William Mitchell may refer to:

People

Media and the arts

William Mitchell (sculptor) William George Mitchell (30 April 1925 – 30 January 2020) was an English sculptor, artist and designer. He is best known for his large scale concrete murals and public works of art from the 1960s and 1970s. His work is often of an abstract o ...

(1925–2020), English sculptor and muralist *

William Frederick Mitchell William Frederick Mitchell (Calshot, 1845–1914, Ryde, Isle of Wight) was a British artist commissioned to paint many naval and merchant ships. Mitchell's collected works were originally published in The Royal Navy in a series of illustratio ...

(1845–1914), British naval artist * William Mitchell (writer) (1811–1878), English maritime writer * William M. Mitchell (c. 1826 – c. 1879), American writer, minister and abolitionist *

W. O. Mitchell William Ormond Mitchell, (March 13, 1914 – February 25, 1998) was a Canadian writer and broadcaster. His "best-loved" novel is '' Who Has Seen the Wind'' (1947), which portrays life on the Canadian Prairies from the point of view of a smal ...

(1914–1998), Canadian writer * W. R. Mitchell (William Reginald Mitchell, 1928–2015), British writer * William Mitchell, former alias of actor

Peter Finch Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 191614 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor of theatre, film and radio. Born in London, he emigrated to Australia at the age of ten and was raised in Sydney, where he worked in vaudevi ...

* William Paul Mitchell, known as

Large Professor William Paul Mitchell (born March 21, 1972), better known by the stage name of Large Professor (also Extra P. and Large Pro), is an American rapper and music producer. Based in New York City, he is known as a founding member of the underground ...

(born 1973), American hip hop producer

Politics and the law

* William Mitchell (MP for City of London) (died 1426) * William Mitchell (1742–1823), Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle, 1796–1799 * William Mitchell (Australian politician) (1850–1923), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly * William Mitchell (barrister) (died 1937), Scottish Advocate and Liberal politician * William Mitchell (Burnley MP) (1838–1914), Conservative MP for Burnley, 1900–1905 * William Mitchell (Canadian politician) (1851–1926), Canadian senator * William Mitchell (congressman) (1807–1865), congressman from Indiana * William Mitchell (Huntingdonshire MP) (c. 1703–1745), Member of Parliament for

Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire (; abbreviated Hunts) is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England, which was historically a county in its own right. It borders Peterborough to the north, Fenland to the north-east, East Cambridgeshire to the e ...

, 1741–1745 * William Mitchell (North Dakota) (1830–1890), North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction * William B. Mitchell (1832–1900), Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court * William D. Mitchell (1874–1955), U.S. Attorney General * William F. Mitchell (Wisconsin politician) (1826–1899), Republican member of the

Wisconsin State Assembly The Wisconsin State Assembly is the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature. Together with the smaller Wisconsin Senate, the two constitute the legislative branch of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The Assembly is controlled by the Republican ...

* William Foot Mitchell (1859–1947), Conservative Party politician in England, MP 1910 and 1922–1929 * W. Franklin Mitchell, Republican politician from North Carolina, USA * William Henry Mitchell (1834–1919), Washington state politician and businessman *

William Henry Fancourt Mitchell Sir William Henry Fancourt Mitchell (November 1811 – 24 November 1884) was a British-born Australian police commissioner and politician, President of the Victorian Legislative Council for fourteen years. Life Mitchell was the son of the Re ...

(1811–1884), Australian politician * William O. Mitchell (1846–1930), American politician from Iowa * William W. Mitchell Sr. (1880–1969), American politician and businessman

Military

* William Mitchell (RAF officer) (1888–1944), senior Royal Air Force commander and Black Rod * William Mitchell (Royal Navy officer) (c. 1745–1816), Royal Navy admiral *

Billy Mitchell William Lendrum Mitchell (December 29, 1879 – February 19, 1936) was a United States Army officer who had a major role in the creation of the United States Air Force. Mitchell served in France during World War I and, by the conflict's end, ...

(William Lendrum Mitchell, 1879–1936), American general and airpower advocate

Science and engineering

* William Mitchell (mathematician), set theorist, see

Jónsson cardinal In set theory, a Jónsson cardinal (named after Bjarni Jónsson) is a certain kind of large cardinal number. An uncountable cardinal number κ is said to be ''Jónsson'' if for every function f : kappa \to \kappa there is a set H of order type \kap ...

William Mitchell (physicist) Sir Edgar William John Mitchell, (September 25, 1925 – October 30, 2002) was a British physicist, professor of physics at Reading and Oxford, and he helped pioneer the field of neutron scattering. Born in Kingsbridge, Devon, England, he studi ...

(1925–2002), Oxford physicist who helped pioneer neutron scattering * William A. Mitchell (1911–2004), corporate chemist responsible for Tang and Pop Rocks * Bill Mitchell (automobile designer) (William L. Mitchell, 1912–1988), American automobile designer * William McGregor Mitchell (1888–1970), Scottish veterinary surgeon

Sports

* William Mitchell (cricketer, born 1859) (1859–1929), English cricketer * William Grant Mitchell (1865–1905), English international rugby union player * John Mitchell (cricketer) (William John Mitchell, born 1947), Northern Districts cricketer

Other

Bill Mitchell (economist) William Francis Mitchell (born 7 March 1952) is a professor of economics at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and Docent Professor of Global Political Economy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is also a guest pr ...

(William Francis Mitchell, born 1952), Australian economist * William J. Mitchell (1944–2010), Australian-born American urban designer and architect *

W. J. T. Mitchell William John Thomas Mitchell (born March 24, 1942) is an American academic. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He was the editor of ''Critical Inquiry'' for 42 ...

(born 1942), American historian *

William Mitchell (philosopher) Sir William Mitchell (27 March 186124 June 1962) was an Australian philosopher and academic. He was Professor of English Language, Literature, Mental and Moral Philosophy at the University of Adelaide from 1894–1922, Vice-Chancellor 1916–1 ...

(1861–1962), University of Adelaide professor, vice chancellor and chancellor, 1942–1948 * William Mitchell (missionary) (1803–1870), Anglican priest who established religious services in the Swan River Colony * William Mitchell (Scottish entrepreneur) (1781–1854), co-founder of the Alloa Coal Company * William Mitchell, a Black man involved in the 1839 Marion riot

Characters

* President Bill Mitchell, fictional president of the United States in the film ''Dave'' * Will Mitchell, fictional character in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''

Institutions and companies

William Mitchell College of Law William Mitchell College of Law was a private law school from 1956 to 2015 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA), it offered full- and part-time legal education in pursuit of the Juris Doctor (J. ...

, law school named for William B. Mitchell