William Stanton may refer to:

Entertainment

William Graham Stanton William Graham Stanton (18 August 1917 – 6 December 1999) was a British author and radio playwright. __TOC__ Early life William Graham Stanton was born in Brightside, Sheffield, the seventh of eight children of John Stanton (a blacksmit ...

(1917–1999), British radio playwright *

Will Stanton (actor) William Sidney Stanton (September 18, 1885 – December 18, 1969) was an American character actor, whose career spanned the first twenty-five years of the sound film era. Stanton broke into the film industry at the very tail end of the silent fil ...

(1885–1969), American actor *

Will Stanton (author) William Frank Stanton (October 16, 1918 – December 31, 1996) was an American humorist whose short stories and articles appeared in monthly magazines such as ''Reader's Digest'', '' Woman's Day'', ''Saturday Evening Post'' and ''The New Yorker''. ...

(1918–1996), author of humorous fiction and articles * Will Stanton, fictional character from '' The Dark Is Rising'' series * William Stanton, fictional character from ''

By Force of Arms The ''Revolution at Sea Saga'', sometimes known as the ''Isaac Biddlecomb Series'', is a series of five novels written by James L. Nelson, published from 1997 to 2001. It centers around the exploits of protagonist Isaac Biddlecomb during the Ame ...

Politics

William Henry Stanton (MP) William Henry Stanton (6 October 1790 – 24 March 1870) was a British Liberal Party politician. Parliamentary career At the 1841 general election, Stanton was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for the parliamentary borough ...

(1790–1870), British Member of Parliament for Stroud *

William Henry Stanton (congressman) William Henry Stanton (July 28, 1843 – March 28, 1900) was an attorney, editor, politician and judge. He served as a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 12th congres ...

(1843–1900), United States Congressman from Pennsylvania *

J. William Stanton John William Stanton (February 20, 1924 – April 11, 2002) was an American politician who served as a Republican Party (United States), Republican United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1965 to 1983. Biograph ...

(1924–2002), United States Congressman from Ohio * William F. Stanton, served in California legislature *

William Stanton (diplomat) William A. Stanton (traditional Chinese: 司徒文; born 1947) is an American retired career diplomat. Since his retirement from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2012, he has consecutively served as a professor in Taiwan at National Tsinghua Universit ...

(born 1947), United States diplomat

Other

William Stanton (mason) William Stanton (1639–1705) was an English mason and sculptor. He is known particularly for monumental masonry. He is often ferred to as Stanton of Holborn. Life He was son of Edward Stanton (d.1686), and nephew of the mason Thomas Stanton (d ...

(1639–1705), English mason and sculptor * William A. Stanton, better known as Buck Stanton (1870–1909), entomologist at Manila Observatory * Bill Stanton (footballer) (1890–1977), English footballer * Bill Stanton (Canadian football) (1924–2010), Canadian football player, Ottawa Rough Riders * William Stanton (historian) a.k.a. ''William Ragan Stanton'' (ca. 1925–2007), professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh {{hndis, Stanton, William