William Wilson

Politicians

American

• Bill Wilson , small government activist
• Bill Wilson , Montana state representative
• W. Eugene Wilson, member of the North Carolina General Assembly
• Will Wilson , American politician, attorney, and judge in Texas
• William A. Wilson , first U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See
• William B. Wilson, U.S. labor leader and political figure
• * SS William B. Wilson, a Liberty ship
• William C. Wilson , New York comptroller in 1906
• William E. Wilson , U.S. Representative from Indiana
• William H. Wilson , New York assemblyman
• William H. Wilson, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1935–1937
• William K. Wilson, Wisconsin state senator
• William Lyne Wilson, United States Postmaster General
• William Sydney Wilson, Confederate politician
• William T. Wilson, member of the Virginia House of Delegates
• William Warfield Wilson, U.S. Representative from Illinois
• William Wilson , Iowa state senator
• William M. Wilson , Iowa state senator
• William Wilson , U.S. Representative from Ohio
• William Wilson, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1815–1819
• William Wilson , Wisconsin state senator
• Bill Wilson, mayor of Santa Clara, California, founder of the Bill Wilson Center for homeless youth

  British

• William Wilson, MP for Southwark
• William Wilson, British Member of Parliament for Ilchester, 1761–1768
• William Wilson , MP for Donegal 1876–1879
• William Wilson , British trade unionist and Member of Parliament for Westhoughton
• William Wilson , British Labour Member of Parliament, 1964–1983
• Bill Wilson , Scottish nationalist
• William Wilson, prime minister of the micronation Austenasia

  Canadian

• Bill Wilson , hereditary chief and politician in British Columbia
• William Wilson , merchant and politician in British Columbia
• William Wilson , Canadian politician in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
• William Wilson , politician in Upper Canada
• William Wallace Wilson, Alberta politician
• William Wilber Wilfred Wilson, Canadian politician

  Australian

• William Wilson , member of the Queensland Legislative Council
• William Wilson , member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council

  New Zealand

• William Wilson , first mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand, 1868

  Sports

Association football

• William Wilson, English footballer for Newcastle United and Bradford City
• William Wilson , English footballer
• William Wilson , English footballer
• William Wilson , English footballer
• William Wilson, Scottish football goalkeeper for Queen of the South and Third Lanark
• William Wilson, Kenyan footballer
• Billy Wilson , English footballer
• Billy Wilson , Northern Irish football player for Burnley
• Billy Wilson , English footballer
• Billy Wilson , American soccer player
• Billy Wilson, played for Airdrieonians FC and managed Albion Rovers F.C.
• Willie Wilson , Scottish footballer, played for Hearts and Cowdenbeath
• Willie Wilson , Scottish footballer
• Willie Wilson, Scottish footballer

  Baseball

• William Wilson, American baseball player
• Will Wilson , American baseball player
• Willie Wilson , American baseball outfielder
• Willy Wilson , baseball player
• Bill Wilson , MLB catcher
• Bill Wilson , MLB outfielder
• Bill Wilson , Major League Baseball pitcher
• Mookie Wilson, MLB outfielder
• Mutt Wilson, MLB pitcher

  Australian rules football

• William Wilson , Australian rules footballer for Essendon and cricketer for Victoria
• Bill Wilson , Australian rules footballer for Richmond and Glenelg
• Billy Wilson , Australian rules footballer for Fitzroy
• Billy Wilson, Australian rules footballer for Carlton

  Cricket

• William Wilson , Australian cricketer
• William Wilson , South African cricketer
• Billy Wilson , Australian cricketer

  Rugby

• Billy Wilson , Australian rugby league footballer
• Billy Wilson , rugby league footballer of the 1910s, and 1920s for New Zealand, Wellington and Athletic
• Will Wilson , English rugby union and rugby sevens player

  Other sports

• William Wilson , Scottish writer on swimming, and the inventor of water polo
• Billy Wilson, college football player
• William Wilson , American Olympic hockey player
• William George Wilson, sports cinematographer
• Willie Wilson , Scottish speedway rider
• Billy Wilson , NFL wide receiver
• William Wilson , Filipino swimmer
• Willy Wilson, Filipino basketball player
• William Wilson,, British Olympic wrestler

  Arts and entertainment

• William Wilson , English architect, builder and sculptor
• William Wilson , Scottish-American poet, bookseller and publisher
• W. J. Wilson , actor, scene painter and stage manager
• William Hardy Wilson, Australian architect, artist and author
• William Wilson , Scottish stained glass artist, printmaker and watercolours
• William E. Wilson , English portrait photographer
• William E. Wilson , American author and professor, son of the Indiana politician
• William Scott Wilson, author and translator of samurai literature
• Will Wilson , American painter of portraits, illustrations and trompe-l'œil works
• Will Wilson , Native American photographer
• William Wilson, lead singer of Legion Within
• William Llewellyn Wilson, conductor, musician, teacher and music educator from Baltimore
• Willie Wilson , member of Quiver; worked with Pink Floyd, Al Stewart

  Business

• William Proctor Wilson, president of Buttrick Publishing Company
• Willie Wilson , Chicago businessman, musician, philanthropist, and political candidate
• William Willson , chairman of Aston Martin, 1972–1975
• W. R. Wilson, an Australian businessman with extensive interests in mining and a racehorse owner and breeder
• William Wilson, businessman, founder of Price's Candles
• Bill Wilson, founder of US firearms manufacturer Wilson Combat

  Law and crime

• Billy Wilson , American outlaw who rode with Billy the Kid
• Bill Wilson , convicted of murdering two individuals who were later found alive
• Billy Roy Wilson, United States federal judge
• William Wilson , Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court
• Bill Wilson, New Zealand judge of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal
• William C. Wilson , Vermont lawyer and judge
• William Adam Wilson, professor of Scots Law at Edinburgh University
• William Rae Wilson, Scottish lawyer and travel writer
• William Robert Wilson, Australian murderer involved in the 1976 Spring Hill shooting

  Military

• Sir William Deane Wilson, British army surgeon-general
• William Wilson , one of nineteen people to receive the Medal of Honor twice
• William Othello Wilson, member of the US Army's 9th Cavalry, and recipient of the Medal of Honor
• William Tecumseh Wilson, American Union brevet brigadier general from Ohio
• William Wilson , American Union brevet brigadier general from New York
• William Wilson , Commodore of the East India Company

  Religion

• William Wilson , Canon of Windsor
• William Wilson , co-founder of the Secession Church
• William Carus Wilson, English churchman and founder and editor of The Children's Friend
• William Wilson , Anglican bishop in Scotland
• William Wilson Presbyterian minister, moderator of the Free Church
• William Hay Wilson, Anglican priest
• William C. Wilson , General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene
• William Lyall Wilson, minister of the Church of Scotland
• Bill Wilson , president and founder of Metro Ministries International
• William Wilson , theologian affiliated with Oral Roberts University
• William Wilson, Dean of Cloyne, 1908–1934
• William Croft Wilson, American Congregational minister

  Science

• William Wilson , English botanist
• William James Erasmus Wilson, physician and surgeon
• William Edward Wilson , Irish astronomer
• William Parkinson Wilson, English astronomer and professor of mathematics
• William Wilson , English physicist
• William Wilson , English-born physicist
• William Hawkins Wilson, British physiologist
• William L. Wilson, American scientist

  Others

• William "Amos" Wilson, folklore figure of southern Pennsylvania, referred to as "The Pennsylvania Hermit"
• William A. Wilson , studied and taught Mormon folklore
• Bill W., co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
• Edward Wilson , known as Uncle Bill, Antarctic explorer
• William Wilson , English railway pioneer in Germany
• William E. Wilson, British railway civil engineer, first employer of John Harry Grainger
• William Julius Wilson, sociologist
• William L. Wilson, professor of electrical engineering

  In fiction

• "William Wilson", an 1839 short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• "William Wilson", a song from The Smithereens' 1989 album 11
• Wilson the Wonder Athlete, a character in British story and comic papers published by D.C. Thomson
• Billy Wilson, a character in Angels with Broken Wings
• Agent Bill Wilson, also known as CIA, a character in ''The Dark Knight Rises''