William King may refer to:

Arts

Willie King Willie King (March 18, 1943 – March 8, 2009) was an American blues guitarist and singer, known for shunning fame and playing at a local bar in Mississippi. Biography King was born in Prairie Point, a community in Noxubee County, Mississippi n ...

(1943–2009), American blues guitarist and singer *

William King (author) William King (born 7 December 1959), also known as Bill King, is a Scottish writer of a number of science fiction and fantasy books, most notably in Games Workshop's Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 series, published by Games Workshop's fiction ...

(born 1959), British science fiction author and game designer, also known as Bill King *

William King (artist) William King (25 February 1925 – 4 March 2015) was a contemporary American sculptor born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1925. His work spanned countless media and usually revolved around the figurative portrayal of human figures. After attending ...

(1925–2015), American sculptor *

William King (poet) William King (1663–1712) was an English poet. Life Born in London, England, the son of Ezekiel King, he was related to the family of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon. From Westminster School, where he was a scholar under Richard Busby, ...

(1663–1712), English poet *

William King (singer) William King (born January 30, 1949) is an American singer, musician and choreographer. He is a founding member of the Commodores, where he plays trumpet, guitar, synthesizer, flute, and congas/percussion and is the group's choreographer. Backgro ...

(born 1949), American singer with the Commodores *

Bill King (photographer) William King (1939-1987), was an American fashion photographer Fashion photography is a genre of photography which is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items, sometimes haute couture. It typically consists of a fashion photographe ...

(1939–1987), American fashion photographer

Politics

* Bill King (New Hampshire politician), American politician *

William King (Canadian politician) William 'Bill' King (September 15, 1930 - December 3, 2020) was a former British Columbia politician from Revelstoke. King was a member of Dave Barrett's 1972 BC NDP provincial government, serving in the post of Minister of Labour. King was bo ...

(1930–2020), British Columbia politician *

William King (governor) William King (February 9, 1768June 17, 1852) was an American merchant, shipbuilder, army officer, and statesman from Bath, Maine. A proponent of statehood for Maine, he became its first governor when it separated from Massachusetts in 1820. He ...

(1768–1852), American statesman, governor of Maine ** ''William King'' (Simmons), an 1878 marble sculpture *

William King (Governor of West Florida) William King (died January 1826) was an American army officer who was military governor of West Florida from May 26, 1818 to February 4, 1819. He was appointed to the position by Andrew Jackson, who led the American occupation of Spanish West Flor ...

(died 1826), American governor of West Florida, 1818–1819 * William King (Australian politician) (1893–1966), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly *

William Cutfield King William Cutfield King (1829 – 8 February 1861) was a 19th-century New Zealand politician who was elected to Parliament, but was killed in the New Zealand Wars before the first session. Early life King was born in Devonshire, England in 1829 ...

(1829–1861), New Zealand politician *

William David King Sir William David King (1829 – 22 October 1902) was an English Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician, auctioneer and four times Mayor of Portsmouth 1877–1878, 1878–1879, 1886–1887 and 1889–1890. Biography King was born in Portsmouth 1 ...

(1829–1902), English politician, four times Mayor of Portsmouth * William E. King (born 1885), American State Senator from Illinois * William H. King (1863–1949), American Senator from Utah *

William Lyon Mackenzie King William Lyon Mackenzie King (December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950) was a Canadian statesman and politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Canada for three non-consecutive terms from 1921 to 1926, 1926 to 1930, and 1935 to 1948. A Li ...

(1874–1950), tenth prime minister of Canada * William M. King, Oregon state legislator * William R. King (1786–1853), American statesman, vice president under Franklin Pierce *

William R. King (judge) William R. King (October 3, 1864 – June 2, 1934) was an American politician and judge in the state of Oregon. He was the 37th associate justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. A native of Washington, he also served in Oregon's legislature and ...

(1864–1934), American legislator and jurist from Oregon * William Robert King (1888–1953), provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada * William S. King (1828–1900), American congressman from Minnesota *

William Sterling King William Sterling King (October 6, 1818 – June 29, 1882) was an American officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, twice elected to the Massachusetts legislature, and was the first Chief Constable of the then-Massachusetts State ...

(1818–1882), American military officer and Massachusetts politician

Religion

William King (bishop) William King (1 May 1650 – 8 May 1729) was an Anglican divine in the Church of Ireland, who was Archbishop of Dublin from 1703 to 1729. He was an author and supported the Glorious Revolution. He had considerable political influence in Ireland ...

(1650–1729), Anglican Archbishop of Dublin *

William King (minister) William King (November 11, 1812 – January 5, 1895) was an Irish-born minister and abolitionist. He founded the Elgin settlement, a community of former African-American slaves, in southwestern Ontario. The son of William King and Elizabeth Tor ...

(1812–1895), Canadian Presbyterian minister and community founder * William Smyth King (1810–1890), Dean of Leighlin * William King (priest) (died 1590), Canon of Windsor

Science

* W. B. R. King (William Bernard Robinson King, 1889–1963), British geologist *

William King (physician) William King (17 April 1786 – 19 October 1865) was a British physician and philanthropist from Brighton. He is best known as an early supporter of the co-operative movement through the paper he founded, ''The Co-operator''. William King was ...

(1786–1865), British physician, supporter of cooperative movement * William King (engineer) (1851–1929), Scottish engineer *

William King (geologist) William King (22 April 1809 – 24 June 1886), was an Anglo-Irish geologist at Queen's College Galway. He was the first (in 1864) to propose that the bones found in the German valley of Neanderthal in 1856 were not of ''Homo sapiens'', but o ...

(1809–1886), Irish geologist, first to recognize ''Homo neanderthalensis'' as a species *

William Wickham King William Wickham King (30 May 1862 – 11 December 1959), usually known as Wickham King, was a distinguished amateur geologist, a Fellow of the Geological Society for 50 years. He was the younger son of William Henry King and followed him as a soli ...

(1863–1959), British amateur geologist *

William Frederick King William Frederick King (February 19, 1854 – April 23, 1916) was a Canadian surveyor, astronomer, and civil servant. Born in Stowmarket, England, the son of William King and Ellen Archer, King emigrated to Port Hope, Canada West with his f ...

(1854–1916), Canadian surveyor, astronomer, and civil servant * William King (GSI) (died 1900), geologist with the Geological Survey of India *

William Paul King William Paul King is an American mechanical engineer, currently the Ralph A. Andersen Endowed Chair at the University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public ...

, American mechanical engineer *

William Richard King William Richard King, the thirty-sixth President of The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS), is a retired American university professor who studied and researched management science and information systems at the University of Pittsburgh in Pen ...

(born 1938), American management and information scientist

Sports

Bill King Wilbur "Bill" King (October 6, 1927 – October 18, 2005) was an American sports announcer. In 2016, the National Baseball Hall of Fame named King recipient of the 2017 Ford C. Frick Award, the highest honor for American baseball broadcasters. ...

(1927–2005), American sports radio announcer *

Bill King (Australian rugby league) William ‘Bill’ King was an Australian rugby league footballer in the New South Wales Rugby Football League's foundation season of 1908. Playing career A , King played for Eastern Suburbs club before joining the North Sydney club in 191 ...

, rugby league footballer in Australia * Bill King (New Zealand rugby league) (fl. 1910s), New Zealand international rugby league player * Billy King (sportsman) (1902–1987), Irish cricketer *

William King (London cricketer) This is a list of the earliest known English cricketers whose careers began prior to the first matches which are now considered to hold first-class status in 1772. The list is by season, this being the season in which the player's name first a ...

, English cricketer of the 1750s * William King (footballer) (1898–1962), Scottish international footballer * William King (rugby union) (1890–1937), American rugby union player *

Willie King (basketball) Wilbert King (February 16, 1915 - 1965) was an American professional basketball and baseball player. King played in the Negro leagues from 1944 to 1947 with the New York Black Yankees, Cleveland Buckeyes, Chicago American Giants, and Homestead Gr ...

(1915–1965), American basketball player *

Dolly King Dolly may refer to: Tools *Dolly (tool), a portable anvil * A posser, also known as a dolly, used for laundering * A variety of wheeled tools, including: **Dolly (trailer), for towing behind a vehicle **Boat dolly or launching dolly, a device fo ...

(William King, 1916–1969), American baseball player

Other

Bill King (Royal Navy officer) Commander William Donald Aelian King, DSO & Bar, DSC (23 June 1910 – 21 September 2012) was a British naval officer, yachtsman and author. He was the oldest participant in the first solo non-stop, around-the-world yacht race, the ''Sund ...

(1910–2012), British submarine commander, circumnavigator, author * William King (police officer) (born 1972), former Baltimore police officer sentenced to 315 years in prison *

William King (St Mary Hall) William King (1685–1763) was an English academic and writer, Principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford from 1719, He was known for strongly held Jacobite views, and as a satirist and poet. Early life Born at Stepney, Middlesex, on 16 March 1685, he wa ...

(1685–1763), English Jacobite academic and writer *

William King, 1st Earl of Lovelace William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace, FRS (21 February 1805 – 29 December 1893), styled the Honourable William King until 1833 and Lord King from 1833 to 1838, was an English nobleman and scientist. Early life and background Lovelac ...