William Mills may refer to:

Politics

* William Mills (1750–1820), MP for St Ives 1790–96 and Coventry 1805–12 * William J. Mills (1849–1915), Governor of the New Mexico Territory * William George Mills (1859–1933), sheep breeder and politician in South Australia *

William Oswald Mills William Oswald Mills Sr. (August 12, 1924 – May 24, 1973), was a Republican U.S. congressman who represented the 1st Congressional district of Maryland from May 25, 1971, until his death in Easton, Maryland, on May 24, 1973. Life and ca ...

(1924–1973), American politician * William Thomas Mills (1924–2011), merchant and politician in Ontario, Canada *William Stratton Mills (born 1932), politician in Northern Ireland * William Mills (Lord Provost) (1776–1857), Scottish cotton merchant and Lord Provost of Glasgow * William Ellison Mills (1859–1930), American leather manufacturer and politician from New York

Sports

* William Mills (English cricketer) (1820–1877), English lawyer and cricketer * William Mills (New Zealand cricketer) (1875–1962), New Zealand cricketer * Willie Mills (baseball) (1877–1933), American professional baseball pitcher * Billy Mills (footballer) (1891–19???), English professional footballer * Billy Mills (racing driver) (1898–1937), South African racing driver *

Willie Mills William Mills (28 January 1915 – 1991) was a professional footballer, who played for Aberdeen, Huddersfield Town, Dumbarton and Clyde. He was born in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Playing career Mills was signed by Aberdeen from ...

(1915–1991), Scottish professional footballer * Bill Mills (baseball) (1919–2019), Major League Baseball player *

Billy Mills William Mervin Mills (born June 30, 1938), also known by his Oglala Lakota name Tamakhóčhe Theȟíla, is an American Oglala Lakota former track and field athlete who won a gold medal in the 10,000 metre run (6.2 mi) at the 1964 Tokyo O ...

(born 1938), American Olympic athlete

Others

William Mills (actor) William Mills (1701–1750) was a British stage actor. The son of veteran stage actor John Mills and his wife Margaret Mills, he was born in London and baptised at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 29 June 1701. Under his father's guidance he made his ...

(1701–1750), British stage actor * William Augustus Mills (1777–1844), American major general in the War of 1812 *

William Mills (surveyor) William Whitfield Mills (19 November 1844 – 18 August 1916), usually referred to as "W. Whitfield Mills" or "W. W. Mills", was an English surveyor of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line who is best known for naming a waterhole in Central A ...

(1844–1916), Australian surveyor *

William Mills (bishop) The Rt Rev William Lennox Mills was Bishop of Ontario from 1901 until 1917. Born in Woodstock, Ontario and educated at Huron College, he was ordained in 1873. His first post was at ''Trinity Church, Norwich, Ontario'' after which he was Rector o ...

(1846–1917), Canadian Anglican bishop of Ontario *

William Mills (inventor) Sir William Mills (24 April 1856 – 7 January 1932) was an English engineer. He invented the Mills bomb, which was developed and manufactured at his factory in Birmingham, England. The Mills bomb was the hand grenade most widely used by UK, B ...

(1856–1932), inventor of the Mills bomb * William Corless Mills (1860–1928), American museum curator * William Mills (businessman) (1866–1916), Western Australian businessman *

William Hobson Mills William Hobson Mills FRS (6 July 1873 – 22 February 1959) was a British organic chemist. Biography William Hobson Mills was born in Hammersmith on 6 July 1873, the eldest of five children of William Henry Mills, an architect, and Emily Wil ...

(1873–1959), British organic chemist * William Harold Mills (1921–2007), American mathematician *

Billy G. Mills Billy Gene Mills (born November 19, 1929) is a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge and a former Los Angeles City Council member, serving from 1963 to 1974. He was one of the first three African-Americans elected to the council. Biography Mi ...

(born 1929), Los Angeles Superior Court judge and City Council member *

Billy Mills (poet) Billy Mills (born 1954) is an Irish experimental poet and the founder and co-editor, with Catherine Walsh, of the hardPressed poetry imprint and ''the Journal''. hardPressed publishes and distributes mainly Irish poetry "that you won't often fi ...

(born 1954), Irish poet {{human name disambiguation, Mills, William