William Wright


William, Will, or Bill Wright may refer to:

William

Arts and entertainment

  • William Aldis Wright, English editor, literary executor of Edward FitzGerald
  • William Garrett Wright, American poet and editor
  • William Wright , Scottish poet
  • William Lord Wright, American screenwriter and film producer
  • William Wright , American film actor in the 1940s
  • William Wright , American non-fiction writer

    Military

  • William Wierman Wright, American civil engineer and Civil War officer for U.S. Military Railroads
  • William P. Wright, American Civil War officer
  • Sir William Purvis Wright, Royal Marines officer
  • William M. Wright, lieutenant general in the United States Army
  • William Wright , British World War I flying ace
  • William Wright , Medal of Honor recipient

    Politics

U.S. politics

  • William Wright , mayor of Newark, New Jersey and U.S. Senator
  • William W. Wright, New York politician and Erie Canal Commissioner
  • William Bacon Wright, Confederate politician
  • William Ambrose Wright, Georgia state comptroller
  • William C. Wright, U.S. Representative from Georgia

    Other politics

  • William Wright, MP for the City of York and lord mayor of York
  • William Wright , British Army officer and politician in colonial Victoria
  • William McKay Wright, Canadian Member of Parliament, Pontiac
  • William Wright , Canadian Member of Parliament, Muskoka
  • William Wright , Member of Parliament for Rutherglen, 1922–1931
  • Sir William Wright , Northern Irish business owner and Unionist politician

    Religion

  • William Wright , English Catholic missionary priest
  • William Burnet Wright, Congregational clergyman from Ohio
  • William Wright , Irish missionary in Damascus
  • William Wright , Canadian Anglican bishop
  • William Godsell Wright, Episcopal prelate who served as Bishop of Nevada
  • William Wright , bishop of Maitland-Newcastle

    Science

  • William Wright , Scottish physician and botanist
  • William Wright , Canadian physician and curate
  • William Wright , English aural surgeon
  • William Barton Wright, British railway engineer
  • William Hammond Wright, American astronomer
  • William Wright , American railway engineer

    Sports

  • William Wright , English cricketer
  • William Wright , English cricketer
  • William Wright , English footballer for Exeter City and Huddersfield Town
  • Will Wright, English football defender
  • Will Wright, English football attacker

    Other

  • William Wright, founder of the London-based think tank New Financial
  • William Wright, English academic
  • William Wright , professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge
  • William Wright , English privateer and buccaneer
  • William B. Wright, justice of the New York Supreme Court
  • William Henry Wright, Canadian prospector, founder of The Globe and Mail
  • William James Wright, Scottish farmer and agriculturalist
  • William Robert Wright, or Bob Wright, American co-author of a biography of Mormon leader David O. McKay

    Will

  • Will Wright , American character actor in film and TV
  • Will Wright , co-founder of Maxis, designer of SimCity
  • Will Wright , Welsh cyclist

    Bill

  • Bill Wright , American professional baseball catcher
  • Bill Wright , English footballer
  • Bill Wright , American baseball outfielder in the Negro leagues
  • Bill Wright , New Zealand rugby player
  • Bill Wright , American golfer