William White

William White may refer to:

• William White (MP for Lymington) (died 1594), MP for Lymington
• William White (MP) (1606–1661), MP for Clitheroe in 1660
• William White (Secretary of State) (1762–1811), North Carolina Secretary of State, 1798–1811
• William White (Canadian politician), elected member of the 1st Council of the Northwest Territories, 1883–1885
• Sir William Arthur White (1824–1891), British diplomat
• William J. White (1850–1923), United States Representative from Ohio
• William Pūnohu White (1859–1925), Hawaiian politician
• Sir William Thomas White (1866–1955), Canadian politician and Cabinet minister
• Bill White (Canadian politician) (1915–1981), first Black Canadian to run for provincial or federal political office in Canada
• Bill White (Texas politician) (born 1954), former mayor of the city of Houston (Texas, USA) and a candidate for the Texas gubernatorial election in 2010
• William Henry White (politician) (1865–1930), Canadian Member of Parliament from Alberta
• William White (New Zealand politician) (1849–1900), New Zealand Member of Parliament
• William White (jurist) (1822–1883), Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio and Ohio Supreme Court judge

• 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 A. White (1874–1936), American-Canadian Baptist minister, and only Black military chaplain in the British Empire during World War I

• William Edward White (1860–?), American baseball player, possibly the first African-American to play major league baseball
• William White (boxer), British boxer and Olympic competitor, see Boxing at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's lightweight
• 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) (born 1966), American football player
• William White (sport shooter) (born 1912), British Olympic shooter
• William White (athlete) (born 1994), Australian javelin thrower
• Will White (1854–1911), American baseball player

• 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 (composer) (1571–c. 1634), English composer
• William White (journalist) (1807-1882), British pamphleteer and parliamentary sketch writer
• William White (Sheffield, England), publisher of White's Directories in the 19th century
• William Allen White (1868–1944), American newspaper editor
• William Chapman White (1903–1955), American journalist
• William H. White (maritime writer), American naval historical novelist
• William Lindsay White (1900–1973), American journalist
• William S. White, American journalist and author of Citadel, a seminal text about the United States Senate

• Sir William Arthur White (1824–1891), British diplomat
• William Hale White (1831–1913), English writer and civil servant

• William Allison White (1894–1974), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Sir William Henry White (1845–1913), British warship designer
• William White (conscientious objector), Australian conscientious objector during the Vietnam War
• William J. White (general) (born 1925), American general

• William White (architect) (1825–1900), English architect
• William H. White, British architect

• 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 White (economist), Canadian economist
• William White (gangster) (1900–1934), Prohibition gangster and Chicago Outfit gunman
• William White (Mayflower passenger), passenger on the Mayflower
• William R. White, President of Hardin-Simmons University, 1940–1943, and of Baylor University, 1948–1961
• Larry Grayson (1923–1995), English stand-up comedy and gameshow host, born William White