William Harris

William or Will or Willie Harris may refer to:

Politicians and political activists

 * William Harris (born 1504) (1504–?), MP for Newport, Cornwall
 * William Harris (died 1556), MP for Maldon
 * William Harris (MP, died 1709) (c. 1652–1709), English landowner and member of parliament for St Ives, and for Okehampton
 * William Harris (Birmingham Liberal) (1826–1911), Liberal Party politician and strategist, architect, and writer, in Birmingham, England
 * William Harris (civil rights leader) (1867–1931), Australian advocate for Aboriginal rights
 * William Harris (Symbionese Liberation Army), 20th century American militant
 * William Alexander Harris (Kansas politician) (1841–1909), U.S. Representative from Kansas
 * William Alexander Harris (Virginia politician) (1805–1864), U.S. Representative from Virginia
 * William C. Harris (Illinois politician) (1921–2004), American politician
 * William J. Harris (1868–1932), U.S. Senator from Georgia
 * William Littleton Harris (1807–1868), Justice of the Mississippi Court of Errors and Appeals
 * William L. Harris (1923–2013), American politician
 * William James Harris (1835–1911), Conservative Party politician
 * William R. Harris (1803–1858), justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court
 * William Harris (New York politician), American businessman and politician from New York

Sportsmen

 * William Harris (American football) (1965–2014), American football tight end
 * Will Harris (American football), American football cornerback
 * Bill Harris (swimmer) (1897–1961), American swimmer and Olympic bronze medallist
 * William Harris (tennis) (1947–2002), American tennis player
 * William Harris (cricketer, born 1861) (1861–1923), English cricketer
 * William Harris (cricketer, born 1864) (1864–1949), English cricketer
 * William Harris (cricketer, born 1883) (1883–1967), English cricketer
 * William Harris (footballer) (1890–?), Scottish footballer
 * William Harris (rugby union) (1876–1950), New Zealand rugby union player
 * Will Harris (baseball) (born 1984), baseball player
 * Willie Harris (born 1978), baseball player
 * Will Harris (rugby union) (born 2000), Australian rugby union player
 * Will Harris (footballer) (born 2000), English footballer

Academics and religious figures

 * William Harris (Presbyterian minister) (1675?–1740), English divine
 * William Harris (historian) (1720–1770), English dissenting minister and historian
 * William Harris (academic) (1765–1829), president of Columbia University
 * William C. Harris (historian), professor of history at North Carolina State University
 * William Logan Harris (1817–1887), Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
 * William Henry Harris (academic) (1884–1956), Welsh divine, canon and treasurer of St David's Cathedral, and professor of Welsh at St David's College, Lampeter
 * William Stewart Harris (1922–1994), English-born Australian anthropologist, journalist and Aboriginal rights advocate
 * William V. Harris (born 1938), professor of history
 * William Wadé Harris (c. 1860–1929), African evangelist
 * William S. Harris, American professor and researcher on human nutrition

Soldiers

 * William Harris (colonist) (1757–1812), figure in the American Revolution
 * William Harris, 2nd Baron Harris (1782–1845), British soldier and peer
 * William Harris, American Civil War colonel, son of Ira Harris
 * William W. Harris (Medal of Honor) (1850–1878), Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Indian Wars
 * William Frederick Harris (1918–1950), United States Marine Corps officer

Engineers, inventors and scientists

 * William Cornwallis Harris (1807–1848), English military engineer, artist and hunter
 * Sir William Gordon Harris (1912–2005), British civil engineer
 * William Snow Harris (1791–1867), invented a ship-borne lightning rod
 * William Harris, former director general of Science Foundation Ireland

Others

 * Will Harris (poet) (born 1989), British poet
 * William Harris (beachcomber) (c. 1813–1889), British escaped convict and settler in pre-colonial Nauru
 * William Harris (musician) (fl. 1927–1928), American country blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter
 * William Harris (theatrical producer) (1844–1916), American theatre producer and vaudevillian performer
 * William Harris (Tudor person) (1556–1616), English knight, landowner and incorporator in the third Virginia Company of London
 * William Harris (settler) (1610–1681), founding settler of Providence, Rhode Island
 * William Harris, 6th Earl of Malmesbury (1907–2000), British peer
 * Bill Harris (neuroscientist) (born 1950), Canadian-born neuroscientist
 * William Critchlow Harris (1854–1913), Canadian architect
 * William C. Harris (police officer), Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 1856–1881
 * Sir William Henry Harris (1883–1973), English organist and composer
 * William H. Harris (orthopaedic surgeon) (born 1927), American orthopaedic surgeon
 * William Laurel Harris (1870–1924), American muralist and editor
 * William Lewarne Harris (1929–2013), English composer
 * William Torrey Harris (1835–1909), United States Commissioner of Education, American educator, philosopher, lexicographer
 * William Harris Jr. (1884–1946), Broadway theatrical producer
 * William Harris, founder of the Ottawa Citizen newspaper
 * William Bevan Harris, British-American comic actor, better known as Billy Bevan