# William Bell

William or Willie Bell may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

* William Bell (artist) (1735–1794), English portrait painter
* William Bell (architect) (1789–1865), Scottish-born architect who practiced in North Carolina
* William Bell (photographer) (1830–1910), English-born American photographer
* William Henry Bell (1873–1946), English composer
* William Bell (tuba player) (1902–1971), American tuba player and teacher
* William J. Bell (1927–2005), American writer and producer of TV soap operas
* William Bell (singer) (born 1939), American soul singer and songwriter
* William Bell (author) (1945–2016), Canadian young adult fiction author
* William Brent Bell (born 1980), American film director
* William Bell (Fringe), character from the 2008–2013 TV series Fringe

## Politics and law
### United Kingdom

* William Bell (lawyer) (c. 1538–1598), English lawyer
* William Bell (apothecary) (died 1668), English apothecary and politician who sat in the House of Commons
* Cory Bell (William Cory Heward Bell, 1875–1961), British MP for Devizes

### United States

* William Bell Jr. (politician) (1828–1902), American politician from Ohio
* William H. Bell (Wisconsin politician) (1863–1937), American politician from Wisconsin
* William A. Bell (born 1949), mayor of Birmingham, Alabama

### Other countries

* William R. Bell (1876–1927), Australian colonial District Officer in the Solomon Islands, assassinated
* William Henry Dillon Bell (1884–1917), New Zealand politician
* William Henry Bell (businessman) (fl. 1930s), British businessman and politician in Hong Kong
* William F. Bell (1938–2013), Canadian politician; mayor of Richmond Hill, Ontario
* William Montgomerie Bell (1813–1867), merchant and politician in colonial Victoria, Australia

## Religion

* William Bell (bishop) (died 1343), Scottish Bishop of St Andrews
* William Bell (priest) (1625–1683), English archdeacon of St Albans and sermon writer
* William Bell (field preacher) (fl. 1670s), Scottish minister and prisoner on the Bass Rock
* William Bell (theologian) (1731–1816), English theologian
* William Bell (clergyman) (1780–1857), Scottish-born Presbyterian minister in Upper Canada
* William Yancy Bell (1887–1962), American bishop for the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

## Sports
### Association football (soccer)

* William Bell (Welsh footballer) (1860–1930), Welsh footballer
* William Bell (English footballer) (1905–1937), English footballer (Sheffield United, Grimsby Town, Hull City)
* Willie Bell (1937–2023), Scottish football player and manager

### Other sports

* William P. Bell (1886–1953), American golf course architect
* Billy Bell (ice hockey) (1891–1952), Canadian ice hockey player
* William Bell (baseball) (1897–1969), American Negro league baseball pitcher and manager
* William M. Bell (1909–1991), American college football player and coach
* William Bell Jr. (baseball) (1930–2021), American Negro league baseball pitcher
* William "Whitey" Bell (born 1932), American basketball player
* William Bell (American football) (born 1971), American football player
* William Lawrence Bell, Jr (pickleball) (1924–2006), one of the creators of the racket sport pickleball

## Others

* William Bell (railway architect) (1844-1919), born in York who designed the extension of Hull Paragon Interchange Station around 1900
* William Bell (East India Company), East India Company factor in Iran; his grave being the oldest British grave in Iran
* William Bell (Canadian businessman, born 1806) (1806–1844), Canadian businessman and militia officer
* William Nathaniel Bell (1817–1887), American pioneer; settled Seattle, Washington
* William Abraham Bell (1841–1921), English physician and photographer of the American west; founder of Manitou Springs, Colorado
* William Augustus Bell (1882–1961), American businessman, educator, and president of Miles College in Alabama
* William Robert Bell (1845–1913), Canadian militia officer, farmer, and businessman
* William H. Bell (fl. 1860s), African-American servant of William Seward
* William Harrison Bell (1927–2016), American oral and maxillofacial surgeon
* William Dwane Bell (born 1978), New Zealand criminal
* William J. Bell (entomologist) (1943–1998), American entomologist
* William Francis Bell (1918–1984), American golf course architect

## Other uses

* William Bell, No. 24, 1865 pilot boat used by the Sandy Hook pilots in New Jersey