William Brooks may refer to: * William Thomas Brooks (1889–1943), police officer that led 1923 Victorian police strike *

William Brooks (Australian politician) William Brooks (31 December 1858 – 14 October 1937) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in Tiverton in Devon to lacehand James Brooks and Mary Ann Williams. He attended boarding school locally and began work as a compo ...

(1858–1937), New South Wales politician *

William Brooks (footballer) William Henry Brooks (born July 1873) was an English footballer. His regular position was as a forward. He was born in Stalybridge, Cheshire. He played for Manchester United Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It ha ...

(1873–?), English footballer * William Brooks (died 1782), founder of English gentlemen's club

Brooks's Brooks's is a gentlemen's club in St James's Street, London. It is one of the oldest and most exclusive gentlemen's clubs in the world. History In January 1762, a private society was established at 50 Pall Mall by Messrs. Boothby and James ...

William Brooks, 2nd Baron Crawshaw William Brooks, 2nd Baron Crawshaw DL (16 October 1853 – 19 January 1929) was a British peer. He was the eldest son of Thomas Brooks, 1st Baron Crawshaw and married Mary Ethel Hicks-Beach (1853 -1 October 1914) on 12 October 1882 daughter of ...

(1853–1929), English nobleman *

William Brooks of Blackburn William Brooks (1762–1846) was a supplier of cotton to spinners around Whalley and Blackburn. He was the son of John Brooks of Waddington, Lancashire. He went into partnership with Roger Cunliffe, of the Cunliffe family of Great Harwood, who ...

(1762–1846), cotton supplier * William

Collin Brooks Collin Brooks (22 December 1893 – 1959), frequently known as "CB", was a British journalist, writer, and broadcaster. In 1913 he founded the Manchester Press Agency. In 1915 he joined the British Army, where he was awarded the Military Cross as ...

(1893–1959), British journalist, writer and broadcaster *

William Cunliffe Brooks Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st Baronet, (30 September 1819 – 9 June 1900) was an English barrister, banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1869 and 1892. Life Brooks was the son of Samuel Brooks ...

(1819–1900), British lawyer and politician *

William Edwin Brooks William Edwin Brooks (30 July 1828 near Dublin, Ireland – 18 January 1899 in Mount Forest, Ontario) was a civil engineer in India and an ornithologist. He later settled in Canada where his son Allan Cyril Brooks also became an ornithologist an ...

(1828–1899), Irish civil engineer and ornithologist *

Bucky Brooks William Eldridge "Bucky" Brooks Jr. (born January 22, 1971) is a sportswriter and former professional American football player. He played for five National Football League (NFL) teams in a five-year career, primarily as a kick returner. Brooks i ...

(William Eldridge Brooks, Jr., born 1971), American football player and sportswriter *

Bill Brooks (coach) William Jasper Brooks (October 13, 1922 – November 8, 2010) was an American baseball and basketball coach who is best known for developing the University of North Carolina at Wilmington athletics program from a junior college to a Division I ...

(William J. Brooks, 1922–2010), American baseball and basketball coach *

William Keith Brooks William Keith Brooks (March 25, 1848 – November 12, 1908) was an American zoologist, born in Cleveland, Ohio, March 25, 1848. Brooks studied embryological development in invertebrates and founded a marine biological laboratory where he and ot ...

(1848–1908), American zoologist *

William L. Brooks William L. "Buffalo Bill" Brooks ( – July 29, 1874) was a western lawman and later outlaw. Brooks was born in Ohio around 1832 where he later became a buffalo hunter in the late-1840s or early-1850s whose success equaled fellow buffalo hunter ...

(1832–1874), American western outlaw *

Bill Brooks (wide receiver) William T. Brooks Jr. (born April 6, 1964) is a former American football wide receiver who was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the fourth round of the 1986 NFL Draft. A 6'1", . wide receiver from Boston University, Brooks played in 11 Nat ...

(William T. Brooks, Jr., born 1964), former American football player *

Bud Brooks William "Bud" Brooks was an American football player for the Arkansas Razorbacks and the winner of the 1954 Outland Trophy as the year's best interior lineman. Brooks played guard and defensive tackle for the Razorbacks and was selected first-t ...

(William Brooks, 1930–2005), American football player * Billy Brooks (William McKinley Brooks III, born 1953), American football player *

William A. Brooks William Allen Brooks Jr. (August 15, 1864 – May 20, 1921) was an American surgeon, college football player, Coach (sport), coach, referee, and Rowing (sport), rower. He played football and participated in rowing at Harvard Crimson, Harvard and ...

(1864–1921), American surgeon, football player, coach, official, and rower * William Michael Clifton Brooks, 4th

Baron Crawshaw Baron Crawshaw, of Crawshaw in the County Palatine of Lancaster and of Whatton in the County of Leicester is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 25 August 1892 for Sir Thomas Brooks, 1st Baronet. He notably served as ...

(1933–1997), English nobleman *

William P. Brooks William Penn Brooks (November 19, 1851 – March 8, 1938) was an American agricultural scientist, who worked as a foreign advisor in Meiji period Japan during the colonization project for Hokkaidō. He was the eighth president of the Massachuset ...

(1851–1938), American agricultural scientist *

William Robert Brooks William Robert Brooks (June 11, 1844 – May 3, 1921) was a British-born American astronomer, mainly noted as being one of the most prolific discoverers of new comets of all time, second only to Jean-Louis Pons. Early life William Robert ...

(1844–1921), American astronomer *

William T. H. Brooks William Thomas Harbaugh Brooks (January 28, 1821 – July 19, 1870) was a career military officer in the United States Army, serving as a major general during the American Civil War. Early life Brooks was born in New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Ohi ...

(1821–1870), Union Army general during the American Civil War *

William Frederick Brooks William Frederick Brooks (March 1, 1863 – March 19, 1928) was an American businessman and politician. Brooks was born in Battle Creek, Michigan Battle Creek is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, in northwest Calhoun County, Michigan, C ...

(1863–1928), American businessman and politician

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