William Wright
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William Wright or Bill Wright may refer to:
- William Wright (1829-1898), the real name of Dan DeQuille, American author, newspaperman, and humorist
- Will Wright (actor) (1894-1962), American character actor in film and TV
- Will Wright (game designer), an American computer game designer and co-founder of the game development company, Maxis
- Will Wright (cyclist) (born 1973), Welsh cyclist
- William Wright (author), author of Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals
- William Wright (botanist) (1735-1819), Scottish physician and botanist
- William Wright (Canadian politician) (1853-1926), Canadian Member of Parliament
- William Wright (Orientalist) (1830-1889)
- William Wright (poet) (1782-??), Scottish poet
- William Wright (politician) (1794-1866), mayor of Newark, New Jersey and US Senator,
- William Wright (privateer), English privateer in French service and later buccaneer who raided Spanish towns in the late 1600s
- William Wright (Labour politician) (1862–1931), Scottish politician, Member of Parliament for Rutherglen 1922–1931
- William Aldis Wright (1831-1914), an English writer and editor,
- William Ambrose Wright (1844-1929), soldier, statesman, lawyer, and devoted Christian. 50-year Georgia Comptroller General
- William Hammond Wright (1871-1959),an American astronomer
- William Henry Wright (1876–1951), Canadian prospector and publisher
- William C. Wright (1866-1933),a U.S. Representative from Georgia
- Father William Wright, English Roman Catholic missionary priest.