William Mackenzie, McKenzie, Mckenzie or MacKenzie may refer to:
Artists, musicians, writers and entertainers
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William Lyon Mackenzie
William Lyon Mackenzie (March12, 1795 August28, 1861) was a Scottish Canadian-American journalist and politician. He founded newspapers critical of the Family Compact, a term used to identify elite members of Upper Canada. He represented Yor ...
(1795–1861), Scottish-born journalist & rebel in Upper Canada; grandfather of Canadian prime minister William Lyon MacKenzie King
** ''William Lyon Mackenzie'' (fireboat)
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William Mackay Mackenzie
William Mackay Mackenzie (1871–1952) was a Scottish historian, archaeologist and writer, who was Secretary of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland between 1913 and 1935, and also an expert on folk-lore. He was b ...
(1871–1952), Scottish historian, archaeologist and writer
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Will Mackenzie
Will Mackenzie (born July 24, 1938) is an American television director and actor.
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Mackenzie began his professional career as an actor, making his Broadway debut in 1965 in the original production of the musica ...
(born 1938), American television director and actor
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Billy Mackenzie
William MacArthur Mackenzie (27 March 1957 – 22 January 1997) was a Scottish singer and songwriter, known for his distinctive high tenor voice. He was the co-founder and lead vocalist of post-punk and new wave band the Associates. He also h ...
Bill McKenzie, Baron McKenzie of Luton
William David McKenzie, Baron McKenzie of Luton (24 July 1946 – 2 December 2021) was a British Labour politician. Until the 2010 general election, he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions and the D ...
(1946-2021), English politician
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William Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree
William Warrender Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree, (19 August 1860 – 5 May 1942), known as Sir William Mackenzie between 1918 and 1929, was a British barrister, public servant and Labour Party (UK), Labour (later National Labour Organisation, Na ...
(1860–1942), British barrister, public servant and politician
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William Mackenzie, 5th Earl of Seaforth
William Mackenzie, 5th Earl of Seaforth (died 1740), and 2nd titular Marquess of Seaforth (in the Jacobite Peerage), also known as Uilleam Dubh, or Black William, was a Scottish peer and head of Clan Mackenzie. Educated in France and brought up ...
(died 1740), Scottish nobleman
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William Albany McKenzie
William Albany "Bill" McKenzie AO (21 May 1928 – 2 May 1991) was an Australian local government politician and public servant from Western Australia. He served as Mayor of Fremantle from 1972 to 1984, head of the Western Australian Planning Co ...
(1928–1991), mayor of Fremantle, Western Australia, and Administrator of Christmas Island
* William Alexander McKenzie (1874–1966), builder and political figure in British Columbia
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William Forbes Mackenzie
William Forbes Mackenzie (18 April 1807 – 24 September 1862) was a Scottish Conservative politician and temperance reformer. He is best known for the Forbes MacKenzie Act, legislation passed in 1853 to regulate public houses in Scotland.
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(1807–1862), Scottish Conservative politician and temperance reformer
* William H. MacKenzie (1890–1972), New York assemblyman
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William McKenzie (Australian politician)
William George Alexander McKenzie (3 December 1883 – 4 February 1969) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Woodend to hotel-keeper Henry Daniel McKenzie and Elizabeth Perry. He was educated at Wesley College. Melbourne. On 23 J ...
Will MacKenzie
Will Mackenzie (born July 24, 1938) is an American television director and actor.
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Mackenzie began his professional career as an actor, making his Broadway debut in 1965 in the original production of the musica ...
(William Ruggles MacKenzie, born 1974), American golfer
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Billy MacKenzie (motorcyclist)
Billy MacKenzie (born 7 April 1984 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish former professional motocross racer. He competed in the Motocross World Championships from 1999 to 2013. MacKenzie is a two-time British motocross national champion.
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(born 1984), Scottish motocross racer
* William McKenzie (rugby union) (1871–1943), international New Zealand rugby union player
Other people
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William Mackenzie (contractor)
William Mackenzie (20 March 1794 – 29 October 1851) was an Anglo-Scottish civil engineer and civil engineering contractor who was one of the leading European contractors in the 1840s.Chrimes, Mike 'Mackenzie, William (1794-1851)', ''Oxford Di ...
(1794–1851), British civil engineering contractor
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William Mackenzie (ophthalmologist)
William Mackenzie (April 1791 – July 1868) was a Scottish ophthalmologist. He wrote ''Practical Treatise of the Diseases of the Eye'', one of the first British textbooks of ophthalmology.
Life
Mackenzie was born in Queen Street, Glasgow, an ...
(1791–1868), Scottish ophthalmologist
* William Mackenzie (trader) (1826-1890), born in Edinburgh, trader in
Arorae
Arorae (spelling variants: Arorai, Arurai; also known as Hope Island or Hurd Island“Captain Patterson, commanding the brig ''Elizabeth'', called it Hope Island: “Hope Island, in 2° 43′ S and 176° 56′ 25″ E, was the first discovery, t ...
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Gilbert Islands
The Gilbert Islands ( gil, Tungaru;Reilly Ridgell. ''Pacific Nations and Territories: The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia.'' 3rd. Ed. Honolulu: Bess Press, 1995. p. 95. formerly Kingsmill or King's-Mill IslandsVery often, this n ...
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William Mackenzie (railway entrepreneur)
Sir William Mackenzie (October 17, 1849 – December 5, 1923) was a Canadian railway contractor and entrepreneur.
Born near Peterborough, Canada West (now Ontario), Mackenzie became a teacher and politician before entering business as the ow ...
(1849–1923), railway contractor and entrepreneur in Canada, the United States, and Brazil
* William Mackenzie (doctor) (1862–1935), doctor in public health
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William Colin Mackenzie
Sir William Colin Mackenzie PRSA FRSE (9 March 1877 – 29 June 1938), usually known as Colin Mackenzie, was an Australian anatomist, benefactor, museum administrator and director. He was best known for creating Healesville Sanctuary.
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(1877–1938), Australian anatomist, benefactor, museum administrator and director
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William Douglas Mackenzie William Douglas Mackenzie, D.D., LL.D. (July 16, 1859 – 1936) was an American Congregational theologian, born at Fauresmith, Orange River Colony, South Africa, educated in Edinburgh at Watson's College School (1875) and at the Congregational T ...
(1859–1936), American theologian
* William Gregor MacKenzie (1904-1995), plantsman and gardener
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William Mackenzie (publisher)
William Mackenzie (of Ludgate Hill, Edinburgh and Dublin) was a well-known publisher of natural history books in the 1870s. He published works by the trio of Francis Orpen Morris, Benjamin Fawcett and Alexander Francis Lydon. His best-known publ ...
, publisher of natural history books in the 1870s
* W. J. M. Mackenzie (William James Millar Mackenzie, 1909–1996), British political scholar
* William John MacKenzie (1894–?), American flying ace