William Anderson

William Anderson may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Bill Anderson (singer) (born 1937), American country music singer, songwriter and game show host
• Bill Anderson (producer) (1911–1997), American producer
• Wil Anderson (born 1974), Australian comedian
• Cat Anderson (William Alonzo Anderson, 1916–1981), American jazz trumpeter
• William Anderson (artist) (1757–1837), painter of marine and historical paintings
• William Anderson (guitarist) (born 1962), American classical guitarist and composer
• William Anderson (theatre) (1868–1940), Australian stage entrepreneur
• William M. Anderson (born 1948), film editor
• W. H. Anderson (1882–1955), Canadian composer, choir director, tenor, and voice teacher
• William West Anderson (born 1928), known as Adam West, American actor, best known for playing Batman from 1966 to 1968
• Will Anderson (talk show host), American conservative talk show host
• Will Anderson (singer) (born 1986), lead vocalist in the band Parachute

Writing

• William Anderson (American writer) (born 1952), American biographer, specialising in the Laura Ingalls Wilder times
• William Anderson (Scottish writer) (1805–1866), Scottish miscellaneous writer
• William Charles Anderson (1920–2003), American author
• William J. Anderson (1811–?), American slave and author

Law and politics

• William Anderson (Australian politician) (1828–1909), Scottish-born Victorian colonial politician, member for Villiers and Heytesbury
• William Anderson (Australian politician born 1853) (1853–1898), Victorian colonial politician for Creswick, and Windermere
• William Anderson (Tasmanian politician) (1904–1990), Australian politician from Tasmania
• William Anderson (Canadian politician born 1905) (1905–1961), member of Canadian House of Commons for Waterloo South electoral district
• William Anderson (naval officer) (1921–2007), United States Representative from Tennessee and commander of the first nuclear submarine
• William Anderson (Pennsylvania) (1762–1829), United States Congressman from Pennsylvania
• William Anderson (Canadian politician born 1822) (1822–1897), Canadian politician
• William A. Anderson (1873–1954), mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
• William Clayton Anderson (1826–1861), United States Representative from Kentucky
• William B. Anderson (1830–1901), United States Representative from Illinois
• William Coleman Anderson (1853–1902), United States Representative from Tennessee
• William Crawford Anderson (1877–1919), British socialist politician
• William Hamilton Anderson (1874–c. 1959), superintendent of the New York Anti-Saloon League
• William Marshall Anderson (1807–1881), American scholar, explorer and politician
• William Stafford Anderson (born 1889), politician in New Brunswick, Canada
• Bill Anderson (Ohio politician), former member of the Ohio House of Representatives
• William Alexander Anderson (1842–1930), Virginia lawyer and politician
• Bill Anderson (Iowa politician), Republican politician and legislator from the state of Iowa

Medicine

• William Anderson (collector) (1842–1900), British surgeon and collector of Japanese art
• William G. Anderson (born 1927), physician and social activist
• William Wallace Anderson, medical doctor and involved in architecture of rammed earth construction in South Carolina

Military

• Maurice Anderson (1908–1986), often known as Bill Anderson, British Army medical officer
• William Anderson (naval officer) (1921–2007), commander of the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, later a United States Representative from Tennessee
• William Anderson (RAAF officer) (1891–1975), Australian air marshal
• William Anderson (VC) (1885–1915), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
• William Anderson (1820–1848), British Army lieutenant with the 1st Bombay Fusiliers whose murder impacted the Second Anglo-Sikh War
• William Herbert Anderson (1881–1918), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
• William T. Anderson (1840–1864), American Civil War guerrilla commander, known as "Bloody Bill"
• William Anderson (Canadian Army officer) (1915–2000), Canadian general
• William Anderson (Medal of Honor) (1852–?), American sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
• William Y. Anderson (1921–2011), Swedish American fighter ace of World War II
• William C. Anderson (United States Air Force), Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Installations, Environment & Logistics) 2005–2008

Science and academics

• William Anderson (horticulturist) (1766–1846), Scottish horticulturist
• William Anderson (engineer) (1835–1898), British engineer and philanthropist
• William Anderson (naturalist) (1750–1778), naturalist on Captain Cook's third voyage (1776–1780), died aboard the Resolution
• William Anderson (political scientist) (1888–1975), professor at University of Minnesota, served on federal commissions
• William Caldwell Anderson (1804–1870), President of Miami University
• William French Anderson (born 1936), American geneticist and molecular biologist
• William Henry Anderson (1908–1997), American entomologist
• William James Anderson (1812–1873), Scottish physician who emigrated to Canada
• Eric Anderson (educator) (William Kinloch Anderson, born 1936), Provost of Eton College, 2000–2009

Sports

American football

• Bill Anderson (American football) (born 1936), American football player
• Bill Anderson (American football, born 1925) (1925–2013), American college football coach, head football coach at Howard Payne University
• Bill Anderson (American football, born 1947), American college football coach, head football coach at North Park University and Illinois College

Baseball

• Bill Anderson (1880s pitcher) (1865–1936), American Major League Baseball player
• Bill Anderson (1920s pitcher) (1895–1983), American Major League Baseball player

Cricket

• William Anderson (18th-century cricketer), mid-18th century English cricketer
• William Anderson (cricket umpire) (1910–1975), South African Test match umpire in two games
• William Anderson (cricketer, born 1859) (1859–1943), French Olympic silver medal-winning cricketer
• William Anderson (cricketer, born 1871) (1871–1948), English cricketer
• William Anderson (cricketer, born 1909) (1909–1975), English first class cricketer
• William Anderson (Scottish cricketer) (1894–1973), Scottish cricketer from Fife

Football (soccer)

• Bill Anderson (footballer), manager of Football League side Lincoln City, 1946–1965
• William Anderson (footballer), English footballer, 1883 FA Cup Final winner with Old Etonians
• William Anderson (Scottish footballer) (c. 1860–?), 1885 FA Cup Finalist with Queen's Park in 1884 and 1885 and Scotland international

Ice hockey

• Red Anderson (ice hockey) (Bill Anderson, 1912–1991), Canadian ice hockey player
• William Anderson (ice hockey) (1901–1983), British ice hockey player who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics

Other sports

• Bill Anderson (strongman) (born 1937), Scottish sportsman
• William Anderson (cyclist), Canadian Olympic cyclist

Religion

• William Anderson (died 1543), one of the Perth Martyrs
• William Anderson (bishop of Caledonia) (born 1950), Canadian Anglican bishop since 2001
• William Anderson (bishop of Salisbury) (1892–1972), Anglican Bishop of Croydon, of Portsmouth and of Salisbury, England
• William Anderson (minister) (1799–1873), Scottish theological writer and preacher
• William Anderson (missionary) (1769–1852), English-Anglican missionary to South Africa
• William F. Anderson (bishop) (1860–1944), American Methodist bishop

Other

• William P. Anderson (1851–1927), Canadian civil engineer
• William S. Anderson (born 1919), president and chairman of the National Cash Register Corp, 1972–1984
• Chief William Anderson, namesake of Anderson, Indiana
• William Anderson (bridge), Canadian actuary and developer of the 1-2-3 distributional point count in contract bridge

See also

• Bill Andersen (politician) (born 1936), 1988 Republican candidate from Tennessee for the U.S. Senate
• Bill Andersen (1924–2005), New Zealand communist and trade union leader
• Billy Anderson (disambiguation)
• Willie Anderson (disambiguation)