William Cox


William Cox, Will Cox, Bill Cox, or Billy Cox may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Bill Cox , American country and folk musician
  • Billy Cox, American bassist best known for playing with guitarist Jimi Hendrix
  • Will Cox, Australian actor associated with Independent Theatre, an Adelaide theatre company
  • William R. Cox, writer of short stories and Western and mystery novels
  • William Trevor, Irish novelist

    Military

  • William Cox , British general of the peninsular war, in Siege of Almeida
  • William Ruffin Cox, Confederate general in the United States Civil War, later Secretary of the United States
  • William Reginald Cox, British Army officer
  • William Sitgreaves Cox, court-martialled acting third lieutenant of the USS ''Chesapeake''

    Law

  • William Cox , past president of the Canadian Bar Association
  • William Harold Cox, U.S. federal judge
  • William John Cox, American public interest lawyer, prosecutor, author and political activist

    Politicians

  • William Cox , Member of Parliament for Finsbury 1857–1859, 1861–1865
  • William Cox , known as Bill Cox, Governor of the state of Tasmania, Australia
  • William E. Cox, U.S. Representative from Indiana
  • William H. Cox Jr., American politician from Maryland
  • William Hopkinson Cox, American politician; Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
  • William Thomas Cox, British politician
  • William Wesley Cox, presidential, vice presidential, and perennial U.S. Senate candidate of the Socialist Labor Party

    Sports

  • Bill Cox , former American football end
  • Bill Cox , American Major League Baseball pitcher and Illinois state legislator
  • Bill Cox , author and professional golfer at Fulwell Golf Club from 1946 to 1975
  • Bill Cox , English football centre forward
  • Bill Cox , United States Olympic medallist
  • Bill Cox , American Olympic speed skater
  • Billy Cox , American Major League Baseball middle infielder
  • William Cox, British Olympic wrestler
  • William D. Cox, American businessman and sports executive
  • William Samuel Cox, Australian racecourse owner, namesake of the Cox Plate

    Others

  • William Cox , constructor of the road across the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia
  • William Cox, engineer and inventor of the duplex slide rule.
  • William Denton Cox, heroic steward aboard RMS Titanic
  • William George Cox, Gold Commissioner for the Cariboo and Boundary Districts in the Colony of British Columbia, Canada
  • William M. Cox, American highways administrator
  • William Sands Cox, surgeon in Birmingham, England
  • William Cox , American Episcopalian bishop
  • William T. L. Cox, American social psychologist