William Wilson
William Wilson, or variants, may refer to:
Politicians
American
- Bill Wilson , small government activist
- Bill Wilson , Montana state representative
- W. Eugene Wilson, member of the North Carolina General Assembly
- Will Wilson , American politician, attorney, and judge in Texas
- William A. Wilson , first U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See
- William B. Wilson, U.S. labor leader and political figure
- * SS William B. Wilson, a Liberty ship
- William C. Wilson , New York comptroller in 1906
- William E. Wilson , U.S. Representative from Indiana
- William H. Wilson , New York assemblyman
- William H. Wilson, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1935–1937
- William K. Wilson, Wisconsin state senator
- William Lyne Wilson, United States Postmaster General
- William Sydney Wilson, Confederate politician
- William T. Wilson, member of the Virginia House of Delegates
- William Warfield Wilson, U.S. Representative from Illinois
- William Wilson , Iowa state senator
- William M. Wilson , Iowa state senator
- William Wilson , U.S. Representative from Ohio
- William Wilson , U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1815–1819
- William Wilson , Wisconsin state senator
- Bill Wilson, mayor of Santa Clara, California, founder of the Bill Wilson Center for homeless youth
British
- William Wilson , MP for Southwark
- William Wilson , British Member of Parliament for Ilchester, 1761–1768
- William Wilson , MP for Donegal 1876–1879
- William Wilson , British trade unionist and Member of Parliament for Westhoughton
- William Wilson , British Labour Member of Parliament, 1964–1983
- Bill Wilson , Scottish nationalist
- William Wilson, prime minister of the micronation Austenasia
Canadian
- Bill Wilson , hereditary chief and politician in British Columbia
- William Wilson , merchant and politician in British Columbia
- William Wilson , Canadian politician in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
- William Wilson , politician in Upper Canada
- William Wallace Wilson, Alberta politician
- William Wilber Wilfred Wilson, Canadian politician
Australian
- William Wilson , member of the Queensland Legislative Council
- William Wilson , member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council
New Zealand
- William Wilson , first mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand, 1868
Sports
Association football
- William Wilson , English footballer for Newcastle United and Bradford City
- William Wilson , English footballer
- William Wilson , English footballer
- William Wilson , English footballer
- William Wilson , Scottish football goalkeeper for Queen of the South and Third Lanark
- William Wilson , Kenyan footballer
- Billy Wilson , English footballer
- Billy Wilson , Northern Irish football player for Burnley
- Billy Wilson , English footballer
- Billy Wilson , American soccer player
- Billy Wilson , played for Airdrieonians FC and managed Albion Rovers F.C.
- Willie Wilson , Scottish footballer, played for Hearts and Cowdenbeath
- Willie Wilson , Scottish footballer
- Willie Wilson , Scottish footballer
Baseball
- William Wilson , American baseball player
- Will Wilson , American baseball player
- Willie Wilson , American baseball outfielder
- Willy Wilson , baseball player
- Bill Wilson , MLB catcher
- Bill Wilson , MLB outfielder
- Bill Wilson , Major League Baseball pitcher
- Mookie Wilson, MLB outfielder
- Mutt Wilson, MLB pitcher
Australian rules football
- William Wilson , Australian rules footballer for Essendon and cricketer for Victoria
- Bill Wilson , Australian rules footballer for Richmond and Glenelg
- Billy Wilson , Australian rules footballer for Fitzroy
- Billy Wilson , Australian rules footballer for Carlton
Cricket
- William Wilson , Australian cricketer
- William Wilson , South African cricketer
- Billy Wilson , Australian cricketer
Rugby
- Billy Wilson , Australian rugby league footballer
- Billy Wilson , rugby league footballer of the 1910s, and 1920s for New Zealand, Wellington and Athletic
- Will Wilson , English rugby union and rugby sevens player
Other sports
- William Wilson , Scottish writer on swimming, and the inventor of water polo
- Billy Wilson , college football player
- William Wilson , American Olympic hockey player
- William George Wilson, sports cinematographer
- Willie Wilson , Scottish speedway rider
- Billy Wilson , NFL wide receiver
- William Wilson , Filipino swimmer
- Willy Wilson, Filipino basketball player
- William Wilson ,, British Olympic wrestler
Arts and entertainment
- William Wilson , English architect, builder and sculptor
- William Wilson , Scottish-American poet, bookseller and publisher
- W. J. Wilson , actor, scene painter and stage manager
- William Hardy Wilson, Australian architect, artist and author
- William Wilson , Scottish stained glass artist, printmaker and watercolours
- William E. Wilson , English portrait photographer
- William E. Wilson , American author and professor, son of the Indiana politician
- William Scott Wilson, author and translator of samurai literature
- Will Wilson , American painter of portraits, illustrations and trompe-l'œil works
- Will Wilson , Native American photographer
- William Wilson , lead singer of Legion Within
- William Llewellyn Wilson, conductor, musician, teacher and music educator from Baltimore
- Willie Wilson , member of Quiver; worked with Pink Floyd, Al Stewart
Business
- William Proctor Wilson, president of Buttrick Publishing Company
- Willie Wilson , Chicago businessman, musician, philanthropist, and political candidate
- William Willson , chairman of Aston Martin, 1972–1975
- W. R. Wilson, an Australian businessman with extensive interests in mining and a racehorse owner and breeder
- William Wilson, businessman, founder of Price's Candles
- Bill Wilson, founder of US firearms manufacturer Wilson Combat
Law and crime
- Billy Wilson , American outlaw who rode with Billy the Kid
- Bill Wilson , convicted of murdering two individuals who were later found alive
- Billy Roy Wilson, United States federal judge
- William Wilson , Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court
- Bill Wilson , New Zealand judge of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal
- William C. Wilson , Vermont lawyer and judge
- William Adam Wilson, professor of Scots Law at Edinburgh University
- William Rae Wilson, Scottish lawyer and travel writer
- William Robert Wilson, Australian murderer involved in the 1976 Spring Hill shooting
Military
- Sir William Deane Wilson, British army surgeon-general
- William Wilson , one of nineteen people to receive the Medal of Honor twice
- William Othello Wilson, member of the US Army's 9th Cavalry, and recipient of the Medal of Honor
- William Tecumseh Wilson, American Union brevet brigadier general from Ohio
- William Wilson , American Union brevet brigadier general from New York
- William Wilson , Commodore of the East India Company
Religion
- William Wilson , Canon of Windsor
- William Wilson , co-founder of the Secession Church
- William Carus Wilson, English churchman and founder and editor of The Children's Friend
- William Wilson , Anglican bishop in Scotland
- William Wilson Presbyterian minister, moderator of the Free Church
- William Hay Wilson, Anglican priest
- William C. Wilson , General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene
- William Lyall Wilson, minister of the Church of Scotland
- Bill Wilson , president and founder of Metro Ministries International
- William Wilson , theologian affiliated with Oral Roberts University
- William Wilson , Dean of Cloyne, 1908–1934
- William Croft Wilson, American Congregational minister
Science
- William Wilson , English botanist
- William James Erasmus Wilson, physician and surgeon
- William Edward Wilson , Irish astronomer
- William Parkinson Wilson, English astronomer and professor of mathematics
- William Wilson , English physicist
- William Wilson , English-born physicist
- William Hawkins Wilson, British physiologist
- William L. Wilson , American scientist
Others
- William "Amos" Wilson, folklore figure of southern Pennsylvania, referred to as "The Pennsylvania Hermit"
- William A. Wilson , studied and taught Mormon folklore
- Bill W., co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
- Edward Wilson , known as Uncle Bill, Antarctic explorer
- William Wilson , English railway pioneer in Germany
- William E. Wilson, British railway civil engineer, first employer of John Harry Grainger
- William Julius Wilson, sociologist
- William L. Wilson , professor of electrical engineering
In fiction
- "William Wilson" , an 1839 short story by Edgar Allan Poe
- "William Wilson", a song from The Smithereens' 1989 album 11
- Wilson the Wonder Athlete, a character in British story and comic papers published by D.C. Thomson
- Billy Wilson, a character in Angels with Broken Wings
- Agent Bill Wilson, also known as CIA, a character in ''The Dark Knight Rises''