William Jackson


William Jackson may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • William Jackson , referred to as Jackson of Exeter, English organist and composer
  • William Jackson of Masham, English organist and composer
  • William Henry Jackson, early photographer of the American West
  • William Jackson , Scottish composer
  • William F. Jackson, American painter and art curator

    Business

  • William Jackson, British businessman and philanthropist, founder of Bridgepoint Group
  • William Jackson Food Group, food manufacturer in the United Kingdom

    Military

  • William Jackson , British pirate
  • William Lowther Jackson, American Confederate general
  • William Hicks Jackson, American Confederate general
  • William Payne Jackson, U.S. Army general
  • William Jackson , Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Sir William Jackson , British general, Governor of Gibraltar, military historian, and author
  • William Francis Jackson, British Army officer

    Politics and law

United Kingdom

  • William Jackson, MP for Guildford and Haslemere
  • Sir William Jackson, 1st Baronet, British MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme and Derbyshire North
  • William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton, English politician, Member of Parliament for Leeds
  • William Jackson, 1st Baron Jackson, Member of Parliament for Brecon and Radnorshire, 1939–1945

    United States

  • William Jackson , Secretary to the Philadelphia Convention and member of the U.S. Continental Army
  • William Jackson , US Congressman from Massachusetts
  • William Terry Jackson, U.S. Representative from New York
  • William Jackson, English-American pottery manufacturer and politician of the 1820s
  • William A. Jackson, Black dispatches spy during the American Civil War
  • William Humphreys Jackson, congressman from Maryland
  • William P. Jackson, member of the United States Senate from Maryland
  • William S. Jackson, New York State Attorney General, 1907–1908
  • William T. Jackson , mayor of Toledo, Ohio
  • William Harding Jackson, United States National Security Advisor
  • William H. Jackson , judge of the United States District Court for the Canal Zone
  • William M. Jackson , associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
  • William S. Jackson , associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court

    Other political figures

  • William Jackson , New Zealand politician
  • William Jackson , Canadian Member of Parliament
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    Religion

  • William Jackson , Irish preacher, journalist, playwright, radical, and spy
  • William Jackson , bishop of Oxford
  • William Jackson , priest and academic
  • William Jackson , Anglican priest in Ireland
  • William Walrond Jackson, Bishop of Antigua 1860–1879
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  • William Jackson , Rector of Exeter College, Oxford
  • Ernest Jackson , 20th century Canadian Anglican priest
  • William Henry Jackson , Anglican priest, missionary, and inventor of Burmese Braille

    Science and medicine

  • William Jackson , Boston, Massachusetts city engineer, 1885–1910
  • William Jackson , Scottish mechanical engineer
  • William Elvin Jackson, American aviation electronics engineer
  • William M. Jackson , American researcher

    Sports

  • William Jackson , Scottish winner of the first Olympic gold medal in curling, Chamonix, 1924
  • William Jackson , Newton Heath F.C., Burnley F.C. and Wales international footballer
  • Bill Jackson , American first baseman for the Chicago Whales
  • William Jackson , American pitcher and outfielder for early minor leagues and Negro leagues
  • William Jackson III, American football player

    Others

  • William Jackson , American Revolutionary era loyalist
  • William Jackson , American loan shark, enforcer and murder victim
  • William K. Jackson, American architect, co-founder of KBJ Architects
  • William Turrentine Jackson, American professor of history
  • William Perry Jackson, American serial killer