Bill French (footballer)

William Thomas Hunter French (20 April 1884 – 17 October 1972) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

A carpenter by trade, French enlisted to serve in World War I in April 1915. The night after joining the 7th Battalion at Gallipoli, French suffered a crushed back and concussion in heavy fighting at Lone Pine and was returned to Australia three months later.