William (name)
William is of Norman origin and the English form of the masculine name Wilhelm.
- 2.1 Single Name
- 2.2 first name
- 2.3 artist name
Variants
Short forms
Feminine form
- Williamina (mainly Scottish)
Bearers of the name
Single Name
- William the Conqueror ( William I the Conqueror ) of England ( 1027-1087 )
- William de Corbeil ( William of Corbeil, † 1136 ), Archbishop of Canterbury
- William III. of England (1650-1702)
- William Aetheling (~ 1103-1120 ), Anglo -Norman Prince
- William ap Thomas († 1445 ), Welsh nobleman
- William d' Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel (~ 1109-1176 ), member of the court of King Henry I of England
- William de Braose ( 1049-1093/1096 ), Norman Noble
- William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln ( ~ 1096 - ~ 1161 ), Baron of Kendall, Lord of Bolingbroke in Lincolnshire, Lord of Roumare in Normandy
- William de Tracy († 1189 ), English knights
- William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey ( † 1088)
- William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey ( † 1138 )
- William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey ( † 1148 )
- William, Duke of Cambridge ( b. 1982 ), heir to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776-1834), member of the British Royal Family
- William Giffard († 1129 ), Lord Chancellor and Keeper of the Seals of England ( 1093-1101 )
- William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743-1805), member of the British Royal Family
- William Kirkcaldy of Grange (1520-1573), Scottish military leader and politician, Mary Stuart defeated armies
- Longespée William of Salisbury ( 1209-1250 to ), English knights and crusaders
- Longespée William, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (c. 1175/1180-1226 ), English nobleman
- William McIntosh (1775-1825), chief of the Muskogee, signer of the Treaty of Indian Springs
- William of Sherwood (~ ~ 1200/1210- 1266/1272 ), English logician of the Middle Ages
- William of Kilkenny († ~ 1256/1258 ), Lord Chancellor of England and Bishop of Ely
- William of Norwich (1132-1144), alleged ritual murder victims
- William of York († 1256), Bishop of Salisbury
First name
- William Bligh (1754-1817), British naval officer, captain of the Bounty, and Governor of New South Wales, Cyprus and Tanganyika
- William Chamberlain ( politician ) ( 1755-1828 ), American politician
- William Collum ( born 1979 ), Scottish football referee
- William Faulkner (1897-1962), American writer
- William S. Hatcher (1935-2005), American mathematician, philosopher and theologian Bahai
- William E. Humphrey (1862-1934), American politician
- William Johnson (General ) ( 1715-1774 ), British- Irish traders, politicians and general
- William Johnson ( judge) ( 1771-1834 ), American lawyer
- William B. Johnson ( born 1944 ), American mathematician
- William Cost Johnson (1806-1860), American politician
- William Ernest Johnson (1858-1931), British logician
- William Richard Johnson (1875-1938), American politician
- William Robert Johnson (1918-1986), American Bishop
- William Samuel Johnson (1727-1819), British- American politician, one of the founding fathers of the United States
- William Summer Johnson (1913-1995), American chemist
- William Ward Johnson (1892-1963), American politician
- William Mulholland (1855-1935), Irish- American hydraulic engineer
- William Nygaard ( born 1943 ), Norwegian publisher
- William Alfred Passavant (1821-1894), American clergyman and founder of the U.S. Diakonia
- William Penn (1644-1718), Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English poet and playwright
- William Tyndale (~ 1484-1536 ), English priest and Bible translator
- William Alexander Werbeniuk (1947-2003), Canadian snooker player
- William Wallace ( ~ 1270-1305 ), Scottish Patriot
- William Wharton (1925-2008), American author
- William Wolfensberger (1889-1918), Swiss poet priest
Artist Name
- will.i.am ( born 1975 ), actually William James Adams, Jr., American musician and producer
William as a surname
- George William, American Cinematographer, director and singer
- Kyrillos Kamal William Samaan ( born 1946 ), Egyptian religious cleric, Coptic Catholic Bishop of Assiut
- Niels William ( * 1974; actually William Vaesen ), Flemish singer and manager
- Peter William ( b. 1935; actually Peter William Koch), German Ringer
- William - Olsson days (1888-1960), Swedish architect
- Warren William (1895-1948; actually Warren William Krech ), American actor
William as a nickname
- William Hippopotamus for an ancient Egyptian hippo sculpture in New York