William Wilson
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Many real people and fictitious characters share the name William Wilson, or variations such as Bill or Willlie Wilson, including:
- Politics
- William Wilson (Pennsylvania politician) (fl. 1910s), member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 1815–1819
- William Wilson (Labour politician) (born 1913), British Labour Member of Parliament 1964–1983
- William Wilson (Ohio politician), member of the House of Representatives from Ohio
- Bill Wilson (Scottish politician) (born 1963 as William L. Wilson), Scottish nationalist
- William Bauchop Wilson (1862-1934), a U.S. (Scottish-born) labor leader and political figure.
- William Lyne Wilson, a United States Postmaster General
- William E. Wilson (1870-1948), a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
- William W. Wilson, member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois
- William Wilber Wilfred Wilson, Canadian politician
- William Bauchop Wilson, the first US Secretary of Labor
- William Edward Wilson, member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana
- William Henry Wilson, member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- William Wilson (1720-1796), British Member of Parliament for Ilchester 1761–176
- William Wallace Wilson Alberta politician
- Sports
- Mookie Wilson (b. William Hayward Wilson), a major league outfielder
- William Wilson (aquatics), Scottish writer on swimming, and the inventor of water polo.
- Willie Wilson (baseball player), a major league outfielder
- Academics
- William L. Wilson (Rice University), professor at Rice University
- William Julius Wilson, a sociologist
- Others
- William Wilson (architect) (1641—1710), a British architect, builder and sculptor.
- William Wilson (soldier) (1847-1895), noted for being one of only nineteen individuals to receive the Medal of Honor twice.
- William (Amos) Wilson (c. 1762-1821), a figure in the folklore of southeastern and south-central Pennsylvania in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries; often referred to as The Pennsylvania Hermit.
- Bill Wilson (convict), a man convicted of murdering two individuals who were later found alive
- Bill Wilson (pastor), president and founder of Metro Ministries International
- Bill W. (b. William Griffith Wilson), co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
- Edward Adrian Wilson (aka Bill Wilson), an Antarctic explorer
- William Hardy Wilson, a noted Australian architect, artist and author.
- William Wilson (architect), an architect, builder and sculptor from Sutton Coldfield
- Sir William James Erasmus Wilson, a physician and surgeon
- William A. Wilson, first US Ambassador to the Holy See
- William C. Wilson, General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene
- William Othello Wilson, member of the US Army's 9th Cavalry, and recipient of the Medal of Honor
- William Scott Wilson (b. 1944), a premier author and translator of samurai literature.
- Willie Wilson (minister), a Baptist minister and candidate for mayor of Washington, D.C.
- William Wilson (judge), a judge of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand
- Fictional people
- "William Wilson", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
[edit] See also
William Willson spelled with two Ls:
- Robert William Willson, an English Roman Catholic bishop
- William Willson (MBE), former chairman of Aston Martin
- William H. Willson, pioneer of the U.S. state of Oregon
