William Davies

William, Will, Bill, or Billy Davies may refer to:

Sportspeople

 * William Davies (English cricketer) (fl. 1844)
 * William Davies (cricketer, born 1825) (1825–1868), English cricketer and clergyman
 * William Davies (footballer, born 1854) (1854–1916), Oswestry F.C. and Wales international footballer
 * William Davies (sport shooter) (1881–1942), Canadian Olympic sports shooter
 * William Davies (footballer, born 1882) (1882–1966), Wrexham F.C., Blackburn Rovers F.C. and Wales international footballer
 * Bill L. Davies (1883–1959), Australian rules footballer
 * Billy Davies (Welsh footballer) (1883–1960), Crystal Palace F.C., West Bromwich Albion F.C. and Wales international footballer
 * William Davies (footballer, born 1873) (1873–1929), English footballer for Bolton Wanderers
 * William Davies (footballer, born 1884) (1884–1954), footballer for Stoke
 * William Davies (rugby) (1890–1967), Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1910s and 1920s
 * Bill Davies (golfer) (1892–1967), English Ryder Cup golfer
 * Will Davies (rugby) (fl. 1910s), rugby league footballer for Great Britain, Wales and Halifax
 * Willie Davies (footballer) (1900–1953), Swansea Town F.C., Cardiff City F.C., Notts County F.C.,Tottenham Hotspur F.C. and Wales international footballer
 * Bill Davies (cricketer, born 1901) (1901–?), Welsh cricketer
 * Will Davies (rugby union) (1906–1975), Wales international rugby union player
 * Bill Davies (cricketer, born 1906) (1906–1971), Welsh cricketer
 * Taffy Davies (William Davies, 1910–1995), Welsh footballer with Watford
 * Billy Davies (Welsh rugby) (William H. J. Davies, fl. 1930s), rugby union and rugby league footballer
 * Bill Davies (Canadian football) (1916–1990), Canadian football player
 * Willie Davies (1916–2002), Welsh dual-code rugby footballer
 * Bill Davies (rugby league) (fl. 1940s), rugby league footballer for Wales, and Huddersfield
 * Bill Davies (footballer) (1930–2003), Australian footballer
 * William Davies (wrestler) (1931–2020), Australian Olympic wrestler
 * Billy Davies (cricketer, born 1936), Welsh former cricketer
 * Tony Davies (William Anthony Davies, 1939–2008), New Zealand rugby union footballer
 * Billy Davies (rugby league, born 1948) (William Davies), English rugby league footballer
 * Dai Davies (footballer, born 1948) (William David Davies, 1948–2021), Welsh goalkeeper
 * Billy Davies (born 1964), Scottish footballer and manager
 * William Davies (cricketer, born 1972), English cricketer

Politicians

 * William Davies (Georgia judge) (1775–1829), Georgia-based politician and lawyer
 * William Davies (Pembrokeshire MP) (1821–1895), British Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire, 1880–1892
 * William Davies (New South Wales politician) (1824–1890)
 * William T. Davies (1831–1912), lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, United States, 1887–1891
 * Sir William Howell Davies (politician) (1851–1932), British Member of Parliament for Bristol South, 1906–1922
 * William Thomas Frederick Davies (1860–1947), South African surgeon, army officer and politician
 * William Rees-Davies (judge) (William Rees Morgan Davies, 1863–1939), British Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire, 1892–1898
 * Rupert Davies (politician) (William Rupert Davies, 1879–1967), Canadian author, newspaper publisher and Senator
 * Billy Davies (politician) (1884–1956), Welsh-born Australian member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and the Australian Parliament
 * William Gwynne Davies (1916–1999), trade unionist and politician in Saskatchewan, Canada

Other people

 * William Davies (priest) (died 1593), Welsh Roman Catholic priest and martyr
 * William Davies (highwayman) (died 1689), known as the Golden Farmer and hanged in Surrey, England
 * William Davies (actor) (1751–1809), English actor
 * William Davies (Virginia) (fl. 1770s), Continental Army officer in the American Revolutionary War
 * William Davies (died 1819), English publisher with Cadell & Davies
 * William Davies (palaeontologist) (1814–1891), British palaeontologist
 * William Edmund Davies (1819–1879), bookmaker
 * William Broughton Davies (1831–1906), Sierra Leonean medical doctor
 * William Henry Davies (entrepreneur) (1831–1921), Canadian pork packer
 * William W. Davies (1833–1906), leader of a schismatic Latter Day Saint group in Washington, United States
 * William Davies (master mariner) (1862–1936), sea captain and partner in Davies and Newman
 * W. H. Davies (William Henry Davies, 1871–1940), Welsh poet
 * William Llewelyn Davies (1887–1952), chief librarian of the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
 * William David Davies (1897–1969), Welsh Presbyterian minister and theologian
 * William J. Davies (fl. 1900–1927), Welsh trade union leader
 * William W. Davies (USMC) (1900–1985), United States Marine Corps general
 * Sir William Arthian Davies (1901–1979), British lawyer and judge
 * William Edward Davies (1917–1990), American geologist and caver
 * William H. Davies (1931–2017), justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia
 * William Davies (psychologist) (born 1950), British psychologist
 * William Davies (screenwriter) (fl. 1980s–2010s), British-born American screenwriter
 * William Davies (political writer) (born 1976), English writer, political and sociological theorist
 * William Davies (barber-surgeon), English barber-surgeon and traveller
 * Bill Davies (died 2016), English real estate developer, owner of Old Chicago Main Post Office

Characters

 * Will Davies (Hollyoaks), a character on Hollyoaks
 * Billy Davies (River City), a character on River City

Other uses

 * William Davies Company, former Canadian pork packing firm