# William Cooper

William Cooper may refer to:

## Business

* William Cooper (accountant) (1826–1871), founder of Cooper Brothers
* William Cooper (businessman) (1761–1840), Canadian businessman
* William Cooper (co-operator) (1822–1868), English co-operator
* William E. Cooper (civic leader) (1921–2008), businessman in Dallas, Texas
* William W. Cooper (1914–2012), management scientist

## Government

* William B. Cooper (Delaware politician) (1771–1849), American farmer and politician
* William B. Cooper (North Carolina politician) (1867–1959), lieutenant governor of North Carolina
* William C. Cooper (politician) (1832–1902), US congressman from Ohio
* William Cooper (judge) (1754–1809), father of James Fenimore Cooper and founder of Cooperstown, New York
* William Cooper (Prince Edward Island politician), Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island
* Prentice Cooper (William Prentice Cooper, 1895–1969), Tennessee governor
* William Raworth Cooper (1793–1856), US congressman from New Jersey
* William Frierson Cooper (1820–1909), lawyer, politician and judge of the Tennessee Supreme Court
* Bill Cooper (Georgia politician) (born 1933), American former politician and judge
* William Cooper (Australian politician) (1868–1957), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
* William Prentice Cooper (1870–1961), Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives

## Literature and arts

* William Cooper (novelist) (1910–2002), British novelist
* William C. Cooper (actor) (1853–1918), stage and film actor
* William Cooper Nell (1816–1874), African-American abolitionist
* William Heaton Cooper (1903–1995), British landscape artist
* William J. Cooper Jr. (born 1940), American historian
* William T. Cooper (1934–2015), Australian natural history illustrator
* Revd William Cooper (1824–1892), pseudonym of James Bertram, a Scottish pornography producer
* William Sidney Cooper (1854–1927), English landscape artist
* William Brown Cooper (1811–1900), American painter
* William Y. Cooper (1934–2016), African-American painter, writer and illustrator
* Milton William Cooper (1943–2001), American conspiracy theorist and author

### Characters

* William Cooper, a CIA agent in the 2010 film Red

## Science

* William Cooper (chemical manufacturer) (1813–1885), British sheep dip manufacturer
* William Cooper (conchologist) (1798–1864), American conchologist
* William Skinner Cooper (1894–1978), American ecologist
* William White Cooper, English surgeon-oculist

## Sports

* Bill Cooper (American football) (born 1939), professional football player for the San Francisco 49ers
* Bill Cooper (baseball) (1915–1985), American Negro leagues baseball player
* Bill Cooper (hurler) (born 1987), Irish hurler
* William Cooper (cricketer) (1849–1939), Australian cricketer
* William Osborne Cooper (1891–1930), Australian cricketer
* Bill Cooper (sailor) (1928–2016), Royal Navy officer, sailor and author
* William Cooper (sailor) (1910–1968), Olympic gold medalist of 1932
* Billy Cooper (Canadian football) (born 1945), Canadian football player
* Billy Cooper (footballer) (1917–?), English footballer
* Willie Cooper (1909–1994), Scottish footballer (Aberdeen FC)
* Billy Cooper (trumpeter), cricket supporter and trumpet player for the Barmy Army
* Willie Cooper (footballer, born 1886) (1886–?), English footballer for Barnsley and Rochdale

## Other fields

* Milton William Cooper (1943–2001), American writer, radio host, and political activist
* William Cooper (Aboriginal Australian) (c. 1860–1941), Aboriginal rights leader
* William Cooper (Puritan) (fl. 1653), chaplain to Elizabeth of Bohemia and ejected minister
* William Cooper (priest) (1833/34–1909), Church of England priest
* William Cooper (Quaker) (1856–1952), director of Cadbury Ltd in Australia
* William Durrant Cooper (1812–1875), English lawyer and antiquary
* William John Cooper (1882–1935), American educator
* William Turakiuta Cooper (1886–1949), New Zealand interpreter and land officer
* William Cooper (banker), Governor of the Bank of England from 1769 to 1771
* William E. Cooper (general) (1929–2023), United States Army general
* William E. Cooper (university president), president of the University of Richmond (1998–2007)