William Johnson

William Johnson may refer to:

Entertainment

 * Bunk Johnson (William Gary Johnson, 1879–1949), American jazz musician
 * William H. Johnson (artist) (1901–1970), African-American painter of the Harlem Renaissance
 * William Johnson (actor) (1916–1957), American actor
 * William Johnson (organist), English-born organist, composer and organ builder in Sydney, Australia
 * William Manuel Johnson (1872–1972), American jazz musician
 * William L. Johnson, American actor and musician
 * William Allen Johnson (1816–1901), American organ builder, founder of Johnson Organs
 * Zip the Pinhead (William Henry Johnson, 1842–1926), American circus entertainer

Law

 * William Johnson (judge) (1771–1834), Justice of the United States Supreme Court
 * SS William Johnson, a Liberty ship
 * William Johnson (New Hampshire judge) (1930–2009), American state supreme court judge
 * William Tell Johnson (1848–1930), American lawyer and judge from Missouri
 * William John Johnston (1868–1940), Irish barrister and judge
 * William Moore Johnson (1828–1918), Irish barrister and judge
 * William Paul Johnson (born 1959), U.S. federal judge

Military

 * William Johnson, 1st Baronet (1715–1774), Anglo–Irish major general and British Indian agent
 * William Johnson, 4th Baronet (1830–1908), English soldier and aristocrat
 * William Henry Johnson (VC) (1890–1945), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * Henry Johnson (World War I soldier) (William Henry Johnson, 1892–1929), American recipient of the Purple Heart and Medal of Honor
 * William Johnson (Medal of Honor) (1855–1903), American recipient of the Medal of Honor
 * William Johnson (Royal Navy officer) (1784–1851), Scottish naval captain

United States

 * William Johnson (educator) (1895–1981), educator who served as Superintendent of Chicago Public Schools
 * William A. Johnson Jr. (born 1942), mayor of Rochester, New York
 * William A. Johnson (Wisconsin politician) (1922–1977), state legislator from Milwaukee
 * William Cost Johnson (1806–1860), Maryland congressman
 * William Daniel Johnson (born 1954), white nationalist, attorney, and perennial candidate
 * William E. Johnson (Nebraska politician) (1906–1976), lieutenant governor of Nebraska
 * William E. Johnson (prohibitionist) (1862–1945), temperance movement leader
 * William Elting Johnson (1837–1912), New York politician
 * William F. Johnson (1819–?), mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts
 * William H. Johnson (Wisconsin politician), Wisconsin state legislator
 * William Johnson (Seneca County, NY) (1821–1875), New York State Senator and Civil War colonel
 * William M. Johnson (1847–1928), New Jersey state senator
 * William Richard Johnson (1875–1938), Illinois congressman
 * William Samuel Johnson (1727–1819), United States Founding Father
 * William Wallace Johnson (1813–1900), Wisconsin State Assemblyman
 * William Ward Johnson (1892–1963), U.S. Representative from California
 * William Wartenbee Johnson (1826–1887), Ohio politician and judge

United Kingdom

 * William Johnson (MP for Kingston-upon-Hull) (by 1523 – 1553 or later), MP for Kingston–upon–Hull
 * William Johnson (MP for Aldeburgh) (c. 1660–1718), MP for Aldeburgh, and for Orford
 * William Augustus Johnson (1777–1863), English soldier and MP
 * William Cowlishaw Johnson (1862–1943), member of London County Council
 * William Johnson (Liberal-Labour politician) (1849–1919), English coal miner, trade unionist and Liberal–Labour politician
 * William Johnson (trade unionist) (1866–?), English trade union leader and socialist activist
 * William Johnson (MP for Bedford) (by 1513–1558), MP for Bedford and New Woodstock

Other countries

 * William Dartnell Johnson (1870–1948), Labor politician from Western Australia
 * William Johnson (Australian politician) (1871–1916), Australian politician
 * Elliot Johnson (politician) (William Elliot Johnson, 1862–1932), Australian politician
 * William James Johnson (Canadian politician) (1881–1949), Canadian politician in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
 * William Granger Johnson, Fijian businessman and politician
 * Sir William Gillilan Johnson, Irish politician and barrister
 * William Johnson (Irish politician) (1760–1845), Irish politician, law officer and judge

Religion

 * William Johnson (bishop) (1889–1960), Anglican Bishop of Ballarat, Australia
 * William Bullein Johnson (1782–1862), American Baptist minister, first president of the Southern Baptist Convention
 * William Percival Johnson (1854–1928), Anglican missionary, translator of the Bible into Chinyanja
 * William Robert Johnson (1918–1986), American Roman Catholic Bishop of Orange
 * William Johnson (archdeacon) (1642–1698), Anglican priest
 * William R. Johnson (minister) (born 1946), American minister of the United Church of Christ, first openly gay minister to be ordained in a historic Protestant denomination

Science

 * William Johnson (surveyor) (died 1883), British surveyor in India and governor of Ladakh
 * William Arthur Johnson (1816–1880), amateur biologist and clergyman in Canada
 * William Frederick Johnson (1852–1934), Irish naturalist
 * William B. Johnson (mathematician) (born 1944), American mathematician
 * William Brooks Johnson (1763–1830), English physician and botanist
 * William Summer Johnson (1913–1995), American chemist
 * Mike Johnson (technologist) (William Michael Johnson), American pioneer in superscalar microprocessor design
 * Bill Johnson (scientist), FRS (1922 – 2010) British engineer

Sports

 * William Johnson (baseball) (1848–1909), American baseball player
 * William Johnson (cricketer, born 1884) (1884–1941), Australian cricketer
 * William Johnson (cricketer, born 1962), English cricketer
 * William Johnson (handballer) (born 1953), American Olympic handball player
 * William Johnson (rugby league) (1916–1997), rugby league footballer of the 1930s for Wales, and Huddersfield
 * William Johnson (swimmer) (1947–2005), American freestyle swimmer at the 1968 Summer Olympics
 * William Johnson (wrestler) (1901–1928), American wrestler
 * William "Hootie" Johnson (1931–2017), American golfer
 * C. William Johnson (1917–1993), American skeleton racer
 * Judy Johnson (William Julius Johnson, 1899–1989), American baseball player
 * Skinny Johnson (William C. Johnson, 1911–1980), American basketball player

Other professions

 * William Johnson (Canadian author) (1931–2020), Canadian journalist and author
 * William Johnson (barber) (1809–1851), free African American barber and businessman
 * William Johnson (historian) (1909–1992), American journalist, sometimes credited William W. Johnson
 * William Johnson (police officer), English police officer
 * William Andrew Johnson (1858–1943), formerly enslaved American pastry chef
 * William D. Johnson (CEO) (born 1954), American chairman and CEO of Progress Energy
 * William D. Johnson (journalist), American journalist and labor activist
 * William Ernest Johnson (1858–1931), British logician
 * William Henry Johnson (valet) (died 1864), President Abraham Lincoln's barber and valet
 * William Johnson Cory (1823–1892), English educator and Uranian poet
 * William R. Johnson (born 1949), chairman, president, and chief executive officer of the H. J. Heinz Company
 * William Templeton Johnson (1877–1957), San Diego architect
 * William Woolsey Johnson (1841–1927), American mathematician

With middle names

 * William B. Johnson (disambiguation)
 * William Henry Johnson (disambiguation)
 * William R. Johnson (disambiguation)
 * William S. Johnson (disambiguation)

First name variations

 * Billy Johnson (disambiguation)
 * Bill Johnson (disambiguation)
 * Will Johnson (disambiguation)
 * Willie Johnson (disambiguation)

Surname variations

 * William Johnston (disambiguation)
 * William Johnstone (disambiguation)
 * William Jonsson, Canadian politician activist