William Armstrong
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William Armstrong may be any of several notable persons:
- Kinmont Willie Armstrong (fl. 16th century), Scottish border reiver, known as "Kinmont Willie"
- William Armstrong (artist) (1822-1914), Canadian artist
- William Armstrong (Virginia) (1782-1865), U.S. Representative from Virginia
- William Armstrong (Tennessee) (1795-1847), mayor of Nashville, Tennessee
- William B. Armstrong, California state assembly member
- William H. Armstrong (1914-1999), author of the children's book Sounder
- William Hepburn Armstrong (1824-1919), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
- William L. Armstrong (b. 1937), U.S. Senator from Colorado
- William Armstrong Gould (b. 1940), father of British singer Dido.
- William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810-1900), British industrialist
- William Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead (1915-1980), British civil servant
- William Armstrong (bushranger), (1836-1859), Australian bushranger
- William Armstrong (detective), detective on the Zodiac Killer case.
- William Armstrong, American automobile inventor and founder of Armstrong Electric
- William "Duff" Armstrong, an 1858 defendant for the murder of James Preston Metzker in Mason County, Illinois.
- William T. Armstrong (1929-2005), a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation executive.
- William Armstrong (footballer) (b. 1892), an Australian rules footballer
- William Walton Armstrong (1916-2004), Canadian artist