William Wright

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There are many well-known people called William Wright or Bill Wright, such as:

  • Bill Wright (baseball player) (born 1914), an outfielder in the Negro Leagues
  • William Wright, the real name of Dan DeQuille, American author, newspaperman, and humorist
  • William Wright (actor) (1911-1949), American movie actor
  • William Wright (author), author of Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals
  • William Wright (game designer), see: Will Wright
  • William Wright (Orientalist) (1830-1889) [1]
  • William Wright (Medal of Honor) (1835-?), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
  • William "Billy" Wright (poet) (1981-??), flop-poet
  • William Wright (poet) (1782-??), Scottish poet
  • William Wright (politician) (1794-1866), mayor of Newark, New Jersey and US Senator
  • William Wright (privateer), English privateer in French service and later buccaneer who raided Spanish towns in the late 1600s
  • William Wright (sailor) (??-1821), a sailor on the Whaleship Essex
  • William Wright (shipbuilder) (c.1800-1878), Canadian shipbuilder
  • William Carter Wright (1866-1933), US Representative from Georgia
  • William Wright, City Attorney's Office, Cedar Rapids, IA