# William Clarke

William or Bill Clarke may refer to:

## Entertainment

* William Hanna Clarke (1882–1924), dentist, then an artist, from Glasgow, Scotland
* William Clarke (musician) (1951–1996), blues harmonica player
* Will Clarke (novelist) (born 1970), American novelist
* William Clarke, a.k.a. Bunny Rugs, lead singer for the band Third World

## Politics

* William Clarke (MP for Amersham) (c. 1575–1626), English MP for Amersham
* William Clarke (English politician) (c. 1623–1666), English politician and Secretary to the Council of the Army
* William Clarke (mayor), American mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, 1869
* William Clarke (Australian politician) (1843–1903), Australian businessman and parliamentarian
* William Clarke (Fabian) (1852–1901), English socialist activist
* William Aurelius Clarke (1868–1940), Canadian politician in Ontario
* William Alexander Clarke, a.k.a. Alexander Bustamante (1884–1977), first prime minister of Jamaica
* Bill Clarke (politician) (born 1933), Canadian MP for Vancouver Quadra, 1973–1984

## Sports
### Football

* William Clarke (footballer, fl. 1897–1900), English football forward with Lincoln City in the late 1890s
* William Clarke (footballer, born 1909) (1909–?), for Bradford City
* Bill Clarke (Australian footballer) (1882–1945), Australian rules footballer
* Bill Clarke (Canadian football) (1932–2000), Canadian football defensive lineman
* Bill Clarke (football manager), English Carlisle United F.C. manager, 1933–1935
* Bill Clarke (footballer, born 1880) (1880–?), English footballer with Sheffield United, Northampton Town and Southampton
* Bill Clarke (footballer, born 1916) (1916–1986), English footballer with Leicester City, Exeter and Southampton
* Willie Clarke (footballer) (1878–1940), Scottish footballer
* Billy Clarke (footballer, born 1987), Irish footballer

### Cricket

* William Clarke (cricketer, born 1798) (1798–1856), English cricketer and team manager
* William Grasett Clarke (1821–1893), English cricketer
* William Clarke (Barbadian cricketer) (1841–1907), Barbadian cricketer
* William Clarke (cricketer, born 1846) (1846–1902), English cricketer
* William Clarke (cricketer, born 1849) (1849–1935), English cricketer

### Other sports

* Boileryard Clarke (William Jones Clarke, 1868–1959), American Major League Baseball player
* William Clarke (athlete) (1873–?), British Olympic runner
* Will Clarke (cyclist) (born 1985), Australian road cyclist
* Will Clarke (triathlete) (born 1985), British triathlete
* Bill Clarke (died 2018), British professional wrestler, best known as the masked King Kendo

## Science

* William Clarke (apothecary) (1609–1682), English apothecary associated with Isaac Newton
* William Branwhite Clarke (1798–1878), English geologist and clergyman, active in Australia
* William Barnard Clarke (1806–1865), English architect, cartographer and translator
* William Barnard Clarke (physician) (1807–1894), English physician and curator
* William Eagle Clarke (1853–1938), British ornithologist
* William Clarke (Canadian physician) (died 1887), Irish-born physician and politician in Ontario, Canada

## Other people

* William Clarke (justice) (died c. 1706), Delaware justice, chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
* William Clarke (antiquary) (1696–1771), English cleric and antiquary
* William Clarke (industrialist) (1831–1890), English industrialist, co-founder of Clarke Chapman
* Sir William Clarke, 1st Baronet (1831–1897), Australian businessman
* William Clarke (cryptographer) (1883–1961), British British intelligence officer and cryptographer
* William Francis Clarke (1816–1890), American Jesuit educator
* William P.O. Clarke (1893–1949), U.S. Navy admiral during World War II
* William Robinson Clarke (1895–1981), British World War I pilot who was the first black pilot to fly for Britain
* William Clarke (United Kingdom railway contractor), designer of British railway stations, see Portesham railway station

## Other uses

* William Clarke & Son, a tobacco company founded in 1830 in Cork, Ireland
* William Clarke Estate, a historic home in Orange Park, Florida
* William Clarke College, an Anglican co-educational high school in Kellyville, New South Wales, Australia