William Hughes
William, Will or Bill Hughes may refer to:
Politics
- Billy Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia during WWI
- William Hughes, 1st Baron Dinorben, British industrialist, politician and benefactor
- William Hughes, Baron Hughes, Scottish Labour Party politician
- William Hughes (Brooklyn), Assemblyman in the 117th [New York State Legislature]
- William Hughes (U.S. senator), U.S. Representative and Senator from New Jersey
- William Hughes (Wisconsin politician), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
- William Bulkeley Hughes, Welsh politician
- William Clark Hughes, Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives
- William Edgar Hughes, member of the Texas House of Representatives
- William H. Hughes, American businessman and politician from New York
- William J. Hughes, U.S. Representative from New Jersey and ambassador
- William M. Hughes, member of the Los Angeles City Council, California
Religion
- William Hughes (bishop of St Asaph), Welsh Anglican bishop
- William Hughes (bishop of Covington), American Roman Catholic bishop
- William Hughes (Methodist bishop), American bishop of the Central jurisdiction
Sports
- Bill Hughes (American football), American football player
- Bill Hughes (cricketer), New Zealand cricketer
- Bill Hughes (first baseman), baseball player
- Bill Hughes (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- Bill Hughes (pitcher), American baseball player in 1921
- Will Hughes, English footballer for Derby County, Watford and Crystal Palace
- William Hughes (born 1998), Welsh boxer and child actor
- William Hughes (1910s footballer), English footballer for Halifax Town and Bradford City
- William Hughes (footballer, born 1865), English footballer for Liverpool
- William L. Hughes, American college football player and coach
- Willie Hughes (footballer), Scottish footballer for Celtic and Clyde
Other
- Bill Hughes (musician), American jazz musician
- Bill Hughes (police officer), Director General of Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency
- William Hughes (As the World Turns), a fictional character on the American soap opera As the World Turns
- William Hughes (geographer), British mapmaker, professor of geography and author
- William Hughes (professor), British professor of Gothic studies, and author/editor of several books on Bram Stoker and the Gothic
- William Hughes (writer), British writer on law and angling
- W. A. Hughes, town clerk of Adelaide, South Australia
- William C. Hughes, lawyer in Oklahoma
- Willie Hughes, possible dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets