# William White

William White may refer to:

## Politics

* William White (MP for City of London), for City of London (Parliament of England constituency)
* William White (MP for Lymington) (died 1594), MP for Lymington
* William White (MP for Clitheroe) (1606–1661), MP for Clitheroe in 1660
* William White (Secretary of State) (1762–1811), North Carolina Secretary of State, 1798–1811
* William Duckett White (1807–1893), member of the Queensland Legislative Council
* William White (Maryland politician) (1824–1885), American politician from Maryland
* Sir William Arthur White (1824–1891), British diplomat
* William White (New Zealand politician) (1849–1900), New Zealand Member of Parliament
* William J. White (politician) (1850–1923), United States Representative from Ohio
* William Pūnohu White (1851–1925), Hawaiian politician
* William White (Canadian politician) (1856–1953), elected member of the 1st Council of the Northwest Territories, 1883–1885
* Sir William Thomas White (1866–1955), Canadian politician and Cabinet minister
* William Henry White (politician) (1865–1930), Canadian Member of Parliament from Alberta
* William P. White (mayor) (died 1938), mayor of Lawrence, Massachusetts

## Judges

* William White (Ohio judge) (1822–1883), Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio and Ohio Supreme Court judge
* William H. White (judge) (1842–1914), justice of the Washington Supreme Court
* William Sylvester White (1914–2004), American judge and member of the Golden Thirteen

## Religion

* William White (bishop of Pennsylvania) (1748–1836), Episcopal bishop in America, Presiding Bishop and Chaplain of Congress
* William C. White (1854–1937), son of Seventh-day Adventist Church founder Ellen G. White
* William White (bishop of Newfoundland) (1865–1943), Anglican bishop in Canada
* William White (bishop of Honan) (1873–1960), Anglican bishop in China
* William White (bishop of the Southeast) (born 1947), Reformed Episcopal Church bishop in South Carolina
* William A. White (1874–1936), American-Canadian Baptist minister, and only Black military chaplain in the British Empire during World War I
* William J. White (journalist) (1831–1913), African-American civil rights leader, journalist (editor of the Georgia Baptist), educator, and minister in Augusta, Georgia
* William White (priest), Anglican priest in Ireland in the late 18th and early 19th centuries
* William White (missionary), missionary for the Wesleyan Church in New Zealand

## Sports

* William White (footballer) (born 1995), Bermudan footballer
* William Edward White (1860–1937), American baseball first baseman, possibly the first African-American to play major league baseball
* Will White (1854–1911), American baseball pitcher and manager
* William White (field hockey) (1920–1990), Scottish sportsman who played cricket and field hockey
* William White (British Army officer) (1879–1951), English cricketer
* William White (American football) (1966–2022), American football player
* Will White (American football), American football player
* William White (Guyanese cricketer) (born 1953), Guyanese cricketer
* William White (sport shooter) (1912–2011), British Olympic shooter
* William C. White (American football) (1896–1986), American football coach
* William Deacon White (1878–1939), American educator and sports promoter in Edmonton, Alberta

## Music, media, and writers

* William White (composer) (1571–c. 1634), English composer
* William White (printer) (before 1577–1618), based in London, printed the first quarto of Shakespeare's Love's Labors Lost (1598) for publisher Cuthbert Burby
* William White (publisher) (1799–1868), publisher of White's Directories in the 19th century
* William White (journalist) (1807–1882), British pamphleteer and parliamentary sketch writer
* William Allen White (1868–1944), American newspaper editor
* William Lindsay White (1900–1973), American journalist
* William Chapman White (1903–1955), American journalist
* William S. White (1905–1994), American journalist and biographer
* William White (academic) (1910–1995), American academic of journalism and bibliographer
* William Anthony Parker White (1911–1968), better known by his pen name Anthony Boucher, American author, critic, and editor
* William White (actor) (1921–1985), film producer and actor
* William H. White (publisher) (c. 1925–1989), American author, editor and publisher
* William H. White (maritime writer), American naval historical novelist
* William White, one of the pseudonyms of Finnish singer Irwin Goodman (1943–1991)

## Military

* William Allison White (1894–1974), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
* Sir William Henry White (1845–1913), British warship designer
* William J. White (general) (1925–2017), American general
* William White (conscientious objector), Australian conscientious objector during the Vietnam War
* William R. White (United States Army officer), U.S. Army general
* William Sylvester White (1914–2004), American judge and member of the Golden Thirteen

## Architecture

* William White (architect) (1825–1900), English architect
* William H. White (architect) (1838–1896), British architect

## Science and medicine

* William Alanson White (1870–1937), American neurologist and alienist
* William Comings White (1890–1965), engineer, General Electric, Schenectady, NY
* William E. White, American neurologist and author
* J. William White (1850–1916), US surgeon
* William L. White (born 1947), writer on addiction recovery and policy
* William Toby White, Australian ichthyologist

## Others

* William White (economist) (born 1943), Canadian economist
* William White (gangster) (1900–1934), Prohibition gangster and Chicago Outfit gunman
* William White (Mayflower passenger) (c. 1580–1621)
* William White (master), English academic, master of Balliol College, Oxford
* William R. White (academic administrator) (1892–1977), president of Hardin-Simmons University, and of Baylor University
* William Hale White (1831–1913), English writer and civil servant
* Larry Grayson (1923–1995), English stand-up comedy and gameshow host, born William White