Ellis fue un clérigo anglicano inglés, a quien se acredita como inventor de rugby cuando era alumno de la Escuela de Rugby. Según la leyenda, Webb Ellis recogió la pelota y corrió con ella durante un partido de fútbol escolar en 1823, creando así el estilo de juego 'rugby'. Aunque la historia se ha arraigado firmemente en el folklore del deporte, no está respaldada por evidencia sustancial, y la mayoría de los historiadores del rugby la descartan como un mito de origen.

William Avery "Devil Bill" Rockefeller Sr. was an American businessman, lumberman, herbalist, salesman, and con-artist who went by the alias of Dr. William Levingston. He worked as a lumberman and then a traveling salesman who identified himself as a "botanic physician" and sold elixirs. He was known to buy and sell horses, and was also known at one point to have bought a barge-load of salt in Syracuse. Land speculation was another type of his business, and the selling of elixirs served to keep him with cash and aided in his scouting of land deals. He loaned money to farmers at twelve percent, but tried to lend to farmers who could not pay so as to foreclose and take the farms. Two of his sons were Standard Oil co-founders John Davison Rockefeller Sr. and William Avery Rockefeller Jr.

Sir William Beach Thomas, was a British author and journalist known for his work as a war correspondent and his writings about nature and country life.

William Thornton Kemper Sr. was an American banker who was the patriarch of the Missouri Kemper family, which developed both Commerce Bancshares and United Missouri Bank to become a major banking family in the Midwest.

William James Joseph Lombardy fue un gran maestro de ajedrez, escritor de ajedrez, profesor y sacerdote católico estadounidense.

William Lloyd Scott was an American Republican politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia. He served in both the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate, and was Virginia's first post-Reconstruction Republican Senator.

William Gates is an American former Chicago-area high school and college basketball player. Gates was the subject of the 1994 Kartemquin Films documentary film Hoop Dreams along with another Chicago-area high school basketball player Arthur Agee.

William Kistler Coors was an American brewery executive with the Coors Brewing Company. He was affiliated with the company for over 64 years, and was a board member from 1973 to 2003. He was a grandson of Adolph Coors (1847–1929), the company's founder.

William Feiner was a German Catholic priest and Jesuit who became a missionary to the United States and eventually the president of Georgetown College, now known as Georgetown University.