William Barker may refer to:
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William Barker (translator)
William Barker (fl. 1572) was an English translator.
Life
Barker was born before 1522 and educated in the University of Cambridge at the cost of Queen Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England. He appears to have commenced M.A. in 1 ...
( 1570), English translator and MP for Great Yarmouth and Bramber
*William Barker (MP for Berkshire) (died 1685), English Member of Parliament for
Berkshire
Berkshire ( ; abbreviated ), officially the Royal County of Berkshire, is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Oxfordshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the north-east, Greater London ...
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Sir William Barker, 5th Baronet
Sir William Barker, 5th Baronet (1685 – 23 July 1731) of Grimston Hall, Suffolk was a British Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1731.
Early life
Barker was the son of Sir John Barker, 4th Baronet and his wife Brid ...
(1685–1731), British Member of Parliament for Ipswich, Thetford and Suffolk
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William Barker (Queensland politician) (1819–1886), member of the Queensland Legislative Council
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William J. Barker (Denver mayor) (1832–1900), American politician
Judges
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William J. Barker (1886–1968), American lawyer and judge
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William M. Barker (1941–2023), Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1995 to 2009
Sportspeople
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William Barker (Surrey cricketer) (1857–?), English cricketer
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William Barker (tennis) (born 1981), British tennis player
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Billy Barker (footballer, born 1883)
William Clement Barker (1883–1937) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough ( ), colloquially known as Boro, is a port town in the Borough of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. Lyin ...
(1883–1937), footballer for Middlesbrough F.C. in the early 20th century; see List of Middlesbrough F.C. players
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Bill Barker (footballer) (1924–2002), footballer who played for Stoke City
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Will Barker (American football) (born 1987), American football player
Religion
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William Barker (priest, died 1776), Irish priest, Dean of Raphoe
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William Barker (priest, died 1917)
William Barker (1 December 1838 – 28 January 1917) was Dean of Carlisle from 1908 to his death in 1917.
Born in London, he was educated at Worcester College, Oxford and ordained in 1862. He began his ecclesiastical career as Curate of Hanover ...
(1838–1917), Dean of Carlisle
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William Morris Barker (1854–1901), American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia
Others
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William Barker (chemist) (1810–1873), Irish professor of chemistry
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William Barker (prospector)
William Barker (1817–1894), also known as Billy Barker, was an English prospector who was famous for being one of the first to find a large amount of gold in the Cariboo of British Columbia. He was also the founder and namesake of Barkerville ...
(1817–1894), English miner and prospector who found gold in Canada
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William Burckhardt Barker (1810–1856), English orientalist
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William George Barker
William George Barker, (3 November 1894 – 12 March 1930) was a Canadian First World War fighter ace and Victoria Cross recipient. He is the most decorated serviceman in the history of Canada.
Early life
Born on a family farm in Dauphin, Man ...
(1894–1930), Canadian Victoria Cross recipient and World War I flying ace
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William Gibbs Barker ( 1811–1897), English clergyman and genealogist
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William Higgs Barker (1744–1815), English Hebraist
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William Robert Barker
William (Bill) Robert Barker is an honorary research associate of the State Herbarium of South Australia.
He is a former chief botanist of the State Herbarium. With Robyn Mary Barker and Laurence Haegi he had a particular interest in ''Hakea'' ...
, Australian botanist
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William S. Barker (born 1934), American church historian, educator, and leader
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Will Barker (director)
William George Barker (18 January 1868, in Cheshunt – 6 November 1951, in Wimbledon, London, Wimbledon) was a British film producer, director, cinematographer, and entrepreneur who took film-making in Britain from a low budget form of novel ...
(1867–1951), aka William George Barker, English film producer and director
*Bill Barker (born 1957), creator of
Schwa, underground conceptual artwork
*Bill Barker, police officer who died in the November 2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods, namesake of
Barker Crossing
*Bill Barker, actor who portrayed Dr. Duckbill Platypus and Elsie Jean Platypus on ''
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' (sometimes shortened to ''Mister Rogers'') is an American half-hour educational children's television series that ran from 1968 to 2001. It was created and hosted by Fred Rogers. Its original incarnation, the se ...
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