William Wood
William Wood may refer to:
Banking
- William Wood (banker, born 1808), Scottish-American banker
- William Henry O'Malley Wood, Australian banker, public servant and surveyor
Entertainment
- William B. Wood (actor), American theatre manager and actor
- William Wood (ventriloquist), 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 (Berkshire MP), Member of Parliament for Berkshire, 1395
- William Wood (Winchester MP), MP for Winchester, 1413–1416
- William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley, British statesman and Lord Chancellor
- William Wood (Pontefract MP), British MP for Pontefract
- William Wood (politician, born 1827), New Zealand politician, MP for Invercargill and Mataura
- William Wood (Texas politician), member of the Twentieth Texas Legislature
- William Thomas Wood, New Zealand politician
- W. D. Wood, mayor of Seattle
- William R. Wood (Indiana politician), U.S. Representative from Indiana
- William Wood (Australian politician), member of the New South Wales Parliament
- William Robertson Wood, Canadian Presbyterian minister and member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
Industry
- William Wood (ironmaster), British ironmaster and mint master
- William Willis Wood (mayor), 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 (builder), 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 (botanist), English botanist and Unitarian minister
- William Wood (zoologist), English entomologist
- William Wood (Scottish surgeon), Scottish surgeon
- William Wood (naturalist), American physician and naturalist
Sports
Football (soccer)
- William Wood (footballer, born 1900), English football player for Aberdare Athletic and Stoke
- William Wood (footballer, born 1904), English footballer, goalkeeper for Rochdale
- William Wood (footballer, born April 1910), English football defender for Burnley and Yeovil Town
- William Wood (footballer, born June 1910), English footballer for several teams including Blackburn Rovers and Burnley
- Will Wood (footballer), English football defender for several teams including Ebbsfleet United
Other sports
- William Wood (toxophilite), English archer
- William Wood (cricketer), Australian cricketer
- William Wood (runner), English-born Canadian marathon runner
- William Wood (wrestler), British wrestler
- William Wood (rower), Canadian rower and Olympic silver medalist
- William H. Wood (American football), American gridiron football coach and United States Army officer
- William Wood (diver), 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 (trade unionist, born 1873), 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 (screenwriter), American screenwriter