William Cooper

William Cooper may refer to:

Business

• William Cooper (accountant) (1826–1871), founder of Cooper Brothers
• William Cooper (businessman) (1761–1840), Canadian businessman
• William E. Cooper (Bill) (1921–2008), prominent businessman in Dallas, Texas

Government

• William B. Cooper (1771–1849), American farmer and politician
• William B. Cooper (NC politician) (1867–1959), lieutenant governor of North Carolina
• William C. Cooper (1832–1902), US congressman from Ohio
• William Cooper (judge) (1754–1809), father of James Fenimore Cooper and founder of Cooperstown, New York
• William Prentice Cooper (1895–1969), Tennessee governor
• William Raworth Cooper (1793–1856), US congressman from New Jersey

Literature and Arts

• William Cooper (novelist) (1910–2002), British novelist
• William Cooper Nell (1816–1874), African American abolitionist
• William Heaton Cooper (1903–1995), British landscape artist
• William T. Cooper (born 1934), Australian natural history illustrator
• Revd William Cooper (1824-1892), pseudonym of James Bertram, a Scottish pornography producer

Science

• William Cooper (conchologist) (1798–1864), nineteenth century U.S. conchologist
• William Skinner Cooper (1894–1978), American ecologist

Sports

• Bill Cooper (American football) (born 1939), professional football player for the San Francisco 49ers
• Bill Cooper (grappler) (born 1987), American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner
• William Cooper (cricketer) (1849–1939), Australian cricketer
• William Cooper (sailor) (1910−1968), Olympic gold medalist of 1932

Other fields

• Milton William Cooper (1943–2001), American writer, radio host, and political activist
• William Cooper (Aboriginal Australian) (1861–1941), aboriginal rights leader
• William Cooper (Puritan) (fl. 1653), chaplain to Elizabeth of Bohemia and ejected minister.
• William E. Cooper, president of the University of Richmond (1998–2007)

See also

• William Couper (disambiguation)