William Williams may refer to:

Art and literature

* William Williams (artist) (1727–1791), artist and author of American novel ''Penrose'' *

William Joseph Williams William Joseph Williams (November 17, 1759 – November 30, 1823) was an American portrait and miniature painter. Biography He was born in New York City, the son of William Williams, a Welsh painter born in Bristol, and Mary Mare Williams, s ...

(1759–1823), artist who painted three presidents *

William Williams (antiquary) William Williams (Gwilym Ddu o Arfon) (1739–1817) was a Welsh antiquarian, known also as a poet. Life Williams was born in February 1739 in Ty Mawr, Trefdraeth, Anglesey from William ap Huw ap Sion, a stonemason. After a short time at school ...

(Gwilym Ddu o Arfon, 1739–1817), Welsh historian and poet * William Williams (Carw Coch) (1808–1872, bardic name Carw Coch), Welsh literary figure * William Williams (Creuddynfab) (1814–1869), Welsh poet and literary critic *

William Williams (Crwys) William Williams (4 January 1875 – 13 January 1968), better known by his bardic name of "Crwys", meaning "Cross", was a Welsh poet in the Welsh language. He served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1939 to 1947. Like all ot ...

(1875–1968, bardic name Crwys), Welsh-language poet *

William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pedia ...

(1883–1963), American poet * William T. Williams (born 1942), New York painter

Military

William Williams (printer and publisher) William Williams (October 12, 1787 – June 10, 1850) was an American printer, publisher and bookseller, originally from Massachusetts. He moved to New Hartford, New York, with his family and soon established himself in the printing and newsp ...

(1787-1850) Printer, publisher and colonel during the

War of 1812 The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States, United States of America and its Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous allies against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom ...

* William Williams (soldier) (died 1814), soldier killed in defense of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812 * William Orton Williams (1839–1863), Confederate officer executed as a spy *

William Williams (Medal of Honor) William Williams (1840 – May 5, 1893) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for helping to free his grounded ship. Military service A native of Irela ...

(1840–1893), Medal of Honor recipient of the American Civil War * William Haliday Williams (1845–1916), American Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor recipient * William Charles Williams (1880–1915), Victoria Cross recipient of the First World War * William Williams (VC) (1890–1965), Victoria Cross recipient of the First World War * William

Fenwick Williams General Sir William Fenwick Williams, 1st Baronet (4 December 180026 July 1883) was a Nova Scotian military leader for the British during the Victorian era. Williams is remembered for his defence of the town of Kars during the Crimean War. He ...

(1800–1883), Canadian-born British military leader *

William Williams (naval officer) Captain William Williams ( - 22 October 1780) was an American naval officer in the American Revolution. He was imprisoned twice by the British and participated in the Battle off Halifax (1780). Career He commanded a privateer from Providence, ...

, American naval officer in the American Revolution

Politics

U.S.

William Williams (Connecticut politician) William Williams (April 8, 1731 – August 2, 1811) was an American Founding Father, merchant, a delegate for Connecticut to the Continental Congress in 1776, and a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence. Early life Will ...

(1731–1811), US Continental Congressman *

William M. Williams (Texas politician) William M. Williams was a 19th-century Texan politician who served in the Texas House and Senate from 1846 to 1853 and from 1855 to 1857. Life Williams was born on March 28, 1809, to currently unknown parents in Pittsylvania, Virginia. He moved ...

(1809–1859), politician in the Texas House and Senate *

William Williams (New York politician) William Williams (September 6, 1815 – September 10, 1876) was a U.S. Representative from New York, member of the New York State Assembly, railroad executive, and banker. Early life William Williams was born in Bolton, Connecticut, on Sep ...

(1815–1876), US Representative from New York *

William Williams (Indiana politician) William Williams (May 11, 1821 – April 22, 1896) was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1867 to 1875. Biography Born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Williams attended the common scho ...

(1821–1896), US Representative from Indiana * William B. Williams (politician) (1826–1905), US Representative from Michigan * William M. Williams Jr. (1846–?), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly * William E. Williams (1857–1921), U.S. Representative from Illinois * William R. Williams (1884–1972), US Representative from the state of New York *

William Reid Williams William Reid Williams (1866 - July 24, 1931) was the United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1920 to 1921. Biography He was born in 1866. He was the United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1920 to 1921. He died on July 24, 1931, in Ric ...

(1866–1931), United States Assistant Secretary of War * William Williams (surgeon) (1856–1919), Surgeon General * William Williams (commissioner) (1862–1947), Commissioner of Immigration, Ellis Island *

William R. Williams (California politician) William Robert Williams (August 11, 1884 – May 9, 1972) was an American politician from New York. Life He was born on August 11, 1884, in Brookfield, New York. He moved to Cassville in 1891. He was a salesman with Standard Oil from 1907 to 1 ...

California State Treasurer The state treasurer of California is a constitutional officer in the executive branch of the government of the U.S. state of California. Thirty-five individuals have held the office of state treasurer since statehood. The incumbent is Fiona M ...

, 1907–1911

UK

Sir William Williams, 6th Baronet Sir William Williams, 6th Baronet (– 23 December 1696) of Faenol (Vaynol) was a Welsh politician and landowner elected as MP for Caernarvonshire from 1689 until his death. Career Williams was born in around 1663, the son of Sir Griffith ...

(died 1696), Welsh politician * Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Gray's Inn (1634–1700), Welsh lawyer and politician, speaker of the House of Commons * Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn (1665–1740), Welsh politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Denbigh, 1708–1710 *

William Peere Williams (1664–1736) William Peere Williams ( – 10 June 1736) was an English politician. He was Member of Parliament for Bishop's Castle from 1722 to 1727. Williams was born in Greyfriars, Chichester, Sussex, England Sussex (), from the Old English (), i ...

, MP for Bishop's Castle, 1722–1727 *

Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Clapton Sir William Peere Williams, 2nd Baronet, MP (''c.'' 1730 – 27 April 1761) was an English politician in Great Britain. He was born in Clapton, Northamptonshire, England, to Sir Hutchins Williams, 1st Baronet of Clapton, and Anne Hutchins. He ...

(1730–1761), MP for New Shoreham, 1758–1751 *

William Addams Williams William Addams Williams (10 August 1787 – 5 September 1861) was a Welsh lawyer, landowner and politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire from 1831–41. Family He was the eldest son of William Addams Williams of Llangibby C ...

(1787–1861), British Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire * William Williams (Radical politician) (1788–1865), Welsh businessman based in London, Radical MP 1835–1847 and 1850–1865 *

William Williams (Swansea MP) William-Williams-AS. William Williams (1840 – 21 April 1904) was a Welsh businessman and Liberal party politician. Williams started work as a boy on the cold rolling lines of the Upper Forest Tinplate Works, Morriston, Swansea. His leg was ...

(1840–1904), British Member of Parliament for Swansea District 1893–1895 *

William Williams (Labour politician) William Richard Williams (1 March 1895 – 11 September 1963) was a British civil servant and politician who made a particular specialism of the Post Office. Post Office career Born in Wales to a quarryman father, Williams went to elementary sch ...

(1895–1963), British civil servant and politician *

Thomas Williams (Warrington MP) Sir William Thomas Williams, QC (22 September 1915 – 28 February 1986) was a British Labour Co-operative politician. Williams was educated at University College, Cardiff and St Catherine's College, Oxford. He was President of the South Wale ...

(William Thomas Williams, 1915–1986), British Member of Parliament for Warrington * William Williams (Weymouth MP) (1774–1839), British Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis * W. Llewelyn Williams (1867–1922), Welsh journalist, lawyer and Liberal Party politician

Other countries

* William Williams (New South Wales politician) (1856–1947), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly *

William Williams (Tasmanian politician) William Micah Williams (24 May 1851 – 11 August 1924) was an Australian politician, commonly referred to as W. M. Williams. He was born in New Norfolk, Van Diemen's Land. In 1916 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the I ...

(1851–1924), member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council

Religion

William Williams (Archdeacon of Cashel) William Williams was a 17th-century Anglican clergyman. Dassy was born in Mona, Anglesey and educated at Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto ...

(fl. 17th century), Irish Anglican clergyman *

William Williams of Wern William Williams of Wern (18 November 1781 (baptised) – 17 March 1840) was an Independent minister in Wales, and the promoter of the "General Union" movement of 1834. He was one of three "giants of the Welsh pulpit", along with John Elias and C ...

(1781–1840), Welsh Independent minister, promoter of the General Union movement of 1834 *

William Williams (bishop) :''To be distinguished from William Williams (missionary) (1859–1892) in Khasi Hills India'' William Williams (18 July 1800 – 9 February 1878) was consecrated as the first Anglican Bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand, on 3 April 1859 by the Ge ...

(1800–1878), bishop of Waiapu in New Zealand *

William Williams (Caledfryn) William Williams (pen name "Caledfryn" or "Gwilym Caledfryn") (6 February 1801 – 23 March 1869) was a Welsh Congregational Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches or Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Calvini ...

(1801–1869), Welsh Congregational minister, poet and literary critic * Leonard Williams (bishop) (William Leonard Williams, 1829–1916), third bishop of Waiapu in New Zealand *

William Augustine Williams William Augustine Williams (also William Augustine Willyams/Willyms or Gullielmus Williams; May 26, 1836 — May 21, 1901) was an African-American linguist, librarian, Catholic seminarian, and public figure. He was the first openly African-Americ ...

, African-American linguist, librarian, Catholic seminarian, and public figure * William Williams (priest) (1848–1930), Dean of St David's, 1919–1931 * William Williams (minister) (1848–1913), Australian Methodist minister and president-general of the

Methodist Church of Australasia The Methodist Church of Australasia was a Methodist denomination based in Australia. On 1 January 1902, five Methodist denominations in Australia – the Wesleyan Methodist Church, the Primitive Methodists, the Bible Christian Church, the Unite ...

1907–1910 * William A. Williams (creationist) (1854–1938), American Presbyterian clergyman and creationist writer * William Williams (missionary) (1859–1892), Welsh missionary to East Khasi Hills, India *

William Richard Williams (theologian) William Richard Williams (4 April 1896 – 18 December 1962) was the Principal of the United Theological College, Aberystwyth from 1949 to 1962, the first Secretary of the Council of Churches of Wales, and later its president.

(1896–1962), theologian and principal of the United Theological College Aberystwyth

Sports

Football and rugby

William Williams (footballer, born 1856) William Williams (born 1856) was a Welsh amateur association football, footballer who played most of his football career with Druids F.C., the Druids club of Ruabon. Generally playing at Defender (association football), half-back, he made eleven ...

(1856–?), Welsh international footballer in the 1870s and 1880s *

William Williams (footballer, born 1892) William David Williams (16 November 1892 – 1926) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Blackpool and Everton. Williams died in 1926 of meningitis Meningitis is acute or chronic inflammation of the protective memb ...

(1892–1926), English footballer * William Williams (rugby union) (1866–1945), Welsh rugby union footballer in the 1880s and 1890s * William Henry Williams (rugby union) (1873–1936), Welsh rugby union footballer who played in the 1900s for Wales, Pontymister RFC, and London Welsh RFC * Billy Williams (rugby, born 1925) (1925–2007), Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer in the 1940s * William Williams (Halifax RLFC) (20th century), Welsh rugby league footballer in the 1900s and 1910s *

William M. Williams (American football) William Martin Williams (September 12, 1877 – March 30, 1932) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at of the Clemson University in 1897. Williams was a graduate of Auburn University. He later attended Harvard ...

(1877–1932), head coach of the Clemson college football program in 1897 * J. William Williams (1880–1908), American football player and coach *

John Williams (footballer, born 1960) William John Williams (born 3 October 1960) is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He made 415 league and cup appearances in a 15-year career in the English Football League, scoring 27 goals. He began his care ...

(William John Williams), English footballer

Other sports

William Williams (baseball) William Joseph Williams, Sr. (1916 – August 23, 2009) was the co-owner of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team of the National League from through with his brother James Williams. They sold the Reds to Marge Schott in 1984. Williams was a part ...

(1916–2009), co-owner of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team *

William Williams (cricketer, born 1844) William Williams (25 November 1844 – 12 March 1885) was an English first-class cricketer active 1862–78 who played for Nottinghamshire. He was born in Nottingham and died in Wandsworth. He played in fifteen first-class matches as a right-han ...

(1844–1885), English cricketer * Will Williams (born 1992), New Zealand cricketer

Other

William Williams Pantycelyn William Williams, Pantycelyn (c. 11 February 1717 – 11 January 1791), also known as William Williams, Williams Pantycelyn, and Pantycelyn, is generally seen as Wales's premier hymnist. He is also rated among the great literary figures of Wale ...

(1717–1791), Welsh composer of hymns * William S. Williams (1787–1849), mountain man and frontiersman * William Williams (c.1803–1858), brewer in the colony of South Australia * William S. Williams, travelled to South Australia on the ''Cygnet'' in the

First Fleet of South Australia In 1836, at least nine ships in 1836 carried the first European settlers from England to the south coast of Australia for the establishment of the City of Adelaide and the province of South Australia. Although not all of the ships sailed toge ...

in 1836 *

William Mattieu Williams William Mattieu Williams (6 February 1820 – 28 November 1892) was an English writer on science and educator. Life The son of Abraham Williams, a fishmonger in London, and his wife Louise, daughter of Gabriel Mattieu, a Swiss refugee, he was b ...

(1820–1892), English writer on science *

William Williams (veterinary surgeon) William Williams Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE PRCVS (1832–1900) was a Welsh veterinary surgeon who served as Principal (academia), principal of the Dick Veterinary College in Edinburgh (1867–73) and as president of the Royal ...

(1832–1900), Welsh veterinary surgeon *

William Owen Williams William Owen Williams FRSE FRCVS (1860–1911) was a Yorkshire-born veterinarian of Welsh descent. Life He was born in Bradford in 1860, the son of William Williams and his wife Caroline Owen. Caroline died in 1867 when young William was onl ...

(1860–1911), British veterinarian * William Aubrey Williams (1834–1891), bardic name

Gwilym Gwent Gwilym Gwent (born William Aubrey Williams on November 28, 1834 and died on July 3, 1891), was a Welsh-born composer who immigrated in mid-life to the United States. Early life William Aubrey Williams was born at Tredegar in 1834, where as a boy ...

), Welsh composer * William Muir Williams, judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri in 1898 * William Henry Williams (1852–1941), English-born Australian headmaster and professor * William Williams (doctor) (1855/6–1911), Welsh doctor and writer on sanitation issues * William Williams (murderer) (1877–1906), last person executed by Minnesota * William M. Williams, US

Commissioner of Internal Revenue The Commissioner of Internal Revenue is the head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), an agency within the United States Department of the Treasury. The office of Commissioner was created by Congress as part of the Revenue Act of 1862. Section ...

1920–1921 * William Emrys Williams (1896–1977), British educationalist and editor-in-chief of Penguin Books * William Williams (surveyor) (1901–1995), British academic at Cambridge * William H. Williams (1910–1999), British production manager and producer * W. T. Williams (William Thomas Williams, 1913–1995), English and Australian botanist and plant taxonomist *

William Appleman Williams William Appleman Williams (June 12, 1921 – March 5, 1990) was one of the 20th century's most prominent revisionist historians of American diplomacy. He achieved the height of his influence while on the faculty of the department of history at th ...

(1921–1990), American historian * William B. Williams (DJ) (1923–1986), disc jockey on New York City radio station WNEW * William Williams (metallurgist) (1927–2011), Canadian metallurgical engineer * William T. B. Williams, dean at the Tuskegee Institute *

William Williams (brewer) William Williams (1803 – 26 April 1858) was an early settler in the Province of South Australia, known for establishing the Walkerville Brewery and for his work on the Kaurna language. He was Deputy Colonial Storekeeper for some time. Early ...

, settler and brewer in the Province of South Australia * William Morgan Williams, presenter of a 1969

Frazer Lecture The Sir James George Frazer Memorial Lectureship in Social Anthropology is a British academic lecture series. In 1920 a sum of £675 was raised by a Committee of the University of Cambridge for the purpose of commemorating Sir James Frazer's cont ...

* William Williams, character in 2006 film

American Dreamz ''American Dreamz'' is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Paul Weitz. It satirizes both popular entertainment and American politics during the second Bush administration, called a "cultural satire" by Weitz. Reviews were mixed and the f ...