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William Wilson
Scottish founder of the Secession church

William Wilson

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Scottish founder of the Secession church
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Age
51 years
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Biography

William Wilson, or variants, may refer to:

Politicians

British

  • William Wilson (died 1582), MP for Southwark
  • William Wilson (1720–1796), British Member of Parliament for Ilchester, 1761–1768
  • William Wilson (Donegal MP) (1836–1876), MP for Donegal 1876–1879
  • William Tyson Wilson (1855–1921), British trade unionist and Member of Parliament for Westhoughton
  • William Wilson (Labour politician) (1913–2010), British Labour Member of Parliament, 1964–1983
  • Bill Wilson (Scottish politician) (William L. Wilson, born 1963), Scottish nationalist

American

  • Bill Wilson (activist) (born 1953), Washington-based activist
  • Bill Wilson (Montana politician) (born 1961), Montana State Representative
  • Will Wilson (1912–2005), American politician, attorney, and judge in Texas
  • William Wilson (Illinois jurist) (1794–1857), Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court
  • William Wilson (Ohio politician) (1773–1827), U.S. Representative from Ohio
  • William Wilson (Pennsylvania), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1815–1819
  • William Wilson (Wisconsin politician), Wisconsin State Senator
  • William A. Wilson (1914–2009), first U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See
  • William Bauchop Wilson (1862–1934), U.S. (Scottish-born) labor leader and political figure
  • William C. Wilson (New York politician), New York comptroller in 1906
  • William E. Wilson (Indiana politician) (1870–1948), U.S. Representative from Indiana
  • William H. Wilson (1877–1937), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1935–1937
  • William H. Wilson (New York politician) (c. 1873–1901), New York assemblyman
  • William K. Wilson, Wisconsin State Senator
  • William Lyne Wilson (1843–1900), United States Postmaster General
  • William Sydney Wilson (1816–1862), prominent Confederate politician
  • William Warfield Wilson (1868–1942), U.S. Representative from Illinois
  • Willie Wilson (businessman) (born 1948), Chicago businessman, musician, philanthropist, and political candidate
  • W. Eugene Wilson (William Eugene "Gene" Wilson, 1929–2015), member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Canadian

  • William Wilson (British Columbia politician) (1838–1922), merchant and politician in British Columbia
  • William Wilson (New Brunswick politician) (1845–1921), Canadian politician in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
  • William Wilson (Upper Canada politician) (1789–1847), politician in Upper Canada
  • William Wallace Wilson (1876–1967), Alberta politician
  • William Wilber Wilfred Wilson (1885–1964), Canadian politician

Australasian

  • William Wilson (Australian politician) (1834–1891), member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Council
  • William Wilson (mayor) (1819–1897), first mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand, 1868

Sports

  • Bill Wilson (footballer) (1924–1969), Australian rules footballer for Richmond and Glenelg
  • Billy Wilson (Australian rules footballer) (1891–1957), Australian footballer for Fitzroy
  • William Wilson (Australian sportsman) (1909–1976), Australian cricketer and Australian rules footballer for Essendon
  • William Wilson (cricketer, born 1912), Australian cricketer
  • Bill Wilson (catcher) (1867–1924), MLB catcher
  • Willy Wilson (baseball) (1884–1925), baseball player
  • Mutt Wilson (William Clarence Wilson, 1896–1962), MLB pitcher
  • Bill Wilson (outfielder) (born 1928), MLB outfielder
  • Bill Wilson (pitcher) (1942–1993), Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher
  • Willie Wilson (baseball) (born 1955), American baseball outfielder
  • Mookie Wilson (William Hayward Wilson, born 1956), MLB outfielder
  • Billy Wilson (American football) (1927–2009), NFL wide receiver
  • Billy Wilson (rugby league) (1927–1993), Australian rugby league footballer
  • Billy Wilson (New Zealand rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1910s and '20s for New Zealand, Wellington and Athletic
  • Willy Wilson (born 1980), Filipino basketball player
  • William Wilson (aquatics) (1844–1912), Scottish writer on swimming, and the inventor of water polo
  • William George Wilson (1917–2007), sports cinematographer
  • Billy Wilson (running back), college football player

Association football

  • William Wilson (defender), English footballer for Newcastle United and Bradford City
  • William Wilson (footballer, born 1902), English footballer
  • William Wilson (footballer, born 1915), English footballer
  • William Wilson (footballer, born November 1915), English footballer
  • William Wilson (footballer, born 1921), Scottish football goalkeeper
  • Billy Wilson (footballer, born 1936), Northern Irish football player for Burnley
  • Billy Wilson (footballer, born 1946), English footballer
  • Billy Wilson (American soccer) (fl. 1920s–30s), American soccer player
  • Billy Wilson (Scottish footballer), played for Airdrieonians FC and managed Albion Rovers F.C.
  • Willie Wilson (footballer, born 1941) (1941–2001), Scottish footballer
  • Willie Wilson (footballer, born 1972), Scottish footballer

Academics

  • William Julius Wilson (born 1935), sociologist
  • William L. Wilson (Rice University), professor at Rice University
  • William Wilson (English academic) (1875–1965), English physicist

Military

  • William Wilson (Medal of Honor) (1847–1895), noted for being one of only nineteen individuals to receive the Medal of Honor twice
  • William Othello Wilson (1867–1928), member of the US Army's 9th Cavalry, and recipient of the Medal of Honor
  • William Tecumseh Wilson (1823–1905), American Union brevet brigadier general from Ohio
  • William Wilson (Zouave) (1823–1874), American Union brevet brigadier general from New York

Art and architecture

  • William Wilson (architect) (1641–1710), English architect, builder and sculptor
  • William Hardy Wilson (1881–1955), Australian architect, artist and author
  • William Wilson (artist) (1905–1972), Scottish stained glass artist, printmaker and watercolour painter
  • Will Wilson (photographer) (born 1969), Native American photographer

Religion

  • Bill Wilson (pastor) (born 1948), president and founder of Metro Ministries International
  • William C. Wilson (1866–1915), General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene
  • William Wilson (bishop) (1806–1888), Anglican bishop in Scotland
  • William Carus Wilson (1791–1859), English churchman and founder and editor of The Children's Friend
  • William Hay Wilson (1864–1935), Anglican priest
  • Billy Wilson (academic) (born 1958), theologian affiliated with Oral Roberts University
  • William Wilson (priest) (1545–1615), Canon of Windsor

Music

  • William Wilson (vocalist), lead singer of Legion Within, a gothic industrial rock band founded in 2000
  • William Llewellyn Wilson, conductor, musician, teacher and music educator from Baltimore
  • Willie Wilson (drummer) (born 1947), member of Quiver; worked with Pink Floyd, Al Stewart
  • "William Wilson", song by The Smithereens from their 1989 album 11

Literature

  • William Wilson (poet) (1801–1860), Scottish-American poet, bookseller and publisher
  • William E. Wilson (writer) (1906–1988), American author and professor
  • William Scott Wilson (born 1944), author and translator of samurai literature

Others

  • Bill Wilson (convict) (1880–?), convicted of murdering two individuals who were later found alive
  • Bill Wilson, founder of US firearms manufacturer Wilson Combat
  • Bill Wilson (judge), New Zealand judge of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal
  • Bill W. (William Griffith Wilson, 1895–1971), co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
  • Billy Roy Wilson (William Roy Wilson, Jr., born 1939), United States federal judge
  • Billy Wilson (outlaw) (1862–1918), American outlaw who rode with Billy the Kid
  • Edward Adrian Wilson (aka Bill Wilson, 1872–1912), Antarctic explorer
  • William "Amos" Wilson (1762–1821), folklore figure of southeastern and south-central Pennsylvania, often referred to as The Pennsylvania Hermit
  • William E. Wilson, British railway civil engineer, first employer of John Harry Grainger
  • William Edward Wilson (astronomer) (1851–1908), Irish astronomer
  • William James Erasmus Wilson (1809–1884), physician and surgeon
  • William Wilson (botanist) (1799–1871), English botanist
  • William Proctor Wilson (1921–2010), former president of Buttrick Publishing Company
  • William Wilson (businessman) (died 2015), chairman of Aston Martin, 1972–1975
  • William Wilson (engineer) (1809–1862), first locomotive driver in Germany, railway pioneer
  • William Wilson (physicist) (1887–1948), English-born physicist
  • William Wilson, founder of Price's Candles

In fiction

  • "William Wilson" (short story), an 1839 short story by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Wilson the Wonder Athlete, a character in British story and comic papers published by D.C. Thomson
  • Billy Wilson, a character in Angels with Broken Wings

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