William Ellis


William Ellis may refer to:

Politicians

  • William Ellis, in 1388, Member of Parliament for Canterbury
  • William Ellis , English Jacobite, secretary of State to James II in exile
  • William Ellis , English lawyer and politician
  • William Craven-Ellis, Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom
  • William Cox Ellis, member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
  • William Henry Ellis , English-born political figure in Newfoundland
  • William R. Ellis, United States Congressman from Oregon from 1893–1899 and 1907–1911
  • William T. Ellis, U.S. Representative from Kentucky
  • William Ellis , building contractor and political figure in Newfoundland
  • William A. Ellis, member of the Wisconsin State Senate
  • William Ellis, mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey
  • William Ellis, representative to the Great and General Court

    Sportsmen

  • William Ellis , English cricketer for Derbyshire
  • William Ellis , Scottish cricketer
  • William Webb Ellis, Anglican clergyman, allegedly the inventor of rugby football
  • Billy Ellis, English footballer
  • Bill Ellis, English cricketer

    Religious figures

  • William Ellis , English missionary and author
  • William Ellis , Irish-born Methodist clergyman, missionary in Newfoundland
  • William Webb Ellis, Anglican clergyman, allegedly the inventor of rugby football

    Others

  • William Ellis , English astronomer and meteorologist
  • William Ellis , English engraver
  • William Ellis , English businessman, writer on economics, and educational thinker
  • William Ellis , American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
  • William Ellis , English writer on agriculture
  • Sir William Charles Ellis, English physician, pioneering superintendent of asylums and Methodist lay preacher
  • William Ellis, British actor, voice artist and podcaster
  • William Henry Ellis William Henry Ellis, was born into slavery and became a Mexican millionaire
  • William Henry Ellis , British civil engineer and steel maker
  • William Hodgson Ellis, British-Canadian chemist
  • William Otoo Ellis, Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
  • William Edward Ellis, U.S. Navy officer
  • W. H. Ellis, justice of the Florida Supreme Court
  • William Wade Ellis, naturalist and artist who accompanied Captain Cook