William Phillips
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There have been a number of people named William Phillips:
- William Phillips (pirate) (16??-1724) was an English pirate.
- William Phillips (General) (1731-1781) was an Artilleryman and General Officer in the British Army who served as a Major General in the American Revolutionary War.
- William Phillips (geologist) (1775-1829) as a British mineralogist who the founded the Geological Society of London.
- William Phillips (diplomat) was the first American ambassador to Canada
- William Phillips (baseball) was a Canadian baseball player
- William Phillips (economist) was a New Zealander known for the Phillips curve and Moniac hydraulic computer
- William Phillips (director) is a film director of movies such as Foolproof
- William Phillips (writer) was a writer, literary critic and founder of the Partisan Review.
- William Addison Phillips (1824–1893), American lawyer and politician
- William D. Phillips is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, specializing in laser cooling of atoms.
- William T. Phillips (1863–1937), American author