William Forbes

Billy, Willie or William Forbes may refer to:

Financiers

 * Sir William Forbes, 6th Baronet (1739–1806), Scottish banker
 * William Forbes of Callendar (1756–1823), Scottish coppersmith and landowner
 * William Howell Forbes (1837–1896), American businessman in Hong Kong
 * William Hathaway Forbes (1840–1897), American investor in company owned by Alexander Graham Bell

Footballers

 * Billy Forbes (Scottish footballer) (before 1895–after 1928), right back who also played in Massachusetts
 * Willie Forbes (1922–1999), Scottish wing half
 * Billy Forbes (footballer, born 1990), Turks and Caicos Islands striker

Public officials

 * William Forbes (Lower Canada politician) (1787–1814), merchant and legislator
 * William Forbes (MP) (1806–1855), Scottish MP for Stirlingshire
 * William Henry Forbes (1815–1875), American fur trader and territorial legislator
 * William Cameron Forbes (1870–1959), American diplomat and investment banker
 * William Forbes (Talamancan king), King of Talamanca, Costa Rica between 1872–1880.

Scholars

 * William Forbes (bishop) (1585–1634), Scottish churchman, first Bishop of Edinburgh
 * William S. Forbes (1831–1905), American physician
 * William Alexander Forbes (1855–1883), English zoologist
 * William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes (1885–1968), American entomologist

Others

 * William Nairn Forbes (1796–1855), British military engineer
 * William Forbes (railway manager) (1856–1936), British railway manager
 * William E. Forbes (1906–1999), member of the University of California Board of Regents