William Maxwell
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A number of people are called William Maxwell:
- William Maxwell (Continental Army general) (1733–1796), Irish-born American soldier from New Jersey in the American Revolutionary War
- General Sir William Maxwell, 7th Baronet of Calderwood (1754–1837)
- William Hamilton Maxwell (1792–1850), a Scots-Irish novelist
- William Maxwell (Erie RR), president of Erie Railroad 1842-1843
- William Babington Maxwell (1866–1938), a British novelist
- William Sutherland Maxwell (1874-1951), a Canadian architect and a Hand of the Cause in the Bahá'í Faith
- William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. (1908–2000), an American editor and writer
- William Maxwell (engraver) (1755-1809), printer of the Centinel of the Northwest Territory newspaper in Cincinnati, Ohio
- William Maxwell (footballer), manager of the Belgian national football team
- William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale