# William Ward

William Ward or Willie Ward or Will Ward may refer to:

## Sports

* William Ward (American football) (1874–1936), American football coach at the University of Michigan in 1896
* William Ward (Australian cricketer) (1863–1948), Australian cricketer
* William Ward (cricketer, born 1787) (1787–1849), English cricketer, scorer of the first-ever double-century
* William Ward (cricketer, born 1874) (1874–1961), English cricketer
* William Ward (tennis) (born 1986), New Zealand tennis player
* Willie Ward (1909–1987), American baseball player
* Billy Ward (rugby league) (1888–?), rugby league footballer of the 1910s for Great Britain, England, and Leeds
* William Ward (1893–1968), American boxer who fought under the name Kid Norfolk

## Military

* William Ward (Royal Navy officer) (1829–1900)
* William Ward (Texas soldier) (died 1836), American lieutenant-colonel during the Texas Revolution
* William E. Ward (born 1949), American general officer of the United States Army; inaugural combatant commander of United States Africa Command
* William F. Ward Jr. (1928–2018), United States Army general
* William H. Ward (1840–1927), American army officer and Medal of Honor recipient
* William Thomas Ward (1808–1878), American army general and congressman from Kentucky

## Politics

* William Ward (1677–1720), Member of Parliament for Staffordshire, 1710–1713 and 1715–1720
* William Ward (mayor) (1807–1889), English Mayor of Oxford
* William Ward (MP for Morpeth) (fl. 1553–63), MP for Morpeth, and for Carlisle
* William Ward (Pennsylvania politician) (1837–1895), American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
* William Ward (police officer) (1921–2006), Pittsburgh Police Chief in 1986
* William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley (1867–1932), British politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Governor-General of Australia
* William Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley (1894–1969), British Conservative politician
* William Ward, 3rd Viscount Dudley and Ward (1750–1823), British peer and politician
* William Ward Jr. (1865–1949), American politician from Pennsylvania
* William D. Ward, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives
* William Dudley Ward (1877–1946), British Liberal politician and Olympic sailor
* William F. Ward (born 1951), American lawyer and politician (Pennsylvania)
* William John Ward (1880–1971), Canadian farmer and politician in Manitoba
* William L. Ward (1856–1933), American politician, US Representative from New York
* William T. Ward (Wisconsin legislator), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for 1850
* William W. Ward (1903–?), American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly

## Religion

* William Ward (bishop) (1761–1838), Anglican clergyman and the Bishop of Sodor and Man
* William Ward (missionary) (1769–1823), British pioneer, Baptist missionary
* William Ward (priest) (c. 1560–1641), English Roman Catholic martyr
* William George Ward (1812–1882), English Roman Catholic theologian and mathematician
* William Hayes Ward (1835–1916), American clergyman, editor, and Orientalist
* William Humble Ward, 10th Baron Ward (1781–1835), clergyman

## Other fields

* William Ward (astronomer) (1944–2018), American astronomer
* William Ward (engraver) (1766–1826), English engraver
* William Ward (frontiersman) (1752–1822), frontiersman, early settler of western Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio
* William Ward (goldsmith), English goldsmith and financier
* William Ward (physician) (1534–1604?), English physician and translator
* William Ward (Utah architect) (1827–1893), architect in Utah
* William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (1817–1885), British peer and benefactor
* William Ward, 4th Earl of Dudley (1920–2013), British peer
* William Ward, 10th Baron Dudley (1685–1740)
* William Arthur Ward (1921–1994), American motivational writer
* William Ayres Ward (1928–1996), American Egyptologist
* William Erskine Ward (1838–1916), British Indian Civil Service officer
* William Henry Ward, American inventor
* W. R. Ward (William Reginald Ward, 1925–2010), English historian