William Johnson

William Johnson may refer to:

Entertainment

• Bunk Johnson (William Gary Johnson, 1879–1949), American jazz musician
• William Johnson (artist) (1901–1970), African–American painter of the Harlem Renaissance
• William Johnson (actor) (1916–1957), American actor
• William Manuel Johnson (1872–1972), American jazz musician
• William L. Johnson, American actor and musician
• William Allen Johnson (1816–1901), organ builder, Johnson Organs
• Zip the Pinhead (William Henry Johnson, 1842–1926), circus entertainer

Law

• William Johnson (judge) (1771–1834), Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• William Moore Johnson (1828–1918), Irish barrister and judge
• William Paul Johnson (born 1959), U.S. federal judge

Military

• Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (1715–1774), Anglo–Irish major general and Indian agent during the French and Indian War
• William Henry Johnson (VC) (1890–1945), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
• William Johnson (Medal of Honor) (1855–1903), American recipient of the Medal of Honor
• William Johnson (Royal Navy officer) (1784–1851), Scottish Naval Captain

Politics

U.S.

• William A. Johnson Jr. (born 1942), mayor of Rochester, New York
• William Cost Johnson (1806–1860), Maryland Congressman
• William Daniel Johnson (born 1954), American white nationalist, attorney, and perennial candidate
• William E. Johnson (Nebraska), Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska
• William E. Johnson (1862–1945), American temperance movement leader
• William Elting Johnson (1837–1912), New York politician
• William F. Johnson (1819–?), mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts
• 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

U.K.

• William Johnson (by 1523 – 1553 or later), MP for Kingston–upon–Hull
• William Augustus Johnson (1777–1863), English soldier and MP
• 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

Australia and Canada

• 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

Religion

• William Johnson (bishop) (1889–1960), Anglican Bishop of Ballarat, Australia
• William Bullein Johnson (1782–1862), 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

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 Brooks Johnson (1763–1830), English physician and botanist
• William Summer Johnson (1913–1995), American chemist
• Mike Johnson (technologist) (William Michael Johnson), pioneer in superscalar microprocessor design

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), 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 uses

• William Johnson (author) (born 1931), Canadian journalist and author
• William Johnson (barber) (1809–1851), successful free African American barber
• William Johnson (historian) (1909–1992), American journalist, sometimes credited Willliam W. Johnson
• William Johnson (police officer), English police officer
• William B. Johnson (mathematician) (born 1944), American mathematician
• 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
• William R. Johnson Coliseum, an arena in Nacogdoches, Texas