WJ
The basics
Quick facts
Intro
Rector of Exeter College, Oxford
A.K.A.
William Walrond Jackson
Gender:
Male
Places:
Is:
Work field:
Birth:
1838
Death:
1931
The details
Biography
Introduction
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
Military
- 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
Sports
- William Jackson III, American football player
- 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) (born 1970), English winner of World Indoor Bowls Singles in 2009
In fiction
- Billy Jackson (EastEnders), fictional character