William Jackson

William Jackson may refer to:

In politics

William Jackson (fl.1601-1604), MP for Guildford (UK Parliament constituency) and Haslemere
William Jackson (Massachusetts) (1783–1855), US Congressman from Massachusetts
William Jackson (Saugus, Massachusetts), English-American pottery manufacturer and politician from Saugus, Massachusetts
William Jackson (secretary) (1759–1828), Secretary to the Philadelphia Convention and member of the U.S. Continental Army
William Jackson (Canadian politician) (1858–1938), Canadian Member of Parliament
William A. Jackson, a Black Dispatches spy during the American Civil War
William Harding Jackson (1901–1971), former United States National Security Advisor
William Humphreys Jackson (1839–1915), former Congressman from Maryland
William Purnell Jackson (1868–1939), former member of the United States Senate from Maryland
William S. Jackson (died 1932), New York State Attorney General, 1907–1908
William T. Jackson (1876–1933), former mayor of Toledo, Ohio
William Terry Jackson (1794–1882), U.S. Representative from New York
William W. Jackson, Wisconsin farmer and legislator
Sir William Jackson, 1st Baronet (1805–1876), British MP for Newcastle under Lyme and Derbyshire North
William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton (1840–1917), English politician, Member of Parliament for Leeds
William Jackson, 1st Baron Jackson (1893–1954), Member of Parliament for Brecon and Radnorshire, 1939–1945
William Jackson (New Zealand politician) (1832–1889), New Zealand politician

William Jackson (pirate), British pirate
William Jackson (VC) (1897–1959), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
William Hicks Jackson (1835–1903), Confederate general from Tennessee
Sir William Jackson (British Army officer) (1917–1999), British general, Governor of Gibraltar, military historian, and author
William Lowther "Mudwall" Jackson (1825–1890), Confederate general

William Jackson (curler) (1871–1955), Scottish winner of the first Olympic gold medal in curling, Chamonix, 1924
William Jackson (footballer) (1876–1954), Newton Heath F.C., Burnley F.C. and Wales international footballer
William Jackson (Negro leagues) (fl. 1890–1906), pitcher and outfielder for early minor leagues and Negro leagues
Billy Jackson (bowls) (1970-), English winner of World Indoor Bowls Singles in 2009

Pepper LaBeija (1948–2003), head of the House of LaBeija in New York's ball culture of the 1980s
William Jackson (bishop) (1751–1815), bishop of Oxford
William Jackson (Scottish composer) (born 1955), Scottish composer
William Henry Jackson (1843–1942), early photographer of the American West
William Jackson (gangster) (1901–1961), loan shark, enforcer and murder victim
William K. Jackson, architect and co-founder of KBJ Architects
William Jackson (engineer) (1848–1910), Boston, Massachusetts city engineer, 1885–1910
William Jackson (organist born 1730) (1730–1803), referred to as Jackson of Exeter, English organist and composer
William Jackson (organist born 1815) (1815–1866), English organist and composer
William Jackson (priest) (1838–1931), Rector of Exeter College, Oxford
William Jackson (Canadian administrator), Canadian administrator
William Walrond Jackson (1810–1895), Bishop of Antigua, 1860–1879
William Jackson Food Group, a food manufacturer in the United Kingdom