William Howard
Bill, Billy, Will, Willie or William Howard may refer to:
Noblemen and politicians
American
- William J. Howard, Pittsburgh mayor in 1845
- William Alanson Howard, U.S. Representative from Michigan and Governor of Dakota Territory 1878–1880
- William Howard (congressman), U.S. Representative from Ohio
- William M. Howard, U.S. Representative from Georgia
- William O. Howard, American politician from Missouri
- William S. Howard, U.S. Representative from Georgia
- William Lorenzo Howard, mayor of Monroe, Louisiana
British
- William Howard (judge), English nobleman and ancestor of aristocratic Howard family, Judge Advocate of Fleet
- William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, English nobleman
- William Howard (died 1600), English member of parliament
- Lord William Howard, nicknamed "Belted Will" or "Bauld Willie", third son of 4th Duke of Norfolk
- William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Effingham, his grandson, heir to 1st Earl of Nottingham
- William Howard (died 1672), English gentleman and member of parliament
- William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford
- William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Escrick, conspirator in Rye House Plot
- William Howard (died 1701), English Member of Parliament for Carlisle 1695–1701 and Northumberland 1701
- William Howard (Irish politician), Member of Parliament for Dublin City 1727–28
- William Howard, Viscount Andover, British Member of Parliament and heir to Earl of Berkshire
- William Howard, 3rd Earl of Wicklow, British nobleman, Earl of Wicklow
- William Howard (1781–1843), British Member of Parliament for Morpeth 1806–1826 and 1830–1832, Sutherland 1837–1840
- William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow, British nobleman
- William Howard, 8th Earl of Wicklow, British nobleman
- William George Howard, 8th Earl of Carlisle, English clergyman and peer
Performers
- Willie Howard, American comedian with his brother Eugene as Howard Brothers
- Billy Howard (comedian), English comedian and impressionist active since 1960s
Sportsmen
- Billy Howard (gridiron football), American defensive lineman with the Detroit Lions
- William Howard (American football), American running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Willie Howard, American football defensive end and coach
- Will Howard (cricketer), English first-class cricketer
- William Howard (basketball), French power forward
- Will Howard (American football), American quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers
- Bill Howard (rugby union)
Writers
- William Howard (engineer), American railroad topographer and memoirist
- William Lee Howard, American physician and writer
- William K. Howard, American film director, writer and producer
- William Alvin Howard, American proof theorist
- M. William Howard Jr., American academic and Reformed Church historian
- Bill Howard (journalist), American Catholic journalist and editor
Others
- William Howard (typefounder), 19th-century English designer at Chiswick Press in Great Queen Street
- William Howard (artist), African American woodworker and craftsman
- William R. Howard, American businessman and Piedmont Airlines executive