William Gordon

William Gordon may refer to:

• 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) (1801–1849), physician and Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
• William Gordon (Royal Navy officer, born 1705) (1705–1769), became Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1762
• William Gordon (Royal Navy officer, born 1784) (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 (Rochester MP) (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
• Sir William Gordon (diplomat) (1726–1798), British diplomat and politician, MP for Portsmouth
• William Thomas Gordon (1884–1950), British palaeontologist and palaeobotanist

• 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
• 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
• William Osceola Gordon (1837–1914), American judge
• William Washington Gordon II (1834–1912), Confederate officer, later a U.S. Army general
• William D. Gordon (actor) (1918–1991), American actor, writer and director

• 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