William Cook
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William Cook can refer to:
- Bill Cook, ice hockey player in the Hockey Hall of Fame
- William Cook (entrepreneur), the founder of the Cook Group, a medical equipment manufacturer.
- William Cook (computer scientist), developer of object-oriented semantics, creator of AppleScript, founder of Allegis, professor at UT Austin.
- William Cook (street vendor), the brother of Mumia Abu-Jamal (convicted of the murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner)
- William Edwards Cook, American-born expatriate artist, architectural patron, and long-time friend of writer Gertrude Stein.
- William Cook (poultry breeder), from Orpington, Kent, UK; 19th/early 20th century creator of the Orpington poultry breeds.
- William Cook (billiards player), a World Champion of English billiards in the 19th century
- Sir William Cook KCB Kt FRS, developer of the British nuclear bomb at Aldermaston in the 1950s