William Ward
William Ward or Willie Ward or Will Ward may refer to:
Sports
- William Ward , American football coach at the University of Michigan in 1896
- William Ward , Australian cricketer
- William Ward , English cricketer, scorer of the first-ever double-century
- William Ward , English cricketer
- William Ward , New Zealand tennis player
- Willie Ward, American baseball player
- Billy Ward , rugby league footballer of the 1910s for Great Britain, England, and Leeds
- William Ward, American boxer who fought under the name Kid Norfolk
Military
- William Ward
- William Ward , American lieutenant-colonel during the Texas Revolution
- William E. Ward, American general officer of the United States Army; inaugural combatant commander of United States Africa Command
- William F. Ward Jr., United States Army general
- William H. Ward, American army officer and Medal of Honor recipient
- William Thomas Ward, American army general and congressman from Kentucky
Politics
- William Ward, Member of Parliament for Staffordshire, 1710–1713 and 1715–1720
- William Ward , English Mayor of Oxford
- William Ward , MP for Morpeth, and for Carlisle
- William Ward , American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
- William Ward , Pittsburgh Police Chief in 1986
- William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley, British politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Governor-General of Australia
- William Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley, British Conservative politician
- William Ward, 3rd Viscount Dudley and Ward, British peer and politician
- William Ward Jr., American politician from Pennsylvania
- William D. Ward, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives
- William Dudley Ward, British Liberal politician and Olympic sailor
- William F. Ward, American lawyer and politician
- William John Ward, Canadian farmer and politician in Manitoba
- William L. Ward, American politician, US Representative from New York
- William T. Ward, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for 1850
- William W. Ward, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Religion
- William Ward , Anglican clergyman and the Bishop of Sodor and Man
- William Ward , British pioneer, Baptist missionary
- William Ward , English Roman Catholic martyr
- William George Ward, English Roman Catholic theologian and mathematician
- William Hayes Ward, American clergyman, editor, and Orientalist
- William Humble Ward, 10th Baron Ward, clergyman
Other fields
- William Ward , American astronomer
- William Ward , English engraver
- William Ward , frontiersman, early settler of western Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio
- William Ward, English goldsmith and financier
- William Ward , English physician and translator
- William Ward , architect in Utah
- William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, British peer and benefactor
- William Ward, 4th Earl of Dudley, British peer
- William Ward, 10th Baron Dudley
- William Ward, 8th Viscount Bangor
- William Arthur Ward, American motivational writer
- William Ayres Ward, American Egyptologist
- William Erskine Ward, British Indian Civil Service officer
- William Henry Ward, American inventor
- W. R. Ward, English historian