William Phillips
William Phillips may refer to:
- William Phillips (British Army officer) (1731–1781), artilleryman and general officer in the British Army who served as a major-general in the American Revolutionary War
- William Phillips (geologist) (1775–1828) British mineralogist who founded the Geological Society of London
- William Phillips (diplomat) (1878–1968), U.S. diplomat, first United States ambassador to Canada
- William Phillips (director) (contemporary), Canadian filmmaker who wrote and directed the film Gunless
- William Phillips (economist) (1914–1975), New Zealander known for the Phillips curve and Moniac hydraulic computer
- William Phillips (editor) (1907–2002), American editor and co-founder of Partisan Review
- William A. Phillips (1824–1893), American lawyer and politician
- William Daniel Phillips (born 1948), Nobel Prize-winning physicist specializing in laser cooling of atoms
- William David Phillips (1855–1918), Wales international rugby union player
- William Edward Phillips (fl. 1810–1826), Governor of Penang
- William T. Phillips (1863–1937), American author
- William Phillips (gunman) (c. 1947–2007), gunman responsible for a standoff with police at the Johnson Space Center on April 20, 2007
- William Phillips, Jr. (1750–1827), Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1812 to 1823
- William Warren Phillips (born 1979), American basketball player
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