William Pickering may refer to:

Politicians

William Pickering (Australian politician) William George Pickering (20 September 1869 – 15 September 1953) was an Australian politician. He was the Country Party member for Sussex in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly The Western Australian Legislative Assembly, or low ...

, Western Australian state MP *

William Pickering (governor) William Pickering (March 15, 1798 – April 22, 1873) was an English-born American politician who served the fifth governor of Washington territory, from 1862 to 1866. He is the member of the Republican Party. Biography Pickering was born i ...

(1798–1873), Republican governor of Washington territory, 1862–1866 *

William A. Pickering William Alexander Pickering (9 June 1840 – 26 January 1907) was the first Protector (title)#Colonial administration, Protector appointed on 3 May 1877 by the British government to administer the Chinese Protectorate in colonial Singapore. H ...

(1840–1907), first Protector appointed by the British government to administer the Chinese Protectorate in colonial Singapore * William Pickering (British MP) for

Warwick (UK Parliament constituency) Warwick was a parliamentary borough consisting of the town of Warwick, within the larger Warwickshire (UK Parliament constituency), Warwickshire constituency of England. It returned two Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliam ...

Sports

* William Pickering (cricketer) (1819–1905), organiser of the first overseas cricket tour by an English side * William Pickering (footballer) (1894–1917), Scottish-born association football player, playing for English team Burnley * Bill Pickering (footballer, born 1901) (1901–1971), English-born professional footballer, playing for English and Welsh teams * Bill Pickering (Australian footballer) (1879–1939), Australian footballer for St Kilda

Others

* William Pickering (fiction), director of the National Reconnaissance Office in Dan Brown's book ''Deception Point'' *

William Pickering (publisher) William Pickering (2 April 1796 – 27 April 1854) was an English publisher and bookseller, notable for various innovations in publishing. He is sometimes credited with introducing edition binding in cloth to British publishing. Life and career P ...

(1796–1854), British publisher and bookseller *

Bill Pickering (rocket scientist) William Hayward Pickering (24 December 1910 – 15 March 2004) was a New Zealand-born aerospace engineer who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years, retiring in 1976. He was a senior NASA luminary and pionee ...

(1910–2004), director of the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1954 to 1976 *

William Henry Pickering William Henry Pickering (February 15, 1858 – January 16, 1938) was an American astronomer. Pickering constructed and established several observatories or astronomical observation stations, notably including Percival Lowell's Flagstaff Observ ...

(1858–1938), American astronomer {{hndis, Pickering, William