William Gordon

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William Gordon may refer to:

[edit] British people

• William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen (1679-1745)
• William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure (c. 1672–1716), a Scottish Jacobite.
• William Gordon, Lord Strathnaver (1683-1720), MP for Tain Burghs, judged ineligible to sit because he was the eldest son of a Scottish peer
• William Gordon (bishop) (d. 1577), the last of the pre-Reformation bishops of Aberdeen owing allegiance to the Roman Catholic Church.
• Sir William Gordon (d. 1742), MP for Sutherland, Cromartyshire and Nairnshire
• Sir William Gordon (1726-1798), MP for Portsmouth
• William Gordon (c. 1735-1776), MP for Rochester
• Hon. William Gordon (1736-1816), MP for Woodstock and Heytesbury
• Lord William Gordon (1744-1823), MP for Inverness-shire, Elginshire and Horsham
• William Gordon (1772-1823), MP for Worcester
• Hon. William Gordon (1785-1858), MP for Aberdeenshire and Fourth Sea Lord
• William Gordon, MP for Chelsea
• William Gordon (Bishop of Leeds)

[edit] American people

• William Gordon (1763-1802), a United States Representative from New Hampshire
• William E. Gordon (b. 1918), a physicist and astronomer. He is referred to as the "father of the Arecibo Observatory".
• William Fitzhugh Gordon (1787-1858), a U.S. Representative from Virginia
• William Washington Gordon, (1796-1842), American politician and railroad executive
• William Gordon (1862-1942), a U.S. Representative from Ohio

[edit] Australian people

• William Gordon (Australian politician), a former Western Australian politician.