# William Richardson

William, Will, Willie, Bill, or Billy Richardson may refer to:

## Government and politics
### Ireland

* William Richardson (1656–1727), MP for Armagh and Hillsborough
* William Richardson (died 1755) (1690–1755), MP for Augher
* William Richardson (1710–1758), MP for Armagh
* William Richardson (1749–1822), MP for Armagh
* Sir William Richardson, 1st Baronet (died 1830), MP for Augher and Ballyshannon

### United States

* Bill Richardson (1947–2023), Governor of New Mexico, U.S. Secretary of Energy, Congressman; 2008 Presidential candidate
* Friend Richardson (William Richardson, 1865–1943), 25th governor of California
* H. L. Richardson (Hubert Leon "Bill" Richardson, 1927–2020), California state senator
* Willy Bo Richardson (born 1974), American artist
* William Richardson (Maryland politician) (1735–1825), Revolutionary War soldier
* William Richardson (Mississippi politician) (1951–1997), Mississippi politician and teacher
* William Richardson (South Carolina politician) (1743–1786), South Carolina politician
* William Adams Richardson (1821–1896), Treasury secretary
* William Alexander Richardson (1811–1875), U.S. senator from Illinois
* William B. Richardson (1874–1945), Minnesota state senator
* William Bebb Richardson (1912–2006), California mammalogist
* William Blaney Richardson (1868–1927), American-Nicaraguan naturalist and professional collector of zoological specimens
* William Emanuel Richardson (1886–1948), U.S. representatives from Pennsylvania
* William Henry Richardson (1808–1878), Connecticut state legislator
* William M. Richardson (1774–1838), U.S. representative from Massachusetts, 1811–1814
* William Richardson (Alabama politician) (1839–1914), U.S. representative from Alabama, 1900–1914
* William P. Richardson (Ohio politician) (1824–1886), Republican politician from the state of Ohio, USA
* William P. Richardson (law school dean) (1864–1945), American co-founder and first Dean of Brooklyn Law School
* William P. Richardson (New York politician) (1848–1923), New York politician
* William S. Richardson (1919–2010), lieutenant governor of Hawaii
* William O. Richardson (born 1954), American politician
* William U. Richardson, lawyer and member of the Louisiana House of Representatives

### Other

* William Richardson (colonial administrator) (died 1829), Deputy Governor of Anguilla
* William Westbrooke Richardson (died 1771), High Sheriff of Sussex in 1770
* William Richardson (Ontario politician)

## Sports

* William Richardson (Cambridge University cricketer) (1861–1933), English cricketer with Cambridge University
* William Richardson (Worcestershire cricketer) (1894–1971), English cricketer with Worcestershire
* William Richardson (Derbyshire cricketer) (born 1938), English cricketer with Derbyshire
* William Richardson (New South Wales cricketer) (1866–1930), Australian cricketer with New South Wales
* Bill Richardson (runner) (1903–1969), American Olympic runner
* William "Ginger" Richardson, known as W. G. Richardson (1909–1959), English footballer
* William Richardson (footballer) (1880–1903), Australian rules footballer
* Billy Richardson (footballer, born 1896) (1896–1959), English footballer
* Bill Richardson (footballer, born 1908) (1908–1985), English footballer
* Bill Richardson (footballer, born 1943), English footballer
* Billy Richardson (footballer, born 1920) (1920–2004), Irish soccer player
* Willie Richardson (1939–2016), American football wide receiver
* Bill Richardson (baseball) (1878–1949), American baseball player
* Willie Richardson (wrestler), member of Da Soul Touchaz
* Will Richardson (basketball) (born 1999), American basketball player
* Will Richardson (American football) (born 1996), American football player

## Religion

* William Richardson (martyr) (1572–1603), beatified Roman Catholic martyr
* William Richardson (bishop) (1844–1915), Anglican Bishop of Zanzibar, 1895–1901

## Academics

* William Richardson (antiquary) (1698–1775), English academic and antiquary
* William Richardson (classicist) (1743–1814), Scottish professor and scholar
* William Richardson (astronomer) (1796–1872), British astronomer
* William J. Richardson (1920–2016), American philosopher
* William C. Richardson (1940–2021), President of Johns Hopkins University, 1990–1995
* William D. Richardson (born 1951), Director of the UCL Wolfson Institute since 2012
* William Bebb Richardson (1912–2006), American mammalogist

## Other

* William Anthony Richardson (1795–1856), sea captain and early California entrepreneur
* William Blaney Richardson (1868–1927), American-Nicaraguan naturalist
* W. P. Richardson (trade unionist) (William Pallister Richardson, 1873–1930), British trade unionist
* William R. Richardson (1929–2023), U.S. Army general
* William R. Richardson (Medal of Honor) (1842–1873), Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
* William Richardson (songwriter), Tyneside songwriter
* Will Richardson (educator), author and blogger
* Bill Richardson (journalist) (1909–1986), British newspaper editor
* Bill Richardson (broadcaster) (born 1955), Canadian radio broadcaster and author
* Billy Richardson (Pony Express rider) (1834–1862)