William Mitchell may refer to:

People

Media and the arts

W. O. Mitchell William Ormond Mitchell, (March 13, 1914 – February 25, 1998) was a Canadian writer and broadcaster. His "best-loved" novel is '' Who Has Seen the Wind'' (1947), which portrays life on the Canadian Prairies from the point of view of a smal ...

(1914–1998), Canadian writer *

William Frederick Mitchell William Frederick Mitchell (Calshot, 1845–1914, Ryde, Isle of Wight) was a British artist commissioned to paint many naval and merchant ships. Mitchell's collected works were originally published in The Royal Navy in a series of illustrati ...

(1845–1914), British naval artist *

William Mitchell (sculptor) William George Mitchell (30 April 1925 – 30 January 2020) was an English sculptor, artist and designer. He is best known for his large scale concrete murals and public works of art from the 1960s and 1970s. His work is often of an abstract or ...

(1925–2020), English sculptor and muralist *

William M. Mitchell William M. Mitchell (c. 1826 – c. 1879) was an American writer, minister and abolitionist who worked on the Underground Railroad. He is said to be the only writer who wrote about the railroad while it was still illegal. Early life and career ...

, American writer, minister and abolitionist * W. R. Mitchell (William Reginald Mitchell, 1928–2015), British writer * William Mitchell, former alias of actor

Peter Finch Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 191614 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor of theatre, film and radio. Born in London, he emigrated to Australia as a teenager and was raised in Sydney, where he worked in vaudeville ...

* William Paul Mitchell, known as

Large Professor William Paul Mitchell (born March 21, 1972), better known by the stage name of Large Professor (also Extra P. and Large Pro), is an American rapper and record producer. Based in New York City, he is known as a founding member of the underground ...

(born 1973), American hip hop producer

Politics and the law

William Mitchell (barrister) William Mitchell KC (1872-22 February 1937) was a Scottish advocate and Liberal Party politician. He was Sheriff-substitute of Selkirkshire. Background Mitchell was born in Keith, Banffshire, the son of George and Kathryn Mitchell. He was educa ...

(died 1937), Scottish Advocate and Liberal politician * William B. Mitchell (1832–1900), Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court * William D. Mitchell (1874–1955), U.S. Attorney General * William F. Mitchell (Wisconsin politician), Republican member of the

Wisconsin State Assembly The Wisconsin State Assembly is the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature. Together with the smaller Wisconsin Senate, the two constitute the legislative branch of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Representatives are elected for two-year terms, ...

William Foot Mitchell Sir William Foot Mitchell (26 June 1859 – 31 July 1947) was a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician in England. Mitchell was Managing Director of Royal Dutch Shell, Royal Dutch Shell plc, an Anglo–Dutch multinational oil an ...

(1859–1947), Conservative Party politician in England, MP 1910 and 1922–1929 * William Henry Mitchell (1834–1919), Washington state politician and businessman *

William Henry Fancourt Mitchell Sir William Henry Fancourt Mitchell (November 1811 – 24 November 1884) was an Australian police commissioner and politician, President of the Victorian Legislative Council for fourteen years. Life Mitchell was the son of the Rev. George Bark ...

(1811–1884), Australian politician * William Mitchell (Burnley MP) (1838–1914), Conservative MP for Burnley, 1900–1905 * William Mitchell (congressman) (1807–1865), congressman from Indiana *

William Mitchell (Huntingdonshire MP) William Mitchell may refer to: People Media and the arts * W. O. Mitchell (1914–1998), Canadian writer * William Frederick Mitchell (1845–1914), British naval artist * William Mitchell (sculptor) (1925–2020), English sculptor and muralist ...

(c. 1703–1745), Member of Parliament for

Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire (; abbreviated Hunts) is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and a historic county of England. The district council is based in Huntingdon. Other towns include St Ives, Godmanchester, St Neots and Ramsey. The popul ...

, 1741–1745 *

William Mitchell (North Dakota) William Mitchell was an educator, Civil War veteran, and North Dakota public servant who served as the first North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1889 until his sudden death in 1890. Biography William Mitchell was born near M ...

(1830–1890), North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction *

William Mitchell (1742–1823) William Mitchell (1742–1823) was a British planter, attorney and official in Jamaica, where he was known as "King Mitchell" for his many interests in plantations. He was also a Member of Parliament at Westminster, and West India Interest activis ...

, Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle, 1796–1799 *

William Mitchell (Canadian politician) William Mitchell (March 14, 1851 – May 10, 1926) was a Canadian politician. Born in Durham Township, Canada West, the son of Thomas Mitchell and Margaret Patrick, both from the north of Ireland, Mitchell started working for a railway comp ...

(1851–1926), Canadian senator * W. Franklin Mitchell, Republican politician from North Carolina, USA * William Mitchell (Australian politician) (1850–1923), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly * William W. Mitchell Sr. (1880–1969), American politician and businessman

Military

Billy Mitchell William Lendrum Mitchell (December 29, 1879 – February 19, 1936) was a United States Army officer who is regarded as the father of the United States Air Force. Mitchell served in France during World War I and, by the conflict's end, command ...

(William Lendrum Mitchell, 1879–1936), American general and airpower advocate *

William Mitchell (RAF officer) Air Chief Marshal Sir William Gore Sutherland Mitchell, (8 March 1888 – 15 August 1944) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the first RAF officer to hold the post of Black Rod. RAF career Commissioned into the Devonshire ...

(1888–1944), senior Royal Air Force commander and Black Rod *

William Mitchell (Royal Navy officer) Vice-Admiral Sir William Mitchell, KCB (c. 1745 – 7 March 1816) was an officer of the British Royal Navy during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Mitchell is best known for rising from humble origins to high rank, having joine ...

(c. 1745–1816), Royal Navy admiral

Science and engineering

William Mitchell (mathematician) William Mitchell may refer to: People Media and the arts * W. O. Mitchell (1914–1998), Canadian writer * William Frederick Mitchell (1845–1914), British naval artist * William Mitchell (sculptor) (1925–2020), English sculptor and muralist ...

, set theorist, see

Jónsson cardinal In set theory, a Jónsson cardinal (named after Bjarni Jónsson) is a certain kind of large cardinal number. An uncountable cardinal number κ is said to be ''Jónsson'' if for every function ''f'': �sup><ω → κ there is a set ''H'' of or ...

William A. Mitchell Dr. William A. Mitchell (October 21, 1911 – July 26, 2004) was an American food chemist who, while working for General Foods Corporation between 1941 and 1976, was the key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang, Cool Whip, and powdered egg whites. ...

(1911–2004), corporate chemist responsible for Tang and Pop Rocks *

Bill Mitchell (automobile designer) William L. Mitchell (July 2, 1912 – September 12, 1988) was an American automobile designer. Mitchell worked briefly as an advertising illustrator and as the official illustrator of the Automobile Racing Club of America before being recruited ...

(William L. Mitchell, 1912–1988), American automobile designer *

William Mitchell (physicist) Sir Edgar William John Mitchell, (September 25, 1925 – October 30, 2002) was a British physicist, professor of physics at Reading and Oxford, and he helped pioneer the field of neutron scattering. Born in Kingsbridge, Devon, England, he studi ...

(1925–2002), Oxford physicist who helped pioneer neutron scattering *

William McGregor Mitchell Prof William McGregor Mitchell FRSE MC TD (1888- 13 April 1970) was a 20th-century Scottish veterinary surgeon who served with distinction in the First World War, and was later the Director of the Veterinary Services in Scotland. Life He was bor ...

(1888–1970), Scottish veterinary surgeon

Sports

William Grant Mitchell William Grant Mitchell (23 May 1865 – 14 January 1904) was an English rugby union fullback who was a member of the first official British Isles team. Mitchell represented several club teams and was an original member of touring team, the Barb ...

(1865–1905), English international rugby union player *

John Mitchell (cricketer) William John Mitchell (born 1 December 1947) is a former New Zealand cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Northern Districts and Otago. A right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler, Mitchell played 14 first-clas ...

(William John Mitchell, born 1947), Northern Districts cricketer * William Mitchell (cricketer, born 1859) (1859–1929), English cricketer

Other

Bill Mitchell (economist) William Francis Mitchell (born 7 March 1952) is a professor of economics at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and Docent Professor of Global Political Economy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is one of the foun ...

(William Francis Mitchell, born 1952), Australian economist *

William J. Mitchell William John Mitchell (15 December 1944 – 11 June 2010) was an Australian-born author, educator, architect and urban designer, best known for leading the integration of architectural and related design arts practice with computing and other t ...

(1944–2010), Australian-born American urban designer and architect *

W. J. T. Mitchell William John Thomas Mitchell (born March 24, 1942) is an American academic. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He is also the editor of ''Critical Inquiry'', a ...

(born 1942), American historian *

William Mitchell (philosopher) Sir William Mitchell (27 March 186124 June 1962) was an Australian philosopher and academic. He was Professor of English Language, Literature, Mental and Moral Philosophy at the University of Adelaide from 1894–1922, Vice-Chancellor 1916–194 ...

(1861–1962), University of Adelaide professor, vice chancellor and chancellor, 1942–1948 *

William Mitchell (missionary) William Mitchell (20 November 1803 – 3 August 1870) was a Church of England priest who was the second ordained person, after Louis Giustiniani, to provide religious services in the Swan Valley area of the Swan River Colony. He worked in the S ...

(1803–1870), Anglican priest who established religious services in the Swan River Colony *

William Mitchell (Scottish entrepreneur) William Mitchell (16 March 1781 – 17 February 1854) was a Scottish entrepreneur. He was born in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, the second son of Alexander Mitchell and Janet Barrowman. He was a co-founder of the Alloa Coal Company later run by his ...

(1781–1854), co-founder of the Alloa Coal Company * William Mitchell, a Black man involved in the 1839 Marion riot

Characters

* President Bill Mitchell, fictional President of the United States in the film ''Dave'' *

Will Mitchell The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders'' in 2007, by order of first appearance. A new family were introduced in this year, with Zainab Masood, Masood Ahmed, Shabnam Masood and Tamwar Masoo ...

, fictional character in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''

Institutions and companies

William Mitchell College of Law William Mitchell College of Law was a private, independent law school located in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, from 1956 to 2015. Accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA), it offered full- and part-time legal education in pursuit of ...

, law school named for William B. Mitchell