William Adams

Military

• William Adams, British naval officer
• William Adams , British naval officer
• William E. Adams, US Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient
• William Wirt Adams, Confederate States of America army general

  Musicians

• Billy Adams, banjo player, a former member of Dexys Midnight Runners
• will.i.am, musician, producer; member of The Black Eyed Peas
• Willy Northpole, rapper signed to Ludacris' DTP Records
• Billy Adams , American rockabilly musician

  Politicians

• Acton Adams, New Zealand politician
• Billy Adams , Governor of Colorado
• William Adams , rancher and politician in British Columbia, Canada
• William Adams, MP for Totnes
• William Adams , New Zealand politician
• William E. Adams , New York politician
• William G. Adams, Canadian politician
• William Henry Adams, British Conservative MP for Boston and Chief Justice of Hong Kong
• William Taylor Adams, author & politician
• William Thomas Adams, British Member of Parliament for Hammersmith South, 1945–1949
• Willie Adams , Canadian politician
• William Weston Adams, American politician, planter and medical doctor
• William H. Adams , American politician in the Virginia House of Delegates
• William Y. Adams, archaeologist

  Science, technology and philosophy

• William Adams , British locomotive engineer
• William Adams , English scholar
• William Adams , English ophthalmic surgeon
• William Bridges Adams, British inventor, author & locomotive engineer
• William Grylls Adams, professor of natural philosophy

  Sportspeople

American football

• Bill Adams , American football player
• Bill Adams, American college football coach
• Billy Ray Adams, American football player
• Willie Adams , American football player

  Association football (soccer)

• Bill Adams , Southampton FC right half back
• Bill Adams , English footballer
• Billy Adams , footballer for Barrow and West Bromwich Albion
• Billy Adams , English footballer
• William Adams, footballer who played for Walsall and West Bromwich Albion

  Other sports

• Bill Adams , Canadian ice hockey player
• Bill Adams , VFL player and coach
• William Adams , English cricketer
• William Adams , English cricketer
• Willie Adams , American baseball player
• Willie Adams , American baseball player
• Willie Adams , American basketball player
• Smiley Adams, racehorse trainer

  Writers

• William Adams , English religious writer
• William Davenport Adams, English writer and journalist, son of W. H. D. Adams
• William Henry Davenport Adams, English writer and journalist
• William Y. Adams, American author of Nubia: Corridor to Africa
• W. E. Adams, English radical and journalist
• William Lee Adams, journalist and founder of Wiwibloggs

  Clergy

• William Adams , minister of the First Church and Parish in Dedham
• William Adams , co-founder of Nashotah House
• William Adams , American religious leader and college president
• William Forbes Adams, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Easton

  Other uses

• William Adams , English maritime navigator, shipbuilder and advisor to the Japanese government
• William Adams , London haberdasher and founder of Adams' Grammar School
• William Adams , English lawyer, helped negotiate settlements with the US c.1814/1815
• William Adams , North Staffordshire potter, founded the Greengates Pottery
• William Bridges-Adams, British stage director
• William Drea Adams, president of Bucknell University, 1995–2000; president of Colby College, 2000–2014
• William Adams
• William Jackson Adams, justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
• William L. Adams , American writer, newspaper editor and doctor from Oregon
• William L. Adams , Baltimore businessman and venture capitalist
• William S. Adams, American cinematographer
• William Adams , English lifesaver from Gorleston
• William George Stewart Adams, British political scientist and public servant
• William M. Adams, British geographer