William Jones

William Jones may refer to:

Academics and authors

• William Jones (mathematician) (1675–1749), Welsh mathematician who proposed the use of the symbol π
• Sir William Jones (philologist) (1746–1794), English philologist who proposed a relationship among Indo-European languages
• William Jones (anthropologist) (1871–1909), Native American specialist in Algonquian languages
• William Jones (Welsh radical) (1726–1795), Welsh poet, antiquary and radical
• W. S. Jones (1920–2007), Welsh language writer
• William Jones (college principal) (1676–1725), Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, 1720–1725

Military figures

• William E. Jones (1824–1864), Confederate cavalry general
• William Jones (VC) (1839–1913), British Army soldier and Victoria Cross recipient
• William H. Jones (1842–1911), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
• William K. Jones (1916–1998), United States Marine Corps lieutenant general
• William A. Jones, III (1922–1969), United States Air Force officer and Medal of Honor recipient
• William Gore Jones (1826–1888), British admiral

Political figures

• William Jones (judge) (1566–1640), Welsh judge and English Parliament MP
• William Jones (Parliamentarian), Welsh lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1647 and 1648
• William Jones (of Treowen), English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614
• William Jones (law-officer) (1631–1682), English lawyer and politician
• William Jones (governor) (1753–1822), Governor of Rhode Island, 1811–1817
• William Jones (statesman) (1760–1831), fourth United States Secretary of the Navy and US Representative from Pennsylvania
• William Theopilus Jones (1842–1882), Delegate to the US Congress from the Territory of Wyoming, 1871–1873
• William Atkinson Jones (1849–1918), US Representative from Virginia, 1891–1918
• William Carey Jones (1855–1927), US Representative from Washington, 1897–1899
• William Jones (Liberal politician) (1860–1915), British Liberal politician
• William Kennedy Jones (1865–1921), British Member of Parliament for Hornsey, 1916–1921
• William Jones (New Zealand) (1868–1953), New Zealand politician
• William W. Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio, 1871–1875 and 1877-1879
• William Jones (Chartist) (1809–1873), political Radical and Chartist
• William Moseley Jones (1905–1988), Democratic politician in the California State Assembly
• William Nathaniel Jones (1858–1934), Welsh Liberal politician, businessman and soldier
• William Elwyn Edwards Jones, British Member of Parliament for Caernarfon and Conwy

Religious figures

• William Jones (clergyman) (1755–1821), Welsh clergyman
• William Jones (ecclesiastic) (1726–1800), British clergyman and author
• Rev. William Augustus Jones, Jr. (1934–2006), African American minister and civil rights leader
• William Basil Jones (1822–1897), bishop of St David's
• William Edward Jones (1897–1974), Anglican priest
• William Stanton Jones (1866–1951), Anglican bishop
• William West Jones (1838–1908), second Bishop and first Archbishop of Cape Town

Sportsmen

• William P. Jones (1870–1953), Druids F.C. and Wales international footballer
• William Roberts Jones (1870–1938), Aberystwyth F.C. and Wales international footballer
• William Jones (English footballer born 1876), Bristol City F.C., Tottenham Hotspur F.C. and England international footballer
• William Jones (Welsh footballer born 1876) (1876–1918), West Ham United F.C. and Wales international footballer
• William Lot Jones (1882–1941), Manchester City F.C. and Wales international footballer
• Renato William Jones (1906–1981), popularizer of basketball in Europe & Asia and a founding father of FIBA
• William Gorilla Jones (1906–1982), American boxer boxing champion, world Middleweight champion
• William Jones (English footballer) (fl. 1930s), English footballer with Gillingham F.C.
• William Morris Jones (footballer) (1919–1993), English footballer with Port Vale F.C., Swindon Town F.C. and others
• William Jones (wrestler) (born 1969), American professional wrestler, best known under the ring name "Chilly Willy"
• William Jones (canoer) (born 1931), Australian sprint canoer
• William Jones (rower), Uruguayan rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics
• William Jones (cricketer, born 1990), Australian-born English cricketer
• Bert Jones (rugby) (William Herbert Jones, 1906–1982), rugby union and rugby league football of the 1930s for Wales (RU), Llanelli, and St. Helens (RL)

Others

• William Jones (haberdasher) (died 1615), haberdasher, philanthropist and founder of Monmouth School, Wales
• Sir William Jones (optician) (1763–1831), English optician and scientific instrument maker
• William Jones (convict) (1827–1871), Australian colony ex-convict school teacher
• William Jones (novel), a Welsh language novel written by T. Rowland Hughes in 1944
• W. D. Jones (1916–1974), criminal who travelled with Bonnie and Clyde
• William Jones (gangster), New York City criminal
• William Ernest Jones (1895–1973), British trade union leader
• William Giles Jones (1808–1883), U.S. federal judge
• William Blakely Jones (1907–1979), United States federal judge
• William Corbett Jones, American pianist
• William Ifor Jones (1900–1988), Welsh conductor and organist
• William James Jones (born 1972), American actor
• William Todd-Jones, British puppet designer and performer
• William Jones (naturalist) (1745–1818), English naturalist and entomologist
• William Eifion Jones (1925-2004), Welsh marine botanist

See also

• Bill Jones (disambiguation)
• Billy Jones (disambiguation)
• Will Jones (disambiguation)
• Willie Jones (disambiguation)