William Gordon may refer to:
British people
- William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen (1679–1746), Scottish peer, Tory politician and Jacobite
- William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure (c. 1672–1716), Scottish Jacobite
- William Gordon, Lord Strathnaver (1683–1720), MP for Tain Burghs, judged ineligible to sit because he was the eldest son of a Scottish peer
- William Gordon (Bishop of Aberdeen) (died 1577), last of the pre-Reformation bishops of Aberdeen owing allegiance to the Roman Catholic Church
- William Gordon (bishop of Leeds) (1831–1911), English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
- William Gordon (physician) (1800–1849), physician and Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
- William Gordon (Royal Navy officer) (1705–1769), became Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1762
- William Gordon (Royal Navy officer) (1784–1858), Scottish vice-admiral, naval commander and politician
- William Eagleson Gordon (1866–1941), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William Gordon (British Army officer) (1736–1816), British general and politician
- William Gordon (Chelsea MP) (1818–1894), British Member of Parliament for Chelsea, 1874–1880
- Lord William Gordon (1744–1823), MP for Elginshire, Inverness-shire, and Horsham
- Sir William Gordon, 1st Baronet, MP for Sutherland, Cromartyshire and Nairnshire
- William Gordon (Portsmouth politician) (1726–1798), MP for Portsmouth
- William Gordon (died 1776) (c. 1735–1776), MP for Rochester
- Sir William Duff-Gordon, 2nd Baronet (1772–1823), known as William Gordon until 1815, Scottish politician
- William McD. Gordon (1899–1950), Provost of Peterhead, 1946–1950
American people
- William Gordon (New Hampshire politician) (1763–1802), United States Representative from New Hampshire
- William Gordon (Ohio politician) (1862–1942), U.S. Representative from Ohio
- William E. Gordon (1918–2010), physicist and astronomer, "father of the Arecibo Observatory"
- William F. Gordon (1787–1858), U.S. Representative from Virginia
- William Washington Gordon (1796–1842), American politician and railroad executive, founder Central of Georgia Railroad and grandfather of Juliette Gordon Low
- William Gordon (Bishop of Alaska) (1918–1994), bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska, 1948–1974
- William J. J. Gordon (1919–2003), inventor and psychologist
- William D. Gordon (1858–1917), politician and attorney from Michigan
Others
- George William Gordon (1820–1865), Jamaican politician
- William James Gordon (1864–1922), West Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William Gordon (Australian politician) (1862–1943), Australian politician
- William Deuchar Gordon (1871–1951), Australian pastoralist
- Billy Gordon, Australian politician