# William Jackson

William Jackson may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

* William Jackson (organist born 1730) (1730–1803), referred to as Jackson of Exeter, English organist and composer
* William Jackson of Masham (1815–1866), English organist and composer
* William Henry Jackson (1843–1942), early photographer of the American West
* William Jackson (Scottish composer) (born 1955), Scottish composer
* William F. Jackson (1850–1936), American painter and art curator

## Business

* William Jackson (born 1963), British businessman and philanthropist, founder of Bridgepoint Group
* William Jackson Food Group, food manufacturer in the United Kingdom

## Military

* William Jackson (pirate) (fl. 1639–1645), British pirate
* William Lowther Jackson (1825–1890), American Confederate general
* William Hicks Jackson (1835–1903), American Confederate general
* William Payne Jackson (1868–1945), U.S. Army general
* William Jackson (Australian soldier) (1897–1959), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
* Sir William Jackson (British Army officer) (1917–1999), British general, Governor of Gibraltar, military historian, and author
* William Francis Jackson (1886–1964), British Army officer

## Politics and law
### U.K.

* William Jackson (fl. 1601–1604), MP for Guildford and Haslemere
* Sir William Jackson, 1st Baronet (1805–1876), British MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme and Derbyshire North
* William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton (1840–1917), English politician, Member of Parliament for Leeds
* William Jackson, 1st Baron Jackson (1893–1954), Member of Parliament for Brecon and Radnorshire, 1939–1945

### U.S.

* William Jackson (secretary) (1759–1828), Secretary to the Philadelphia Convention and member of the U.S. Continental Army
* William Jackson (Massachusetts politician, born 1783) (1783–1855), US Congressman from Massachusetts
* William Terry Jackson (1794–1882), U.S. Representative from New York
* William Jackson (Saugus, Massachusetts), English-American pottery manufacturer and politician of the 1820s
* William A. Jackson, Black dispatches spy during the American Civil War
* William Humphreys Jackson (1839–1915), congressman from Maryland
* William Purnell Jackson (1868–1939), member of the United States Senate from Maryland
* William S. Jackson (died 1932), New York State Attorney General, 1907–1908
* William T. Jackson (Ohio politician) (1876–1933), mayor of Toledo, Ohio
* William Harding Jackson (1901–1971), United States National Security Advisor
* William M. Jackson (judge) (born 1953), associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia

### Other political figures

* William Jackson (New Zealand politician) (1832–1889), New Zealand politician
* William Jackson (Canadian politician) (1858–1938), Canadian Member of Parliament
* William Jackson (Canadian administrator)

## Religion

* William Jackson (journalist) (1737–1795), Irish preacher, journalist, playwright, radical, and spy
* William Jackson (bishop) (1751–1815), bishop of Oxford
* William Jackson (Archdeacon of Carlisle) (1792–1878), priest and academic
* William Jackson (Dean of Killala) (died 1885), Anglican priest in Ireland
* William Walrond Jackson (1811–1895), Bishop of Antigua 1860–1879
* William Jackson (Archdeacon of Killala) (died 1903)
* William Jackson (priest) (1838–1931), Rector of Exeter College, Oxford
* Ernest Jackson (priest) (William Ernest Jackson), 20th century Canadian Anglican priest
* William Henry Jackson (priest) (1889–1931), Anglican priest, missionary, and inventor of Burmese Braille

## Science and medicine

* William Jackson (engineer) (1848–1910), Boston, Massachusetts city engineer, 1885–1910
* William Jackson (inventor) (1849–1915), Scottish mechanical engineer
* William Elvin Jackson (1904–1972), American aviation electronics engineer
* William M. Jackson (chemist) (born 1936), American researcher

## Sports

* William Jackson (curler) (1871–1955), Scottish winner of the first Olympic gold medal in curling, Chamonix, 1924
* William Jackson (footballer) (1876–1954), Newton Heath F.C., Burnley F.C. and Wales international footballer
* Bill Jackson (first baseman) (William Riley Jackson, 1881–1958), American first baseman for the Chicago Whales
* William Jackson (pitcher) (fl. 1890–1906), American pitcher and outfielder for early minor leagues and Negro leagues
* William Jackson III (born 1992), American football player

## Others

* William Jackson (Boston loyalist) (1731–1810), American Revolutionary era loyalist
* William Jackson (gangster) (1901–1961), American loan shark, enforcer and murder victim
* William K. Jackson (1913–2003), American architect, co-founder of KBJ Architects
* William Turrentine Jackson (1915–2000), American professor of history
* William Perry Jackson (born 1955), American serial killer