William Brown may refer to:

Academics

* William Brown (industrial relations expert) (1945–2019), British academic, Master of Darwin College, Cambridge * William Brown (plant pathologist) (1888–1975), British mycologist and plant pathologist *

William Brown (psychologist) William Brown FRCP (5 December 1881 – 17 May 1952) was a British psychologist and psychiatrist. Biography Brown was born in Slinfold, Sussex. He studied mathematics and philosophy at Christ Church, Oxford. He took medical training at King's ...

(1881–1952), British psychologist * William Fuller Brown Jr. (1904–1983), American physicist * W. G. Brown, Canadian mathematician *

William Harvey Brown William Harvey Brown (August 22, 1862April 5, 1913) was an American naturalist who later settled in Rhodesia. Whilst studying at the University of Kansas Brown volunteered with the National Museum of Natural History and took part in collecting e ...

(1862–1913), American naturalist * William Jethro Brown (1868–1930), Australian jurist and professor of law * William L. Brown (geneticist) (1913–1991), American geneticist * W. Norman Brown (1892–1975), American Indologist and Sanskritist * William Yancey Brown (born 1948), American zoologist and attorney

Sportspeople

Association football

William Brown (goalkeeper) William Brown was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Nottingham Forest and Notts County Notts County Football Club is a professional association football club based in Nottingham, England. The team participate in th ...

(), English footballer * William Brown (Scottish footballer) (1912–2008), Scottish footballer

Cricket

* William Brown (Tasmanian cricketer) (1807–1859), English-born Tasmanian first-class cricketer * William Brown (cricketer, born 1866), English cricketer * William Brown (cricketer, born 1876) (1876–1942), English first-class cricketer * William Brown (cricketer, born 1888) (1888–1964), English cricketer * William Brown (cricketer, born 1889), English cricketer * William Brown (cricketer, born 1900) (1900–1986), English cricketer * William Brown (New Zealand cricketer) (born 1917), New Zealand cricketer * William Brown (MCC cricketer), English first-class cricketer

Other sports

William Brown (ice hockey) William Brown may refer to: Academics * William Brown (industrial relations expert) (1945–2019), British academic, Master of Darwin College, Cambridge * William Brown (plant pathologist) (1888–1975), British mycologist and plant pathologist * ...

(born 1998), see

1956 NCAA men's ice hockey tournament The 1956 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1955–56 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, the 9th such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 15 and 17, 1956, and concluded with Michigan defeating Mic ...

William Brown (golfer) William Brown ( – unknown) was a Scottish professional golfer who played in the late 19th century. Brown had one top-10 finish in The Open Championship. His best performance was a tie for fifth place in the 1877 Open Championship. Early life ...

(born ), Scottish golfer *

William Brown (baseball) William M. Brown (1866 – December 20, 1897
, The New York Times, December 22, 1897.), nicknamed "Big Bill",

(1866–1897), American Major League catcher * William Brown (tennis) (born 1945), American tennis player *

William Brown (rugby league) William Brown nicknamed "Bill" was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s. He played for Western Suburbs and Balmain in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition. Playing career A Balmain junior, ...

, Australian rugby league player *

William Davie Brown William Davie Brown (29 May 1852 – 24 March 1876) was a Scottish international rugby union player. He played as a full back. He played for Glasgow Academicals, one of the top teams in Scotland at the time. He was called up to the Glasg ...

(1852–1876), Scottish rugby union player * William Sorley Brown (1860–1901), Scottish rugby union player * Will Brown (racing driver) (born 1998), Australian racing driver * Rookie Brown (1925–1971), American professional basketball player * Bill Brown (runner) (1925–2018), American middle distance runner

Clergymen and theologians

* William Laurence Brown (1755–1830), Scottish divine (theologian) *

William Brown (clergyman) William Brown (1766–1835) was a Scottish clergyman. Life Brown was licensed by the presbytery of Stirling in 1791, was minister to the parish of Eskdalemuir Scotland, presented by Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, and served from 1792 to 1 ...

(1766–1835), Scottish clergyman and Hebraist *

William Montgomery Brown William Montgomery Brown (September 4, 1855 – October 31, 1937), sometimes called "Bad Bishop" Brown, was an Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal clergyman and author. Brown, of Galion, Ohio, was consecrated a bishop of the Episcopal Chur ...

(1855–1937), American Episcopalian bishop and Communist author *

William P. Brown William P. Brown is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, author, biblical theologian, and the William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. Education Brown earned a Bachelor of Arts in ...

, American Presbyterian minister, author and biblical theologian * William Haig Brown (1823–1907), English cleric and headmaster of Charterhouse School * William Brown (priest) (1710–1797), Archdeacon of Northampton * William Cabell Brown (1861–1927), American Episcopal missionary and bishop of Virginia *

William A. Brown (bishop) William Ambrose Brown (January 3, 1878 – July 12, 1965) was an American bishop who served as the fourth Bishop of Southern Virginia between 1938 and 1950. Early life and education Brown was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, on January 3, 187 ...

(1878–1965), American who served as the fourth Bishop of Southern Virginia * William Adams Brown, American minister, professor and philanthropist * William Francis Brown (1862–1951), bishop, see

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Southvarcensis'') is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in England. It is headed by the Archbishop of Southwark. The archdiocese is part of the Ecclesiastical ...

Engineers

* William Liston Brown (1842–1929), American industrialist * William C. Brown (1916–1999), American electrical engineer * William F. Brown (engineer) (1919–2010), American welding engineer *

William Brown (bridge designer) William Christopher Brown OBE (16 September 1928 – 16 March 2005) was a structural engineer and bridge designer who specialised in suspension bridges. He is credited with the idea of designing bridge decks with an aerofoil-shaped cross sectio ...

(1928–2005), English structural engineer, bridge designer * William Brown (mining engineer) (1717–1782), English mining engineer, waggonway designer and steam engine builder

Military people

* William Brown (British Army officer) (1922–1984), commander of the Gilgit Scouts during the Partition of India * William Brown (soldier) (1759–1808), American Revolutionary War soldier * William Brown (Royal Navy officer) (1764–1814), British Royal Navy admiral *

William Brown (admiral) William Brown (also known in Spanish as Guillermo Brown or ''Almirante'' Brown) (22 June 1777 – 3 March 1857) was an Irish-born Argentine admiral. Brown's successes in the Argentine War of Independence, the Cisplatine War and the Anglo-Frenc ...

(1777–1857), or Guillermo Brown, Irish-Argentine Navy admiral * William Brown (sailor) (birth name unknown), Black woman who briefly served in the Royal Navy in 1815, disguised as a man * William A. Brown (admiral) (born 1958), vice admiral in the United States Navy *

William H. Brown (Medal of Honor) William H. Brown (c. 1836 – November 5, 1896) was a United States Navy sailor during the American Civil War and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor. Biography Brown was born in about 1836 in Baltimore, ...

(1836–1896), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient * William Henry Brown (aviator) (1894–1969), Canadian World War I flying ace * William Maurice Brown (1910–1975), New Zealand Lt. Colonel; first principal of Faujdarhat Cadet College *

William Gustavus Brown General William Gustavus Brown (3 February 1809 – 27 November 1883) was Commander of British Troops in China and Hong Kong. Family Brown was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to Janette Smellie (who was listed as a free woman of colour on his baptis ...

(1809–1883), commander of British troops in China and Hong Kong *

William Perry Brown Jr. William Perry Brown Jr. (December 18, 1923 – February 24, 1952) was a highly decorated United States Marine Corps aviator. He was a flying ace and a recipient of two Navy Crosses and was killed in the Korean War. World War II William P. Brown ...

(1923–1952), American Marine and recipient of two Navy Crosses

Politicians and diplomats

Australia

William Brown (New South Wales politician) William Brown (8 October 1867 – 30 June 1954) was an Australian politician. He was born at Nelsons Plains to farmer Samuel Brown and Elizabeth Parsons. He attended local public schools and farmed some land before moving to Sydney to join ...

(1867–1954), member of the New South Wales Parliament * William Brown (Tasmanian politician) (1840–1926), Australian politician * William Villiers Brown (1843–1915), Queensland politician

United Kingdom

* Sir William Brown, 1st Baronet, of Richmond Hill (1784–1864), British merchant and banker, MP for South Lancashire 1846–1859 * William Brown (MP for Gloucester), in 1341, MP for

Gloucester Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east of t ...

William Brown (MP for Bedford) William Brown may refer to: Academics *William Brown (industrial relations expert) (1945–2019), British academic, Master of Darwin College, Cambridge *William Brown (plant pathologist) (1888–1975), British mycologist and plant pathologist * Wi ...

, in 1397, MP for

Bedford Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population of the Bedford built-up area (including Biddenham and Kempston) was 106,940, making it the second-largest settlement in Bedfordshire, behind Luton, whilst ...

W. J. Brown (trade unionist) William John Brown (13 September 1894 – 3 October 1960) was a British trade unionist, politician and Member of Parliament (MP). Life Brown grew up in Margate in Kent and served as general secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association ...

(William John Brown, 1896–1960), MP for Rugby 1942–1950 * William Robson Brown (1900–1975), UK Conservative politician, MP for Esher 1950–1970 * Oliver Brown (Scottish activist) (William Oliver Brown, 1903–1976), Scottish nationalist activist * William Brown (Northern Ireland politician) (born 1930), Northern Irish unionist politician, MPA for South Down 1982–1986 *Sir William Slater Brown (Lord Provost), Scottish businessman and Lord Provost of Edinburgh

United States

* William Brown (congressman) (1779–1833), U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1819–1821 * William Brown (Illinois politician) (1819–1891), member of the Illinois House of Representatives * William Brown (Massachusetts judge) (1737–1802), Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature *

William Anderson Brown William Anderson Brown (August 4, 1861 – September 26, 1940) was an American lawyer and politician. Brown was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He went to University of Pennsylvania and then received his law degree from University of Michiga ...

(1861–1940), lawyer, member of the Minnesota legislature * William Denis Brown III (1931–2012), Louisiana state senator from 1968 to 1976 * William E. Brown Jr. (1896–1970), mayor of Ann Arbor, 1945–1957 * William G. Brown Sr. (1800–1884), U.S. Representative from Virginia and West Virginia *

William Gay Brown Jr. William Gay Brown Jr. (April 7, 1856 – March 9, 1916) was a lawyer, and Democratic politician from West Virginia who served as a United States representative. Congressman Brown was born in Kingwood, West Virginia in Preston County (then in ...

(1856–1916), U.S. Representative from West Virginia, son of William G. Brown *

William Wallace Brown William Wallace Brown (April 22, 1836 – November 4, 1926) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Biography William W. Brown was born in Summerhill, New York. He moved with his parents to Elk County, P ...

(1836–1926), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania *William Brown, mayor of Rockford, 1857–1858, see List of mayors of Rockford, Illinois * William Holmes Brown (1929–2001), Parliamentarian of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1974–1994 * William J. Brown (Ohio politician) (1940–1999), Ohio Attorney General, elected 1970 * William J. Brown (Indiana politician) (1805–1857), U.S. Representative from Indiana *

W. K. Brown William K. Brown (January 7, 1923 – July 13, 2011) was an American politician. He served as a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Life and career Brown attended Dry Prong High School and Louisiana State University. ...

(1923–2011), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Grant Parish, 1960–72 * William L. Brown (politician) (1840–1906), Ohio and New York politician *

William Little Brown William Little Brown (August 9, 1789 – February 28, 1830) was a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1822 to 1824. Brown was born near Cheraw, South Carolina, to Morgan Brown and Elizabeth Little who laid out Palmyra, Tennessee. Aft ...

(1789–1830), justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court * William M. Brown (Pennsylvania politician) (1850–1915), U.S. Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, electee to the U.S. House of Representatives * William W. Brown (Wisconsin politician) (died 1871), American politician * William Matt Brown (1815–1885), mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, 1865–1867 * William Ripley Brown (1840–1916), U.S. Representative from Kansas * William Andreas Brown (born 1930), U.S. Ambassador to Israel, 1988–1992

Elsewhere

* William Brown (British Columbia politician) (1838–1???), politician in British Columbia, Canada *

William Brown (Manitoba politician) William Brown was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1922 to 1927. Brown lived in Roland, Manitoba. He was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1922 provincial election as a candid ...

, Canadian politician, 1922–1927 * William Heartz Brown (1883–1967), Canadian politician in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly *

William Brown (New Zealand politician) William Brown (circa 1809/1810 – 19 January 1898) was a 19th-century Scottish-born New Zealand politician, merchant and newspaper proprietor. Early life Brown was born in Angus, Scotland, in 1809 or 1810. He moved to New Zealand on 2 February ...

(1809–1898), member of first New Zealand Parliament

Writers

William Brown (journalist) William Brown (1737–1789) was a Canadian journalist and the co-founder of the ''Quebec Gazette''. He was born in Scotland. He arrived in Quebec City on 30 September 1763, a week before the Province of Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to ...

(1737–1789), Canadian journalist and co-founder of the Quebec Gazette *

William Hill Brown William Hill Brown (November 1765 – September 2, 1793) was an American novelist, the author of what is usually considered the first American novel, ''The Power of Sympathy'' (1789), and "Harriot, or the Domestic Reconciliation", as well as th ...

(1765–1793), American novelist *

William Wells Brown William Wells Brown (c. 1814 – November 6, 1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian in the United States. Born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, near the town of Mount Sterling, Brown escape ...

(1814–1884), fugitive slave, African-American writer, and abolitionist *

William Slater Brown William Slater Brown (November 13, 1896 – June 22, 1997) was an American novelist, biographer, and translator of French literature. Most notably, he was a friend of the poet E. E. Cummings and is best known as the character "B." in Cummi ...

(1896–1997), American novelist, biographer and translator * William F. Brown (writer) (1928–2019), American playwright * William Henry Brown (journalist) (1860s–1950), British co-operative movement journalist and activist

Other notable people

* William Brown (physician) (1748–1792), American physician * William D. Brown (1813–1863), founder of Omaha, Nebraska *

William Brown (miner) William Brown (1824 or 1825 – 21 September 1900) was a British coal miner who became a prominent trade unionist. Born in Rothwell, West Yorkshire, Brown worked as a coalminer from the age of ten. He settled in Hunslet, near Leeds, working a ...

(died 1900), British trade union leader * William Penn Brown (1841–1929), American pioneer in the hobby of stamp collecting * William J. Brown (architect) (died 1970), American architect * William Kellock Brown (1856–1934), Scottish sculptor *

William Lincoln Brown William Lincoln Brown (1862–1940) was the second Register of Copyrights (1934–36) in the United States Copyright Office. He presided over the office during a time when Congress was active in proposing copyright legislation in the wake ...

(1862–1940), second Register of Copyrights in the United States Copyright Office *

William Robinson Brown William Robinson "W. R. " Brown (January 17, 1875 – August 4, 1955) was an American corporate officer of the Brown Company of Berlin, New Hampshire. He was also an influential Arabian horse breeder, the founder and owner of the Maynesb ...

(1875–1955), American horse breeder and director of the Brown Company *

William B. Brown William Burbridge Brown (10 September 1912, in Chillicothe, Ohio – 24 December 1985), was a lawyer who served a variety of positions in the Territory of Hawaii from 1943 to 1955, before returning to serve on the Ohio District Courts of Appe ...

(1912–1985), American lawyer and judge in Hawaii and Ohio *William Theophilus Brown (1919–2012), American artist *

William H. Brown III William H. Brown III (born January 19, 1928) is an American attorney. In 1963, he became a partner at the law firm of Norris Schmidt Green Harris Higginbotham & Brown, Philadelphia's first black-owned law firm. Brown was appointed to the U.S. ...

(born 1928), African American attorney, fourth Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission * William Brown (tenor) (1938–2004), American opera singer * W. Earl Brown (born 1963), American character actor * William Mason Brown (1828–1898), American artist * William M. Brown (businessman) (born 1963), American businessman, CEO of Harris Corporation *

William Brown (composer) William Brown was an 18th-century American composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, ...

(1790–1884), American composer and flutist * William Brown (headmaster) (1914–2005), British headmaster *

William Alexander Brown William Alexander Brown, also known as William Henry Brown (1790–1884), was an American playwright and theatrical producer. He is considered the first known black playwright in America. Biography Brown was born in the West Indies, and worked t ...

, African-American playwright and theatrical producer * Sir William Richmond Brown, 2nd Baronet, English landowner *Sir William Brown (civil servant), English civil servant *

William Charles Langdon Brown William Charles Langdon Brown (9 September 1931 – 29 June 2024) was a British banker of the Standard Chartered Bank. He was an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1980 to 1985. Biography Brown was born on 9 Septembe ...

, British banker *

William H. Brown (shipbuilder) William H. Brown (June 16, 1803 – October 27, 1855) was an American shipbuilder during the 19th-century. He built yachts, paddle steamers and steamboats. He was one of the first shipbuilders in the country and had his business for more than thi ...

, American shipbuilder * Guillermo E. Brown (born 1976), American drummer and multi-disciplinary performer * William Roger Brown (1831–1902), British industrialist and philanthropist *William Brown, better known as Compa, British electronic musician

Other uses

*William Brown,the main character in the ''Just William'' series * ''William Brown'' (ship), American ship which struck an iceberg and sank on April 19, 1841 *

William Brown Library and Museum The William Brown Library and Museum is a Grade II* listed building situated on the historic William Brown Street in Liverpool, England. The building currently houses part of the World Museum Liverpool and Liverpool Central Library. The ...

, historic building in Liverpool, England * William Brown Street, Liverpool