William Wood

Banking

• William Wood , Scottish-American banker
• William Henry O'Malley Wood, Australian banker, public servant and surveyor

  Entertainment

• William B. Wood , American theatre manager and actor
• William Wood , American illusionist and ventriloquist
• Will Wood, American alternative singer-songwriter and lead singer of The Tapeworms
• Merlyn Wood, American vocalist for the band Brockhampton

  Government

Civil servants

• William P. Wood, first Director of the United States Secret Service
• W. A. R. Wood , British diplomat in Siam
• Sir William Alan Wood, British civil servant
• William McKenzie Wood, Canadian ambassador to Israel in 1965
• William Braucher Wood, American diplomat, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and Colombia

  Politicians

• William Wood, Member of Parliament for Berkshire, 1395
• William Wood, MP for Winchester, 1413–1416
• William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley, British statesman and Lord Chancellor
• William Wood , British MP for Pontefract
• William Wood , New Zealand politician, MP for Invercargill and Mataura
• William Wood, member of the Twentieth Texas Legislature
• William Thomas Wood, New Zealand politician
• W. D. Wood, mayor of Seattle
• William R. Wood , U.S. Representative from Indiana
• William Wood , member of the New South Wales Parliament
• William Robertson Wood, Canadian Presbyterian minister and member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

  Industry

• William Wood , British ironmaster and mint master
• William Willis Wood , English mill owner, Wesleyan Methodist preacher and mayor of Bradford
• William Bruce Wood, Canadian mill owner and political figure in Ontario
• William Madison Wood, American textile mill owner in Massachusetts
• William B. Wood , American building contractor in Kentucky
• Sir William Valentine Wood, Irish-born president of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 1941–1947

  Military

• William Maxwell Wood, United States Navy officer and surgeon, first Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy
• * USS William M. Wood, the name of three ships of the U.S. Navy
• William W. Wood, U.S. Navy engineer and head of the Bureau of Steam Engineering
• William D. Wood, American Union brevet brigadier general

  Science and medicine

• William Wood , English botanist and Unitarian minister
• William Wood , English entomologist
• William Wood , Scottish surgeon
• William Wood , American physician and naturalist

  Sports

Football (soccer)

• William Wood , English football player for Aberdare Athletic and Stoke
• William Wood , English footballer, goalkeeper for Rochdale
• William Wood , English football defender for Burnley and Yeovil Town
• William Wood , English footballer for several teams including Blackburn Rovers and Burnley
• Will Wood , English football defender for several teams including Ebbsfleet United

  Other sports

• William Wood , English archer
• William Wood , Australian cricketer
• William Wood , English-born Canadian marathon runner
• William Wood , British wrestler
• William Wood , Canadian rower and Olympic silver medalist
• William H. Wood , American gridiron football coach and United States Army officer
• William Wood , English competition diver

  Trade unions

• William Henry Wood, British trade union leader
• William H. Wood, American labor union leader, first president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, 1889–1890
• William Wood , British trade union leader

  Others

• William Wightman Wood, American journalist, businessman and poet
• William Halsey Wood, American architect
• William Charles Henry Wood, Canadian historian
• William J. Wood, Canadian painter and etcher
• William Ransom Wood, president of the University of Alaska, 1960–1973
• William Wood, American screenwriter