# William Davies

William, Will, Bill, or Billy Davies may refer to:

## Sportspeople

* William Davies (English cricketer) (fl. 1844)
* William Davies (cricketer, born 1825) (1825–1868), English cricketer and clergyman
* William Davies (footballer, born 1854) (1854–1916), Oswestry F.C. and Wales international footballer
* William Davies (sport shooter) (1881–1942), Canadian sport shooter who competed in Shooting at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's trap
* William Davies (footballer, born 1882) (1882–1966), Wrexham F.C., Blackburn Rovers F.C. and Wales international footballer
* Bill L. Davies (1883–1959), Australian rules footballer
* Billy Davies (Welsh footballer) (1883–1960), Crystal Palace F.C., West Bromwich Albion F.C. and Wales international footballer
* William Davies (footballer, born 1873) (1873–1929), English footballer for Bolton Wanderers
* William Davies (footballer, born 1884) (1884–1954), footballer for Stoke
* William Davies (rugby) (1890–1967), Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1910s and 1920s
* Bill Davies (golfer) (1892–1967), English Ryder Cup golfer
* Will Davies (rugby) (fl. 1910s), rugby league footballer for Great Britain, Wales and Halifax
* Willie Davies (footballer) (1900–1953), Swansea Town F.C., Cardiff City F.C., Notts County F.C.,Tottenham Hotspur F.C. and Wales international footballer
* Bill Davies (cricketer, born 1901) (1901–?), Welsh cricketer
* Will Davies (rugby union) (1906–1975), Wales international rugby union player
* Bill Davies (cricketer, born 1906) (1906–1971), Welsh cricketer
* Taffy Davies (William Davies, 1910–1995), Welsh footballer with Watford
* Billy Davies (Welsh rugby) (William H. J. Davies, fl. 1930s), rugby union and rugby league footballer
* Bill Davies (Canadian football) (1916–1990), Canadian football player
* Willie Davies (1916–2002), Welsh dual-code rugby footballer
* Bill Davies (rugby league) (fl. 1940s), rugby league footballer for Wales, and Huddersfield
* Bill Davies (footballer) (1930–2003), Australian footballer
* William Davies (wrestler) (1931–2020), Australian Olympic wrestler
* Billy Davies (cricketer, born 1936), Welsh former cricketer
* Tony Davies (William Anthony Davies, 1939–2008), New Zealand rugby union footballer
* Billy Davies (rugby league, born 1948) (William Davies), English rugby league footballer
* Dai Davies (footballer, born 1948) (William David Davies, 1948–2021), Welsh goalkeeper
* Billy Davies (born 1964), Scottish footballer and manager
* William Davies (cricketer, born 1972), English cricketer

## Politicians

* William Davies (Georgia judge) (1775–1829), Georgia-based politician and lawyer
* William Davies (Pembrokeshire MP) (1821–1895), British Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire, 1880–1892
* William Davies (New South Wales politician) (1824–1890)
* William T. Davies (1831–1912), lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, United States, 1887–1891
* Sir William Howell Davies (politician) (1851–1932), British Member of Parliament for Bristol South, 1906–1922
* William Thomas Frederick Davies (1860–1947), South African surgeon, army officer and politician
* William Rees-Davies (judge) (William Rees Morgan Davies, 1863–1939), British Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire, 1892–1898
* Rupert Davies (politician) (William Rupert Davies, 1879–1967), Canadian author, newspaper publisher and Senator
* Billy Davies (politician) (1884–1956), Welsh-born Australian member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and the Australian Parliament
* William Gwynne Davies (1916–1999), trade unionist and politician in Saskatchewan, Canada

## Other people

* William Davies (priest) (died 1593), Welsh Roman Catholic priest and martyr
* William Davies (highwayman) (died 1689), known as the Golden Farmer and hanged in Surrey, England
* William Davies (actor) (1751–1809), English actor
* William Davies (Virginia) (fl. 1770s), Continental Army officer in the American Revolutionary War
* William Davies (fl. late 18th century), British bullet-mould maker, founder of arms manufacturer Webley & Scott
* William Davies (died 1819), English publisher with Cadell & Davies
* William Davies (palaeontologist) (1814–1891), British palaeontologist
* William Edmund Davies (1819–1879), bookmaker
* William Broughton Davies (1831–1906), Sierra Leonean medical doctor
* William Henry Davies (entrepreneur) (1831–1921), Canadian pork packer
* William W. Davies (1833–1906), leader of a schismatic Latter Day Saint group in Washington, United States
* William Davies (master mariner) (1862–1936), sea captain and partner in Davies and Newman
* W. H. Davies (William Henry Davies, 1871–1940), Welsh poet
* William Llewelyn Davies (1887–1952), chief librarian of the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
* William David Davies (1897–1969), Welsh Presbyterian minister and theologian
* William J. Davies (fl. 1900–1927), Welsh trade union leader
* William W. Davies (USMC) (1900–1985), United States Marine Corps general
* Sir William Arthian Davies (1901–1979), British lawyer and judge
* William Edward Davies (1917–1990), American geologist and caver
* William H. Davies (1931–2017), justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia
* William Davies (psychologist) (born 1950), British psychologist
* William Davies (screenwriter) (fl. 1980s–2010s), British-born American screenwriter
* William Davies (political writer) (born 1976), English writer, political and sociological theorist
* William Davies (barber-surgeon), English barber-surgeon and traveller
* Bill Davies (died 2016), English real estate developer, owner of Old Chicago Main Post Office

## Characters

* Will Davies (Hollyoaks), a character on Hollyoaks
* Billy Davies (River City), a character on River City

## Other uses

* William Davies Company, former Canadian pork packing firm