William Taylor


William Taylor may refer to:

Military

  • William Taylor , British naval officer
  • William P. Taylor , American lawyer and militia Brigadier General
  • William Rogers Taylor, U.S. Rear Admiral
  • William G. Taylor, American sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
  • William Taylor , fatality at the Battle of the Alamo
  • William Taylor , Union Army soldier and officer during the American Civil War
  • William Taylor , British recipient of the George Cross
  • William D. Taylor, United States Army general

    Political figures

Australia

  • William Taylor , member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
  • William Taylor , member of the Tasmanian Parliament
  • William Taylor , pastoralist and member of the Victorian Legislative Council
  • William Frederick Taylor, medical doctor and member of the Queensland Legislative Council
  • William Tydd Taylor, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

    Canada

  • William Benajah Taylor, Canadian merchant and politician in Nova Scotia
  • William Henry Taylor , Canadian politician in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
  • William Horace Taylor, Canadian politician
  • William Taylor , Canadian businessman and political figure in New Brunswick

    New Zealand

  • William Waring Taylor, New Zealand politician

    United Kingdom

  • William Thomas Taylor, British colonial administrator
  • W. B. Taylor, British Member of Parliament
  • Sir William Taylor, 1st Baronet, British Conservative Member of Parliament
  • William Taylor , Anglican minister elected to the Common Council of the City of London Corporation
  • Sir William Taylor , British civil servant and forester

    United States

  • William Taylor , U.S. Congressman from New York
  • William L. Taylor, attorney and civil rights activist who served on the United States Commission on Civil Rights
  • William P. Taylor, U.S. Congressman from Virginia
  • William Robert Taylor, governor of Wisconsin
  • William S. Taylor , member of the Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas state legislatures, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives
  • William S. Taylor , Kentucky attorney general and governor; indicted for conspiracy to assassinate the succeeding governor
  • William Taylor , congressman and lawyer from Virginia
  • William J. Taylor, politician in the state of Florida
  • William B. Taylor Jr., ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009, and chargé d’affaires 2019-2020

    Religious figures

  • William Taylor , English priest and theologian, burnt as a Lollard
  • William Taylor , Scottish minister, moderator and principal
  • William Taylor , minister of the Church of Scotland
  • William Taylor , U.S. missionary and bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
  • William Mackergo Taylor, U.S. Congregational minister
  • William W. Taylor, American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • William Taylor , archdeacon in the Diocese of Liverpool
  • William Taylor , Anglican priest
  • William Carey Taylor, English Baptist minister and missionary

    Scientists and engineers

  • William B. Taylor , American civil engineer and surveyor in New York
  • William Taylor , British inventor
  • William C. Taylor, of Howard N. Potts Medal
  • William Taylor , British ophthalmologist and expert on albinism
  • William Randolph Taylor, American botanist
  • William R. Taylor, psychiatrist, see Fuzzy cognitive map

    Sports people

American football

  • William S. Taylor , head football coach at University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff 1937–1940
  • Willie Taylor , American player of Canadian football
  • Willie Taylor , American NFL football wide receiver

    Cricket

  • William Taylor , English cricketer
  • William Taylor , English cricketer
  • William Taylor , English cricketer

    Other sports

  • William Taylor, rode in 1846 Grand National
  • William Taylor, rode in 1898 Grand National
  • W. F. Taylor, Canadian ice hockey administrator, founding president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association
  • William "Lady" Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player
  • William Taylor , English footballer
  • William Taylor , Canadian Olympic cyclist
  • Willie Taylor , Scottish footballer
  • Willie Taylor , American basketball player
  • William Taylor , English tennis player, two time Wimbledon semifinalist
  • William Taylor, winner of the standing long jump and standing high jump at the 1919 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships
  • William Taylor, (1869-1920, American tennis player, five time winner of Pacific Coast Championships

    Writers, publishers, illustrators

  • William Taylor , bookseller trading at St. Paul's Churchyard, London, and publisher of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe in 1719
  • William Taylor , U.S. historian, professor, and author
  • William Taylor , English scholar and linguist
  • William Taylor , New Zealand children's writer
  • William B. Taylor , American historian
  • William Cooke Taylor, Irish writer
  • William Davis Taylor, American newspaper publisher, The Boston Globe
  • William Ladd Taylor, American illustrator
  • William O. Taylor, American newspaper publisher, The Boston Globe
  • William O. Taylor II, American newspaper publisher, The Boston Globe
  • William Benjamin Sarsfield Taylor, Irish artist and writer

    Legal professionals

  • William Taylor , British lawyer who was lead counsel for Abdelbaset al-Megrahi at the Lockerbie trial
  • William Taylor , British police officer
  • William A. Taylor, Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court
  • William H. Taylor , Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
  • William M. Taylor, Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
  • William McLaughlin Taylor Jr., U.S. federal judge
  • William Taylor , English senior Circuit Judge

    Others

  • William Taylor , British teacher, headmaster of Sir Walter St John's Grammar School For Boys
  • William Desmond Taylor, U.S. film director
  • William Henry Taylor, alleged Soviet agent
  • William Taylor, video game designer, see Blazing Angels 2
  • William Taylor, a British folk song
  • William Taylor , cotton manufacturer in Lancashire, England
  • William Taylor , English educationalist, vice-chancellor of the University of Hull
  • William Taylor , academic
  • William Joseph Taylor, British medallist and engraver
  • Willie Taylor, American singer and songwriter
  • William Taylor, video game character
  • William Taylor & Son, an apartment building in Cleveland, United States