William Gardner

William or Bill Gardner may refer to:

Sport

 * Bill Gardner (baseball) (1868–1948), American baseball player
 * Bill Gardner (footballer) (1893–1973), English professional footballer
 * Bill Gardner (ice hockey) (born 1960), retired ice hockey player
 * Billy Gardner (born 1927), retired American baseball player
 * William Jennings Gardner (1884–1965), American football player and member of Eliot Ness's "Untouchables"
 * Bill Gardner (football hooligan) (born 1954), English football supporter, former football hooligan and co-author of books on football hooliganism

Military

 * William Linnæus Gardner (1771–1835), Indian officer
 * William M. Gardner (1824–1901), Confederate States Army brigadier general
 * William Gardner (sailor) (1832–?), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
 * William Gardner (VC) (1821–1897), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross

Others

 * William Gardner (Australian settler) (1802–1860), pioneer and historian
 * William Gardner (coin designer) (1914–2000), English coin designer, engraver, calligrapher and writer
 * William Gardner (former slave) (1759–unknown), freedman who had been a slave of U.S. President James Madison
 * William Gardner (surgeon) (1846–1897), practised in South Australia and Victoria
 * William E. Gardner Jr. (1939–1991), president of Savannah State College
 * William Biscombe Gardner (1847–1919), English painter and wood-engraver
 * William James Gardner (1825–1874), British missionary in Jamaica
 * Bill Gardner (author), American author
 * Bill Gardner (politician) (born 1948), secretary of state for New Hampshire
 * Willie Gardner, Scottish rock musician
 * William Gardner, pseudonym of Peter Hope
 * William Gardner (Massachusetts judge) (1827–1888), justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court