William Cox, Will Cox, Bill Cox, or Billy Cox may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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Bill Cox (1897–1968), American country and folk musician
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Billy Cox (born 1941), American bassist best known for playing with guitarist Jimi Hendrix
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Will Cox (actor), Australian actor associated with Independent Theatre, an Adelaide theatre company
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William R. Cox (1901–1988), writer of short stories and Western and mystery novels
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William Trevor
William Trevor Cox (24 May 1928 – 20 November 2016) was an Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of sho ...
(1928–2016), Irish novelist
Military
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William Cox (British general) (1776–1864), British general of the peninsular war, in
Siege of Almeida
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William Ruffin Cox
William Ruffin Cox (March 11, 1831/1832December 26, 1919) was an American soldier and politician from the state of North Carolina. He was a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, a three-term member of the United Stat ...
(1832–1919), Confederate general in the United States Civil War, later Secretary of the United States
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William Reginald Cox (1905–1988), British Army officer
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William Sitgreaves Cox (1790–1874), court-martialled acting third lieutenant of the USS ''Chesapeake''
Law
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William Cox (Nova Scotia lawyer) (1921–2008), past president of the Canadian Bar Association
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William Harold Cox
William Harold Cox (June 23, 1901 – February 25, 1988) was an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. H ...
(1901–1988), U.S. federal judge
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William John Cox
William John "Billy Jack" Cox (born February 15, 1941) is an American public interest lawyer and author.
Biography Early career
Employed in 1962 by the El Cajon Police Department, he attended the nearby San Diego Police Department Academy. I ...
(born 1941), American public interest lawyer, prosecutor, author and political activist
Politicians
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William Cox (British politician) (1817–1889), Member of Parliament for Finsbury 1857–1859, 1861–1865
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William Cox (governor) (born 1936), known as Bill Cox, Governor of the state of Tasmania, Australia
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William E. Cox (1861–1942), U.S. Representative from Indiana
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William H. Cox Jr. (born 1942), American politician from Maryland
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William Hopkinson Cox (1856–1950), American politician; Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
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William Thomas Cox (1808–1877), British politician
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William Wesley Cox (1865–1948), presidential, vice presidential, and perennial U.S. Senate candidate of the Socialist Labor Party
Sports
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Bill Cox (American football) (1929–2017), former American football end
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Bill Cox (baseball) (1913–1988), American Major League Baseball pitcher and Illinois state legislator
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Bill Cox (golfer) (1910–1985), author and professional golfer at Fulwell Golf Club from 1946 to 1975
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Bill Cox (footballer) (1880–1915), English football centre forward
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Bill Cox (runner) (1904–1996), United States Olympic medallist
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Bill Cox (speed skater) (born 1947), American Olympic speed skater
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Billy Cox (baseball)
William Richard Cox (August 29, 1919 – March 30, 1978) was an American professional baseball third baseman and shortstop. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers, and Baltimore Orioles. He was one o ...
(1919–1978), American Major League Baseball middle infielder
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William Cox (wrestler), British Olympic wrestler
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William D. Cox
William Drought Cox (November 8, 1909 – March 28, 1989) was an American businessman and sports executive.
Early life
Cox was born in 1909, growing up on Riverside Drive on Manhattan's Upper West Side. He graduated from high school at the ag ...
(1909–1989), American businessman and sports executive
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William Samuel Cox (1831–1895), Australian racecourse owner, namesake of the Cox Plate
Others
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William Cox (pioneer) (1764–1837), constructor of the road across the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia
* William Cox (1848-1907), engineer and inventor of the duplex slide rule (see
Slide rule
A slide rule is a hand-operated mechanical calculator consisting of slidable rulers for conducting mathematical operations such as multiplication, division, exponents, roots, logarithms, and trigonometry. It is one of the simplest analog ...
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William Denton Cox (1883–1912), heroic steward aboard RMS ''Titanic''
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William George Cox
William George Cox (ca. 1821 – 6 October 1878) was Gold Commissioner for the Cariboo and Boundary Country, Boundary Districts in the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866), Colony of British Columbia, Canada during the Rock Creek Gold Rus ...
(c. 1821–1878), Gold Commissioner for the Cariboo and Boundary Districts in the Colony of British Columbia, Canada
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William M. Cox (1942–2017), American highways administrator
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William Sands Cox (1802–1875), surgeon in Birmingham, England
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William Cox (bishop) (1921–2025), American Episcopalian bishop
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William T. L. Cox (born 1984), American social psychologist
See also
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William Cox Ellis (1787–1871), member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
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George William Cox (1827–1902), British historian
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William Coxe (disambiguation)
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William Cocks (disambiguation)
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William Cocke
William Cocke (1748August 22, 1828) was an American lawyer, pioneer, and statesman. He has the distinction of having served in the state legislatures of four different states: Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi, and was one of ...
(1748–1828), American lawyer
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