Lista de Personas Famosas llamadas William

William Haskell Alsup is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

William Henry Keeler fue un cardenal, arzobispo emérito de Baltimore.

William Jackson, also known as Action Jackson was an enforcer and loan collector for the Chicago Outfit. He earned his nickname of "Action" because it was slang for "Juice Man", which meant debt-collector. He was tortured to death by his fellow gangsters, allegedly on suspicion that he had become an informant for the FBI.

William Taliaferro Close was an American surgeon who played a major role in stemming a 1976 outbreak of the Ebola virus in Zaire, the first major outbreak of the viral hemorrhagic fever in Central Africa, and preventing its further spread. He was also the father of actress Glenn Close and husband of Bettine Moore Close.

William Alexander Pickering was the first Protector appointed on 3 May 1877 by the British government to administer the Chinese Protectorate in colonial Singapore. He was the first European official in Singapore who could speak fluent Mandarin and Hokkien and gained the trust of many of the Singapore Chinese. His efforts went a long way towards controlling the problems posed by the secret societies then. Pickering Street in Singapore's Chinatown is named after him.

William Joseph Denny, was a South Australian journalist, lawyer, politician and decorated soldier who held the South Australian House of Assembly seats of West Adelaide from 1900 to 1902 and then Adelaide from 1902 to 1905 and again from 1906 to 1933. After an unsuccessful candidacy as a United Labor Party (ULP) member in 1899, he was elected as an "independent liberal" in a by-election in 1900. He was re-elected in 1902, but defeated in 1905. The following year, he was elected as a ULP candidate, and retained his seat for that party until 1931. Along with the rest of the cabinet, he was ejected from the Australian Labor Party in 1931, and was a member of the Parliamentary Labor Party until his electoral defeat at the hands of a Lang Labor Party candidate in 1933.

William Cecil, I Barón Burghley, fue un estadista inglés, principal consejero de la reina Isabel I durante la mayor parte de su reinado, dos veces secretario de Estado y Lord Alto Tesorero desde 1572. En su descripción en la Encyclopædia Britannica undécima edición, Albert Pollard escribió: "Desde 1558 durante cuarenta años, la biografía de Cecil es casi indistinguible de la de Isabel y de la historia de Inglaterra".

William Michael Hootkins fue un actor estadounidense, conocido por sus papeles en películas de Hollywood como la saga de Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark y Batman.

William Woods Holden fue el 38.º y el 40.º gobernador de Carolina del Norte, que fue nombrado por el presidente Andrew Johnson en 1865 por un breve periodo y posteriormente fue elegido en 1868, ocupando su cargo hasta 1871. Fue el líder del partido republicano del estado durante la reconstrucción.

William Crawford was an American soldier and surveyor who worked as a western land agent for George Washington. Crawford fought in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. He was tortured and burned at the stake by American Indians in retaliation for the Gnadenhutten massacre, a notorious slaughter of Indians by militia near the end of the American Revolution.