William Harris

Politicians and political activists

• William Harris , MP for Newport, Cornwall
• William Harris, MP for Maldon
• William Harris , English landowner and member of parliament for St Ives, and for Okehampton
• William Harris , Liberal Party politician and strategist, architect, and writer, in Birmingham, England
• William Harris , Australian advocate for Aboriginal rights
• William Harris, 20th century American militant
• William Alexander Harris , U.S. Representative from Kansas
• William Alexander Harris , U.S. Representative from Virginia
• William C. Harris , American politician
• William J. Harris, U.S. Senator from Georgia
• William Littleton Harris, Justice of the Mississippi Court of Errors and Appeals
• William L. Harris, American politician
• William James Harris, Conservative Party politician
• William R. Harris, justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court
• William Harris, American businessman and politician from New York

  Sportsmen

• William Harris , American football tight end
• Will Harris, American football cornerback
• Bill Harris , American swimmer and Olympic bronze medallist
• William Harris , American tennis player
• William Harris , English cricketer
• William Harris , English cricketer
• William Harris , English cricketer
• William Harris , Scottish footballer
• William Harris , New Zealand rugby union player
• Will Harris , baseball player
• Willie Harris, baseball player
• Will Harris , Australian rugby union player
• Will Harris , English footballer

  Academics and religious figures

• William Harris , English divine
• William Harris , English dissenting minister and historian
• William Harris , president of Columbia University
• William C. Harris, professor of history at North Carolina State University
• William Logan Harris, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
• William H. Harris , Irish botanist
• William Henry Harris , Welsh divine, canon and treasurer of St David's Cathedral, and professor of Welsh at St David's College, Lampeter
• William Stewart Harris, English-born Australian anthropologist, journalist and Aboriginal rights advocate
• William V. Harris, professor of history
• William Wadé Harris, African evangelist
• William S. Harris, American professor and researcher on human nutrition

  Soldiers

• William Harris , figure in the American Revolution
• William Harris, 2nd Baron Harris, British soldier and peer
• William Harris, American Civil War colonel, son of Ira Harris
• William W. Harris , Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Indian Wars
• William Frederick Harris, United States Marine Corps officer

  Engineers, inventors and scientists

• William Cornwallis Harris, English military engineer, artist and hunter
• Sir William Gordon Harris, British civil engineer
• William Snow Harris, invented a ship-borne lightning rod
• William Harris, former director general of Science Foundation Ireland

  Others

• Will Harris , British poet
• William Harris , British escaped convict and settler in pre-colonial Nauru
• William Harris , American country blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter
• William Harris , American theatre producer and vaudevillian performer
• William Harris , English knight, landowner and incorporator in the third Virginia Company of London
• William Harris , founding settler of Providence, Rhode Island
• William Harris, 6th Earl of Malmesbury, British peer
• Bill Harris , Canadian-born neuroscientist
• William Critchlow Harris, Canadian architect
• William C. Harris, Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 1856–1881
• Sir William Henry Harris, English organist and composer
• William H. Harris , American orthopaedic surgeon
• William Laurel Harris, American muralist and editor
• William Lewarne Harris, English composer
• William Torrey Harris, United States Commissioner of Education, American educator, philosopher, lexicographer
• William Harris Jr., Broadway theatrical producer
• William Harris, founder of the Ottawa Citizen newspaper
• William Bevan Harris, British-American comic actor, better known as Billy Bevan