William White

William White may refer to:

Politics

 * William White (MP for City of London), for City of London (Parliament of England constituency)
 * William White (MP for Lymington) (died 1594), MP for Lymington
 * William White (MP for Clitheroe) (1606–1661), MP for Clitheroe in 1660
 * William White (Secretary of State) (1762–1811), North Carolina Secretary of State, 1798–1811
 * William Duckett White (1807–1893), member of the Queensland Legislative Council
 * William White (Maryland politician) (1824–1885), American politician from Maryland
 * Sir William Arthur White (1824–1891), British diplomat
 * William White (New Zealand politician) (1849–1900), New Zealand Member of Parliament
 * William J. White (politician) (1850–1923), United States Representative from Ohio
 * William Pūnohu White (1851–1925), Hawaiian politician
 * William White (Canadian politician) (1856–1953), elected member of the 1st Council of the Northwest Territories, 1883–1885
 * Sir William Thomas White (1866–1955), Canadian politician and Cabinet minister
 * William Henry White (politician) (1865–1930), Canadian Member of Parliament from Alberta
 * William P. White (mayor) (died 1938), mayor of Lawrence, Massachusetts

Judges

 * William White (Ohio judge) (1822–1883), Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio and Ohio Supreme Court judge
 * William H. White (judge) (1842–1914), justice of the Washington Supreme Court
 * William Sylvester White (1914–2004), American judge and member of the Golden Thirteen

Religion

 * William White (bishop of Pennsylvania) (1748–1836), Episcopal bishop in America, Presiding Bishop and Chaplain of Congress
 * William C. White (1854–1937), son of Seventh-day Adventist Church founder Ellen G. White
 * William White (bishop of Newfoundland) (1865–1943), Anglican bishop in Canada
 * William White (bishop of Honan) (1873–1960), Anglican bishop in China
 * William White (bishop of the Southeast) (born 1947), Reformed Episcopal Church bishop in South Carolina
 * William A. White (1874–1936), American-Canadian Baptist minister, and only Black military chaplain in the British Empire during World War I
 * William J. White (journalist) (1831–1913), African-American civil rights leader, journalist (editor of the Georgia Baptist), educator, and minister in Augusta, Georgia
 * William White (priest), Anglican priest in Ireland in the late 18th and early 19th centuries
 * William White (missionary), missionary for the Wesleyan Church in New Zealand

Sports

 * William White (footballer) (born 1995), Bermudan footballer
 * William Edward White (1860–1937), American baseball first baseman, possibly the first African-American to play major league baseball
 * Will White (1854–1911), American baseball pitcher and manager
 * William White (field hockey) (1920–1990), Scottish sportsman who played cricket and field hockey
 * William White (British Army officer) (1879–1951), English cricketer
 * William White (American football) (1966–2022), American football player
 * Will White (American football), American football player
 * William White (Guyanese cricketer) (born 1953), Guyanese cricketer
 * William White (sport shooter) (1912–2011), British Olympic shooter
 * William C. White (American football) (1896–1986), American football coach
 * William Deacon White (1878–1939), American educator and sports promoter in Edmonton, Alberta

Music, media, and writers

 * William White (composer) (1571–c. 1634), English composer
 * William White (printer) (before 1577–1618), based in London, printed the first quarto of Shakespeare's Love's Labors Lost (1598) for publisher Cuthbert Burby
 * William White (publisher) (1799–1868), publisher of White's Directories in the 19th century
 * William White (journalist) (1807–1882), British pamphleteer and parliamentary sketch writer
 * William Allen White (1868–1944), American newspaper editor
 * William Lindsay White (1900–1973), American journalist
 * William Chapman White (1903–1955), American journalist
 * William S. White (1905–1994), American journalist and biographer
 * William White (academic) (1910–1995), American academic of journalism and bibliographer
 * William Anthony Parker White (1911–1968), better known by his pen name Anthony Boucher, American author, critic, and editor
 * William White (actor) (1921–1985), film producer and actor
 * William H. White (publisher) (c. 1925–1989), American author, editor and publisher
 * William H. White (maritime writer), American naval historical novelist
 * William White, one of the pseudonyms of Finnish singer Irwin Goodman (1943–1991)

Military

 * William Allison White (1894–1974), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * Sir William Henry White (1845–1913), British warship designer
 * William J. White (general) (1925–2017), American general
 * William White (conscientious objector), Australian conscientious objector during the Vietnam War
 * William R. White (United States Army officer), U.S. Army general
 * William Sylvester White (1914–2004), American judge and member of the Golden Thirteen

Architecture

 * William White (architect) (1825–1900), English architect
 * William H. White (architect) (1838–1896), British architect

Science and medicine

 * William Alanson White (1870–1937), American neurologist and alienist
 * William Comings White (1890–1965), engineer, General Electric, Schenectady, NY
 * William E. White, American neurologist and author
 * J. William White (1850–1916), US surgeon
 * William L. White (born 1947), writer on addiction recovery and policy
 * William Toby White, Australian ichthyologist

Others

 * William White (economist) (born 1943), Canadian economist
 * William White (gangster) (1900–1934), Prohibition gangster and Chicago Outfit gunman
 * William White (Mayflower passenger) (c. 1580–1621)
 * William White (master), English academic, master of Balliol College, Oxford
 * William R. White (academic administrator) (1892–1977), president of Hardin-Simmons University, and of Baylor University
 * William Hale White (1831–1913), English writer and civil servant
 * Larry Grayson (1923–1995), English stand-up comedy and gameshow host, born William White