William Jackson may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* William Jackson (organist born 1730) (1730–1803), referred to as Jackson of Exeter, English organist and composer * William Jackson of Masham (1815–1866), English organist and composer *

William Henry Jackson William Henry Jackson (April 4, 1843 – June 30, 1942) was an American photographer, Civil War veteran, painter, and an explorer famous for his images of the American West. He was a great-great nephew of Samuel Wilson, the progenitor of Ame ...

(1843–1942), early photographer of the American West *

William Jackson (Scottish composer) William Jackson (born 14 September 1955) is a Scottish people, Scottish harpist and composer. William Jackson was born in Cambuslang, near Glasgow. As his grandparents came from County Donegal, he visited Republic of Ireland, Ireland many time ...

(born 1955), Scottish composer *

William F. Jackson William F. Jackson (c. 1850 – January 8, 1936) was an American painter and art curator. References 1850s births 1936 deaths People from Council Bluffs, Iowa Artists from Sacramento, California Painters from California 19th-century Am ...

, American painter and art curator

Military

William Jackson (pirate) William Jackson () was an English privateer who, based in Guanaja and Roatan, was in the service of the Providence Island Company from 1639 until around 1641. During that year, he captured a Spanish slave ship at the Honduran port of Trujillo and ...

(fl. 1639–1645), British pirate * William Lowther Jackson (1825–1890), Confederate general * William Hicks Jackson (1835–1903), Confederate general from Tennessee *

William Payne Jackson William Payne Jackson (January 9, 1868 – January 13, 1945) was a career officer in the United States Army. A veteran of the American Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, Philippine–American War, Moro Rebellion, Pancho Villa Expedition, and W ...

(1868–1945), U.S. Army general *

William Jackson (Australian soldier) John William Alexander Jackson, VC (13 September 1897 – 4 August 1959) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. ...

(1897–1959), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross *Sir William Jackson (British Army officer) (1917–1999), British general, Governor of Gibraltar, military historian, and author *

William Francis Jackson Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom), Lieutenant-Colonel William Francis Jackson (1886–1964) distinguished himself in World War I and World War II. He was Signals Liaison Officer to the Headquarters of the United States Army in the United Kin ...

, British Army officer

Politics and law

U.K.

William Jackson (fl. 1601–1604) William Jackson (fl. 1601–1604) was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Guildford in 1601 and for Haslemere in 1604. He has not been clearly identified, beyond his name in the records, but ''The History ...

, MP for Guildford and Haslemere * Sir William Jackson, 1st Baronet (1805–1876), British MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme and Derbyshire North *

William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton William Lawies Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton, (16 February 1840 – 4 April 1917) was a British businessman and Conservative politician. Background and education Born in Otley, near Leeds, England, Jackson was the son of William Jackson, a leat ...

(1840–1917), English politician, Member of Parliament for Leeds *

William Jackson, 1st Baron Jackson William Frederick Jackson, 1st Baron Jackson (29 November 1893 – 2 May 1954) was a British fruit farmer from Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire who was noted for his scientific cultivation of a range of fruits. He was a Liberal Party activist who join ...

(1893–1954), Member of Parliament for Brecon and Radnorshire, 1939–1945

U.S.

William Jackson (secretary) William Jackson (March 9, 1759 – December 17, 1828) was a figure in the American Revolution and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention, and as part of his ...

(1759–1828), Secretary to the Philadelphia Convention and member of the U.S. Continental Army *

William Jackson (Massachusetts politician, born 1783) William Jackson (September 2, 1783 – February 27, 1855) was a United States representative from Massachusetts who lived at the Jackson Homestead. Early life He was born in Newton on September 2, 1783. He attended the district school, where hi ...

(1783–1855), US Congressman from Massachusetts *

William Terry Jackson William Terry Jackson (December 29, 1794 – September 15, 1882) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Born in Chester, New York, Jackson attended the common schools and later studied surveying. He taught school in Goshen, New York from 181 ...

(1794–1882), U.S. Representative from New York * William Jackson (Saugus, Massachusetts), English-American pottery manufacturer and politician of the 1820s *

William A. Jackson William A. Jackson was a spy/freed slave for the Union forces during the American Civil War. A household slave and coachman of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, he observed communications between Davis and other Con ...

, Black dispatches spy during the American Civil War * William Humphreys Jackson (1839–1915), congressman from Maryland * William Purnell Jackson (1868–1939), member of the United States Senate from Maryland * William S. Jackson (died 1932), New York State Attorney General, 1907–1908 *

William T. Jackson (Ohio politician) William Trayton Jackson (May 8, 1876 – October 3, 1933) was an American politician. He served as mayor of Toledo, Ohio Toledo ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States. A major Midwestern United States port ...

(1876–1933), mayor of Toledo, Ohio * William Harding Jackson (1901–1971), United States National Security Advisor * William M. Jackson (judge) (born 1953), associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia

Other political figures

William Jackson (New Zealand politician) William Jackson (11 October 1832 – 29 September 1889), generally known as Major Jackson, was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in the Waikato region of New Zealand. Early life Jackson was born in 1832 in Providence Green, Green Hammerton, ...

(1832–1889), New Zealand politician * William Jackson (Canadian politician) (1858–1938), Canadian Member of Parliament * William Jackson (Canadian administrator)

Religion

William Jackson (journalist) The Reverend William Jackson (1737 – 30 April 1795) was a noted Irish preacher, journalist, playwright, and radical. He was arrested in Dublin in 1794 following meetings with the United Irish leaders Theobald Wolfe Tone and Archibald Hamilton ...

(1737–1795), Irish preacher, journalist, playwright, radical, and spy *

William Jackson (bishop) William Jackson (1751 – 2 December 1815, Cuddesdon) was an Anglican bishop, serving as Bishop of Oxford (as second choice after his elder brother Cyril Jackson refused the post) and Clerk of the Closet. Jackson was educated at Manchester Gramm ...

(1751–1815), bishop of Oxford *

William Jackson (Archdeacon of Carlisle) William Jackson (17 December 1792 – 13 September 1878) was an English Anglican priest and academic. Born in Grasmere, to Rector Thomas Jackson, Jackson was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford, matriculating in 1808 and graduating B.A. in ...

(1792–1873), priest and academic * William Jackson (Dean of Killala) (died 1885), Anglican priest in Ireland *William

Walrond Jackson William Walrond Jackson (9 January 181125 November 1895) was Bishop of Antigua from 1860 to 1879. Life He was the son of William Jackson of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, and Mary Judith Walrond. Jackson was educated at Codrington College, ...

(1811–1895), Bishop of Antigua, 1860–1879 * William Jackson (Archdeacon of Killala) (died 1903) * William Jackson (priest) (1838–1931), Rector of Exeter College, Oxford * Ernest Jackson (priest) (William Ernest Jackson), 20th century Canadian Anglican priest *

William Henry Jackson (priest) The Reverend Father William Henry Jackson (1889–1931) was an Anglican priest from England, who served as a missionary and ran the Kemmendine Blind School in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar), for whose choir he also composed, conducted and r ...

(1889–1931), Anglican priest, missionary, and inventor of Burmese Braille

Science and medicine

William Jackson (engineer) William Jackson (March 13, 1848 – June 30, 1910) was the Boston, Massachusetts city engineer from 1885 to 1910. He was responsible for a number of the major bridges in the city, including Harvard Bridge, Longfellow Bridge, and Charlestown ...

(1848–1910), Boston, Massachusetts city engineer, 1885–1910 * William Jackson (inventor) (1849–1915), Scottish mechanical engineer *

William M. Jackson (chemist) William Morgan Jackson (born September 24, 1936) is a Distinguished Research and Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Davis and pioneer in the field of astrochemistry. His work considers cometary astrochemistry and the de ...

(born 1936), researcher *

William Elvin Jackson William Elvin Jackson (1904–1972) was an aviation electronics engineer who contributed to the fields of aeronautical navigation, communications and air traffic control. Jackson assisted in the development of nearly all of the electronic aids to a ...

, aviation electronics engineer

Sports

William Jackson (curler) William Kilgour Jackson (14 March 1871 in Lamington, South Lanarkshire – 26 January 1955 in Symington) was a Scottish curler. He was the skip of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club team which won the first Olympic Gold medal in curling at the ...

(1871–1955), Scottish winner of the first Olympic gold medal in curling, Chamonix, 1924 * William Jackson (footballer) (1876–1954), Newton Heath F.C., Burnley F.C. and Wales international footballer * Bill Jackson (first baseman) (William Riley Jackson, 1881–1958), first baseman for the Chicago Whales * William Jackson (pitcher) (fl. 1890–1906), pitcher and outfielder for early minor leagues and Negro leagues *

William Jackson III William Jackson III (born October 27, 1992) is an American football cornerback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Houston Cougars and was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in ...

(born 1992), American football player

Others

* William Jackson (Boston loyalist) (1731–1810), American Revolutionary era loyalist *

William Jackson (gangster) William Jackson, also known as Action Jackson (December 13, 1920 – August 11, 1961) was an enforcer and loan collector for the Chicago Outfit. He earned his nickname of "Action" because it was slang for "Juice Man", which meant debt-collector. ...

(1901–1961), loan shark, enforcer and murder victim * William Turrentine Jackson (1915–2000), American professor of history *William K. Jackson, architect and co-founder of

KBJ Architects KBJ Architects, Inc. (KBJ) is an American architectural firm based in Jacksonville, Florida. The firm designed 17 of the city's 30 tallest buildings and "created Jacksonville's modern skyline", according to ''The Florida Times-Union'' newspaper.Ker ...

* William Jackson Food Group, a food manufacturer in the United Kingdom * William Perry Jackson (born 1955), American serial killer