William Phillips

William Phillips may refer to:

• William Phillips (diplomat) (1878–1968), U.S. diplomat, first United States ambassador to Canada
• William A. Phillips (1824–1893), American lawyer and politician
• William Edward Phillips (fl. 1810–1826), Governor of Penang
• William Phillips Sr. (1722–1804), Boston merchant and political activist in the revolutionary period
• William Phillips, Jr. (1750–1827), Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1812–1823
• William M. Phillips (1900–1962), Philadelphia city councilman

• William Phillips (basketball) (born 1979), American basketball player
• William Phillips (umpire) (born 1876), cricketer and test match umpire
• William David Phillips (1855–1918), Wales international rugby union player

• William Daniel Phillips (born 1948), Nobel laureate physicist specializing in laser cooling of atoms
• William Dale Phillips (1925–1993), American chemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences
• William Phillips (geologist) (1775–1828), British mineralogist who founded the Geological Society of London
• William Phillips (botanist) (1822–1905), English botanist and antiquary
• William Phillips (economist) (1914–1975), New Zealander known for the Phillips curve and Moniac hydraulic computer

• William Phillips (1864–1943), American character actor known as Tully Marshall
• William Phillips (musician), Grammy-winning songwriter
• William Phillips (director), Canadian film-maker who wrote and directed the film Gunless
• William Phillips (editor) (1907–2002), American editor and co-founder of Partisan Review
• William T. Phillips (1863–1937), American author

• William Phillips, Sr. (1722–1804), Boston merchant
• 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 (gunman) (c. 1947–2007), gunman responsible for a standoff with police at the Johnson Space Center, 2007