William Pickering
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- William Pickering (April 2, 1796–1854), British publisher and bookseller (biography: Keynes, Geoffrey Kt. William Pickering Publisher. New York: Burt Franklin, 1969) [1]
- William Pickering (March 15, 1798–April 22, 1873), Republican governor of Washington territory (1862–1866)
- William Henry Pickering (1858–1938), American astronomer
- William Hayward Pickering (1910–2004), Rocket Man, New Zealand–American director of the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- William Pickering is the Director of the NRO in Dan Brown's book Deception Point.
- William A. Pickering was the first Protector appointed by the British administration of colonial Straits Settlements to head the Chinese Protectorate.