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Australia

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Bill Hunt (cricketer) William Alfred Hunt (26 August 1908 – 30 December 1983) was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test cricket, Test match in 1932.William Hunt (sprinter) (1898–1977), Australian Olympic sprinter


New Zealand

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William Hunt (businessman) Sir William Duffus Hunt (2 December 1867 – 18 September 1939) known before his knighthood as W D Hunt, was a leading New Zealand businessman of the first half of the 20th century. With his partner James Johnstone, he built one of Australas ...
(1867–1939), New Zealand business leader, stock and station agent *
Bill Hunt (alpine skier) William Francis Irwin (Wiff or Bill) Hunt (28 September 1929 – 29 November 2009) was an alpine skier from New Zealand. He competed for New Zealand at the 1952 Winter Olympics at Oslo, the first Winter Olympics for New Zealand. He was 65th in th ...
(1929–2009), New Zealand Olympic skier


United Kingdom

* William Hunt (banker), Governor of the Bank of England from 1749 to 1752 *
William Henry Hunt (painter) William Henry Hunt (London 28 March 1790 – 10 February 1864), was an English watercolourist. Hunt was "one of the key figures in nineteenth-century English watercolour painting. His work was extensively collected in his lifetime, particul ...
(1790–1864), English water-colour painter *
William Holman Hunt William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolism. ...
(1827–1910), British painter *
William Hunt (priest) William Hunt (1842–1931) was an English clergyman and historian. Life He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Oxford. He was vicar of Congresbury, Somerset from 1867 to 1882, and then went to London as a reviewer and contributor ...
(1842–1931), English clergyman and historian *
William Warren Hunt William Warren Hunt (called Warren; 22 January 190929 September 1994) was the inaugural Bishop of Repton from 1965 to 1977; and from then until his death an assistant bishop within the Diocese of Chichester. He was educated at Keble College, Oxf ...
(1909–1994), inaugural Bishop of Repton from 1965 to 1977 * Billy Hunt (footballer) (born 1934), English footballer who played in the 1950s *
William Hunt (officer of arms) William George Hunt TD FCA (born 8 December 1946) served as Windsor Herald of Arms in Ordinary at the College of Arms in London from 1999 to 2017. Life Hunt worked for many years as a City chartered accountant before being appointed as Por ...
(born 1946), English Officer of Arms * William D. G. Hunt (born 1955), British army NCO and landmine campaigner


United States

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Wilson Price Hunt Wilson Price Hunt (March 20, 1783 – April 13, 1842) was an early pioneer and explorer of the Oregon Country in the Pacific Northwest of North America. Employed as an agent in the fur trade under John Jacob Astor, Hunt organized and led the gre ...
(1783–1842), or William, pioneer of the Oregon Country in the Pacific Northwest of North America * William H. Hunt (1823–1884), United States Secretary of the Navy *
William Morris Hunt William Morris Hunt (March 31, 1824September 8, 1879) was an American painter. Born into the political Hunt family of Vermont, he trained in Paris with the realist Jean-François Millet and studied under him at the Barbizon artists’ colony, bef ...
(1824–1879), American painter *
William Leonard Hunt William Leonard Hunt (June 10, 1838 – January 17, 1929), also known by the stage name The Great Farini, was a well-known nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian funambulist, entertainment promoter and inventor, as well as the first kn ...
(1838–1929), American/Canadian acrobat and explorer *
William Henry Hunt (judge) William Henry Hunt (November 5, 1857 – February 4, 1949) was the governor of Puerto Rico, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Montana, Associate Judge of the United States Court of Customs ...
(1857–1949), United States judge *
William Henry Hunt (diplomat) William Henry Hunt (1869–1951) was an African-American diplomat, one of the few black people in the United States diplomatic corps (foreign service) during the 19th century. Born in Tennessee, Hunt moved north where he was educated at Williams ...
(1863–1951), United States diplomat *
Bill Hunt (racing driver) Wilbert "Bill" Hunt (22 Aug 1890 Connersville, Indiana – December 15, 1950 Wickenburg, Arizona) was an American racecar Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of au ...
(1890–1950), American racing driver of the 1920s *
William E. Hunt William Edward Hunt, Sr. (February 28, 1923 – February 16, 2016) was an American soldier, lawyer, and jurist. He served as the County Attorney for Liberty County, Montana, and later as the mayor of Chester, Montana. During his tenure as mayor, ...
(1923–2016), Montana Supreme Court associate justice *
William Herbert Hunt William Herbert Hunt (born March 6, 1929) is an American oil billionaire, who along with his brothers Nelson Bunker Hunt and Lamar Hunt tried but failed to corner the world market in silver. According to Forbes, as of January 2015 his net worth ...
(born 1929), American oil billionaire * W. M. Hunt, American photography collector and dealer *
William Dennis Hunt William Dennis Hunt (March 1, 1944June 14, 2020) was an American actor. He was known for his role as Emperor Wang the Perverted in ''Flesh Gordon'' (1974) and ''Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders'' (1990). He is also the only actor to app ...
(1944–2020), American actor *
Will Hunt William Hunt (born September 5, 1971) is an American drummer. He has been a member of rock band Evanescence since 2007, and has also played for Skrape, Dark New Day, Black Label Society, Device, Crossfade, Staind, Static-X, and Slaughter. ...
(born 1971), American drummer


Other

* "Billy Hunt", a song on The Jam's 1978 album ''
All Mod Cons ''All Mod Cons'' is the third studio album by the British band The Jam, released in 1978 by Polydor Records. The title, a British idiom one might find in housing advertisements, is short for "all modern conveniences" and is a pun on the band's ...
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See also

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Hunt (surname) Hunt is an occupational surname related with hunting, originating in England and Ireland. In Estonia, the surname Hunt is also very common, it means wolf in the Estonian language. The Irish family surname is derived from Ó Fiachna and the sign ...
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William Henry Hunt (disambiguation) William Henry Hunt may refer to: * William H. Hunt (1823–1884), United States Secretary of the Navy * William Henry Hunt (judge) (1857–1949), state and federal judge and a territorial governor of Puerto Rico * William Henry Hunt (painter) (179 ...
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