William Cooper
William Cooper may refer to:
Business
- William Cooper (businessman), Canadian businessman
- William Cooper (co-operator), English co-operator
- William Cooper (accountant), founder of Cooper Brothers
- William W. Cooper, management scientist
- William E. Cooper (civic leader), businessman in Dallas, Texas
Government
- William B. Cooper (Delaware politician), American farmer and politician
- William B. Cooper (North Carolina politician), lieutenant governor of North Carolina
- William C. Cooper (politician), US congressman from Ohio
- William Cooper (judge), father of James Fenimore Cooper and founder of Cooperstown, New York
- William Cooper (Prince Edward Island politician), Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island
- Prentice Cooper, Tennessee governor
- William Raworth Cooper, US congressman from New Jersey
- William Frierson Cooper, lawyer, politician and judge of the Tennessee Supreme Court
- Bill Cooper (Georgia politician), American former politician and judge
- William Cooper (Australian politician), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
- William Prentice Cooper, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives
Literature and arts
- William Brown Cooper, American painter
- William Cooper Nell, African-American abolitionist
- Revd William Cooper, pseudonym of James Bertram, a Scottish pornography producer
- William C. Cooper (actor), stage and film actor
- William Sidney Cooper, English landscape artist
- William Heaton Cooper, British landscape artist
- William Cooper (novelist), British novelist
- William T. Cooper, Australian natural history illustrator
- William Y. Cooper, African-American painter, writer and illustrator
- William J. Cooper Jr., American historian
- Milton William Cooper, American conspiracy theorist and author
Characters
- William Cooper, a CIA agent in the 2010 film Red
Science
- William Cooper (conchologist), American conchologist
- William Cooper (chemical manufacturer), British sheep dip manufacturer
- William White Cooper, English surgeon-oculist
- William Skinner Cooper, American ecologist
Sports
- William Cooper (cricketer), Australian cricketer
- Willie Cooper (footballer, born 1886), English footballer for Barnsley and Rochdale
- William Osborne Cooper, Australian cricketer
- Willie Cooper, Scottish footballer
- William Cooper (sailor), Olympic gold medalist of 1932
- Bill Cooper (baseball), American Negro leagues baseball player
- Billy Cooper (footballer), English footballer
- Bill Cooper (sailor), Royal Navy officer, sailor and author
- Bill Cooper (American football), professional football player for the San Francisco 49ers
- Billy Cooper (Canadian football), Canadian football player
- Bill Cooper (hurler), Irish hurler
- Billy Cooper (trumpeter), cricket supporter and trumpet player for the Barmy Army
Other fields
- William Cooper (Puritan), chaplain to Elizabeth of Bohemia and ejected minister
- William Cooper (banker), Governor of the Bank of England from 1769 to 1771
- William Durrant Cooper, English lawyer and antiquary
- William Cooper (priest), Church of England priest
- William Cooper (Quaker), director of Cadbury Ltd in Australia
- William Cooper (Aboriginal Australian), Aboriginal rights leader
- William John Cooper, American educator
- William Turakiuta Cooper, New Zealand interpreter and land officer
- William Cooper (police officer), One of 4 New Zealand police officers shot in the 1941 Kowhitirangi shootings.
- William E. Cooper (general), United States Army general
- Milton William Cooper, American writer, radio host, and political activist
- William E. Cooper (university president), president of the University of Richmond