William Wilson

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Many real people and fictitious characters share the name William Wilson, or variations such as Bill or Willlie Wilson, including:

Politics

• William Wilson (Pennsylvania politician) (fl. 1910s), member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 1815–1819
• William Wilson (Labour politician) (born 1913), British Labour Member of Parliament 1964–1983
• William Wilson (Ohio politician), member of the House of Representatives from Ohio
• Bill Wilson (Scottish politician) (born 1963 as William L. Wilson), Scottish nationalist
• William Bauchop Wilson (1862-1934), a U.S. (Scottish-born) labor leader and political figure.
• William Lyne Wilson, a United States Postmaster General
• William E. Wilson (1870-1948), a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
• William W. Wilson, member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois
• William Wilber Wilfred Wilson, Canadian politician
• William Bauchop Wilson, the first US Secretary of Labor
• William Edward Wilson, member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana
• William H. Wilson(William Henry Wilson), member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
• William Wilson (1720-1796), British Member of Parliament for Ilchester 1761–176
• William Wallace Wilson Alberta politician

Sports

• William Wilson (aquatics), Scottish writer on swimming, and the inventor of water polo.
• Willie Wilson (baseball player), a MLB outfielder
• Bill Wilson (MLB catcher) (1867-1924)
• Bill Wilson (AL pitcher) (b. 1928)
• Bill Wilson (NL pitcher) (1942-1993)
• Mookie Wilson (b. William Hayward Wilson), a MLB outfielder
• Mutt Wilson (b. William Clarence Wilson), a MLB pitcher

Academics

• William L. Wilson (Rice University), professor at Rice University
• William Julius Wilson, a sociologist

Others

• William Wilson (architect) (1641—1710), an English architect, builder and sculptor.
• William Wilson (soldier) (1847-1895), noted for being one of only nineteen individuals to receive the Medal of Honor twice.
• William (Amos) Wilson (c. 1762-1821), a figure in the folklore of southeastern and south-central Pennsylvania in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries; often referred to as The Pennsylvania Hermit.
• Bill Wilson (convict), a man convicted of murdering two individuals who were later found alive
• Bill Wilson (pastor), president and founder of Metro Ministries International
• Bill W. (b. William Griffith Wilson), co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
• Edward Adrian Wilson (aka Bill Wilson), an Antarctic explorer
• William Hardy Wilson, a noted Australian architect, artist and author.
• William Wilson (architect), an architect, builder and sculptor from Sutton Coldfield
• Sir William James Erasmus Wilson, a physician and surgeon
• William A. Wilson, first US Ambassador to the Holy See
• William C. Wilson, General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene
• William Othello Wilson, member of the US Army's 9th Cavalry, and recipient of the Medal of Honor
• William Scott Wilson (b. 1944), a premier author and translator of samurai literature.
• Willie Wilson (minister), a Baptist minister and candidate for mayor of Washington, D.C.
• William Llewellyn Wilson, a conductor, musician, teacher and music educator from Baltimore

Fictional people

• "William Wilson (short story)", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe

[edit] See also

• Willson (name)