# William Martin

William Martin may refer to:

## Arts

* William Martin (painter) (1753 – c. 1836), English history painter
* William Martin (architect) (1829–1900), British architect
* E. William Martin (1891–1977), Scottish-born American architect
* William Martin (garden designer) (born 1953), Scottish-born Australian plantsman and garden designer
* William Martin (novelist), American novelist
* William Martin (tenor) (1898–1960), American opera singer
* William E. Martin (1945–2016), American songwriter, screenwriter and voice actor
* William H. "Dad" Martin (fl. 1894–1912), American photographer
* William Martin (director) (fl. 1974–2017), American stage director

## Military

* William T. Martin (1823–1910), American lawyer, politician and Confederate States Army general
* William Martin (Royal Navy officer) (c. 1696–1756), naval officer and admiral
* Sir William Martin, 4th Baronet (1801–1895), First Sea Lord of Britain, 1858–1859
* William Martin (American sailor, USS Benton) (1835–1914), New York born American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
* William Martin (American sailor, USS Varuna) (fl. 1839–1863), Irish-born American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
* William Martin (Royal Marine officer), invented by British military intelligence for a Second World War deception plan
* William Franklin Martin (1863–1942), United States Army general

## Politics and government

* William Martin, 1st Baron Martin (died 1324), English noble
* Sir William Martin (Athelhampton), MP for Dorset in 1478
* William Martin (MP for Exeter) (died c. 1609), MP for Exeter (UK Parliament constituency), 1597
* William D. Martin (1789–1833), US congressman from South Carolina
* William Martin (merchant) (1806–1859), American merchant, politician in Tennessee
* Sir William Martin (judge) (1807–1880), first Chief Justice of New Zealand, 1841–1857
* William Harrison Martin (1822–1898), U.S. Representative from Texas
* William V. Martin (fl. 1880–1916), British Vice-Consul in Ferrol, Spain
* William T. Martin (mayor) (1788–1866), mayor of Columbus, Ohio
* Lee Martin (politician) (William Lee Martin, 1870–1950), New Zealand politician of the Labour Party
* William Melville Martin (1876–1970), premier of Saskatchewan
* William Martin (Canadian politician) (1886–1973), Canadian clergyman and politician
* William Martin (Scottish politician) (1886–1939), British MP for Dunbartonshire, 1923–1924
* William McChesney Martin (1906–1998), American business executive, former Federal Reserve Chairman
* William Martin (Australian politician) (1834–1917), New South Wales politician
* William B. Martin (1846–1916), American politician
* William O'Hara Martin (1845–1901), American merchant, politician and banker from Nevada
* William E. Martin (New York politician) (1886–1923), American politician from New York

## Science, engineering and philosophy

* William Martin (naturalist) (1767–1810), English naturalist and palaeontologist
* William Martin (philosopher) (1772–1851), English inventor, eccentric, and philosopher
* William Charles Linnaeus Martin (1798–1864), English naturalist
* William Clyde Martin Jr. (1929–2013), American physicist
* William Keble Martin (1877–1969), British botanist
* William A. Martin (1938–1981), American computer scientist
* William F. Martin (born 1957), American botanist and molecular biologist
* William Flynn Martin (born 1950), energy economist, educator, and international diplomat
* William Hamilton Martin (1931–1987), American cryptologist, defector to the Soviet Union

## Sport

* William Martin (Australian cricketer) (1856–1938), Australian cricketer
* William Martin (English cricketer) (1844–1871), English cricketer
* William Martin (footballer), professional footballer for Huddersfield Town
* William Martin (sport shooter) (1866–1931), American Olympic sport shooter
* William Martin (swimmer) (born 2000), Australian Paralympic swimmer
* William Martin (water polo) (1906–1980), British Olympic water polo player
* William Martin (Olympic sailor) (1828–1905), French sailor
* William C. Martin, University of Michigan athletics director
* William K. Martin (c. 1868–1949), American college football and baseball coach
* Trevor Martin (umpire) (William Trevor Martin, 1925–2017), New Zealand Test cricket umpire
* Willie Martin (Scottish footballer) (fl. 1933–1940)

## Others

* William Martin (born 1796), with Bass and Flinders in Tom Thumb, see Martin Islet (New South Wales)
* William Alexander Parsons Martin, American Presbyterian missionary and translator
* William Byam Martin, English merchant and official of the East India Company
* William Clyde Martin (1893–1984), American Methodist bishop
* William Joseph Martin Jr. (1868–1943), president of Davidson College
* William R. H. Martin (1842–1912), American businessman
* William Thomas Martin (fl. 1883–1947), South Australian school inspector