William Ward

William Ward or Willie Ward or Will Ward may refer to:

Sports

 * William Ward (American football) (1874–1936), American football coach at the University of Michigan in 1896
 * William Ward (Australian cricketer) (1863–1948), Australian cricketer
 * William Ward (cricketer, born 1787) (1787–1849), English cricketer, scorer of the first-ever double-century
 * William Ward (cricketer, born 1874) (1874–1961), English cricketer
 * William Ward (tennis) (born 1986), New Zealand tennis player
 * Willie Ward (1909–1987), American baseball player
 * Billy Ward (rugby league) (1888–?), rugby league footballer of the 1910s for Great Britain, England, and Leeds
 * William Ward (1893–1968), American boxer who fought under the name Kid Norfolk

Military

 * William Ward (Royal Navy officer) (1829–1900)
 * William Ward (Texas soldier) (died 1836), American lieutenant-colonel during the Texas Revolution
 * William E. Ward (born 1949), American general officer of the United States Army; inaugural combatant commander of United States Africa Command
 * William F. Ward Jr. (1928–2018), United States Army general
 * William H. Ward (1840–1927), American army officer and Medal of Honor recipient
 * William Thomas Ward (1808–1878), American army general and congressman from Kentucky

Politics

 * William Ward (1677–1720), Member of Parliament for Staffordshire, 1710–1713 and 1715–1720
 * William Ward (mayor) (1807–1889), English Mayor of Oxford
 * William Ward (MP for Morpeth) (fl. 1553–63), MP for Morpeth, and for Carlisle
 * William Ward (Pennsylvania politician) (1837–1895), American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
 * William Ward (police officer) (1921–2006), Pittsburgh Police Chief in 1986
 * William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley (1867–1932), British politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Governor-General of Australia
 * William Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley (1894–1969), British Conservative politician
 * William Ward, 3rd Viscount Dudley and Ward (1750–1823), British peer and politician
 * William Ward Jr. (1865–1949), American politician from Pennsylvania
 * William D. Ward, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives
 * William Dudley Ward (1877–1946), British Liberal politician and Olympic sailor
 * William F. Ward (born 1951), American lawyer and politician (Pennsylvania)
 * William John Ward (1880–1971), Canadian farmer and politician in Manitoba
 * William L. Ward (1856–1933), American politician, US Representative from New York
 * William T. Ward (Wisconsin legislator), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for 1850
 * William W. Ward (1903–?), American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly

Religion

 * William Ward (bishop) (1761–1838), Anglican clergyman and the Bishop of Sodor and Man
 * William Ward (missionary) (1769–1823), British pioneer, Baptist missionary
 * William Ward (priest) (c. 1560–1641), English Roman Catholic martyr
 * William George Ward (1812–1882), English Roman Catholic theologian and mathematician
 * William Hayes Ward (1835–1916), American clergyman, editor, and Orientalist
 * William Humble Ward, 10th Baron Ward (1781–1835), clergyman

Other fields

 * William Ward (astronomer) (1944–2018), American astronomer
 * William Ward (engraver) (1766–1826), English engraver
 * William Ward (frontiersman) (1752–1822), frontiersman, early settler of western Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio
 * William Ward (goldsmith), English goldsmith and financier
 * William Ward (physician) (1534–1604?), English physician and translator
 * William Ward (Utah architect) (1827–1893), architect in Utah
 * William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (1817–1885), British peer and benefactor
 * William Ward, 4th Earl of Dudley (1920–2013), British peer
 * William Ward, 10th Baron Dudley (1685–1740)
 * William Arthur Ward (1921–1994), American motivational writer
 * William Ayres Ward (1928–1996), American Egyptologist
 * William Erskine Ward (1838–1916), British Indian Civil Service officer
 * William Henry Ward, American inventor
 * W. R. Ward (William Reginald Ward, 1925–2010), English historian