# William Wood

William Wood may refer to:

## Banking

* William Wood (banker, born 1808) (1808–1894), Scottish-American banker
* William Henry O'Malley Wood (1856–1941), Australian banker, public servant and surveyor

## Entertainment

* William B. Wood (actor) (1779–1861), American theatre manager and actor
* William Wood (ventriloquist) (c. 1861–1908), American illusionist and ventriloquist
* Will Wood, American alternative singer-songwriter and lead singer of The Tapeworms
* Merlyn Wood (William Anku Kraka Mawuli Andoh Wood Jr., born 1996), American vocalist for the band Brockhampton

## Government
### Civil servants

* William P. Wood (1820–1903), first Director of the United States Secret Service
* W. A. R. Wood (William Alfred Rae Wood) (1878–1970), British diplomat in Siam
* Sir William Alan Wood (1916–2010), British civil servant
* William McKenzie Wood, Canadian ambassador to Israel in 1965
* William Braucher Wood (born 1950), American diplomat, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and Colombia

### Politicians

* William Wood (Berkshire MP), Member of Parliament for Berkshire, 1395
* William Wood (Winchester MP), MP for Winchester, 1413–1416
* William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley (1801–1881), British statesman and Lord Chancellor
* William Wood (Pontefract MP) (1816–1872), British MP for Pontefract
* William Wood (politician, born 1827) (1827–1884), New Zealand politician, MP for Invercargill and Mataura
* William Wood (Texas politician), member of the Twentieth Texas Legislature (1887–1888)
* William Thomas Wood (1854–1943), New Zealand politician
* William R. Wood (Indiana politician) (1861–1933), U.S. Representative from Indiana
* William Wood (Australian politician) (1869–1953), member of the New South Wales Parliament
* William Robertson Wood (1874–1947), Canadian Presbyterian minister and member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

## Industry

* William Wood (ironmaster) (1671–1730), British ironmaster and mint master
* William Willis Wood (mayor) (1844–1905), English mill owner, Wesleyan Methodist preacher and mayor of Bradford
* William Bruce Wood (1848–1928), Canadian mill owner and political figure in Ontario
* William Madison Wood (1858–1926), American textile mill owner in Massachusetts
* William B. Wood (builder) (fl. 1890s), American building contractor in Kentucky
* Sir William Valentine Wood (1883–1959), Irish-born president of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 1941–1947

## Military

* William Maxwell Wood (1809–1880), United States Navy officer and surgeon, first Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy
** USS William M. Wood, the name of three ships of the U.S. Navy (two canceled, one built)
* William W. Wood (1818–1882), U.S. Navy engineer and head of the Bureau of Steam Engineering
* William D. Wood (1822–1867), American Union brevet brigadier general

## Science and medicine

* William Wood (botanist) (1745–1808), English botanist and Unitarian minister
* William Wood (zoologist) (1774–1857), English entomologist
* William Wood (Scottish surgeon) (1782–1858), Scottish surgeon
* William Wood (naturalist) (1822–1885), American physician and naturalist

## Sports
### Football (soccer)

* William Wood (footballer, born 1900) (1900–?), English football player for Aberdare Athletic and Stoke
* William Wood (footballer, born 1904) (1904–1961), English footballer, goalkeeper for Rochdale
* William Wood (footballer, born April 1910) (1910–?), English football defender for Burnley and Yeovil Town
* William Wood (footballer, born June 1910) (1910–1958), English footballer for several teams including Blackburn Rovers and Burnley
* Will Wood (footballer) (born 1996), English football defender for several teams including Ebbsfleet United

### Other sports

* William Wood (cricketer) (1849–1924), Australian cricketer
* William Wood (runner) (1881–1940), English-born Canadian marathon runner
* William Wood (wrestler) (1886–1971), British wrestler
* William Wood (rower) (1899–1969), Canadian rower and Olympic silver medalist
* William H. Wood (American football) (1900–1988), American gridiron football coach and United States Army officer
* William Wood (diver) (1946–2000), English competition diver

## Trade unions

* William Henry Wood (fl. 1860s), British trade union leader
* William H. Wood, American labor union leader, first president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, 1889–1890
* William Wood (trade unionist, born 1873) (1873–1956), British trade union leader

## Others

* William Wightman Wood (fl. 1804–1833), American journalist, businessman and poet
* William Halsey Wood (1855–1897), American architect
* William Charles Henry Wood (1864–1947), Canadian historian
* William J. Wood (1877–1954), Canadian painter and etcher
* William Ransom Wood (1907–2001), president of the University of Alaska, 1960–1973
* William Wood (screenwriter), American screenwriter