William Wright

William, Will or Bill Wright may refer to:

• William Wright (1829–1898), real name of Dan DeQuille, American author, newspaperman, and humorist
• William Wright (author) (1930–2016), American author of Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals
• William Wright (poet) (born 1782), Scottish poet
• William Aldis Wright (1831–1914), English writer and editor

• Bill Wright (producer), creator of the British quiz show Mastermind
• Will Wright (actor) (1894–1962), American character actor in film and TV
• William Wright (actor) (1911–1949), American actor
• Will Wright (game designer) (born 1960), American computer game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis
• William Lord Wright (1879–1947), American screenwriter and film producer

• William Wright (16th century MP) for City of York
• William Wright (Australian politician) (1816-1877), British Army officer and politician in colonial Victoria, member of the Victorian Legislative Council
• William Wright (United States politician) (1794–1866), mayor of Newark, New Jersey and US Senator
• William Wright (Canadian politician) (1853–1926), Canadian Member of Parliament
• William Wright (Scottish politician) (1862–1931), Scottish politician, Member of Parliament for Rutherglen, 1922–1931
• William Wright (Northern Ireland politician) (born 1925), Northern Irish business owner and politician
• William Ambrose Wright (1844–1929), soldier, statesman, lawyer, and devoted Christian. 50-year Georgia Comptroller General
• William B. Wright (1806–1868), Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, 1868
• William Bacon Wright (1830–1895), Confederate politician
• William C. Wright (1866–1933), U.S. Representative from Georgia
• William McKay Wright (1840–1882), Quebec lawyer and political figure
• William W. Wright (1813–1889), New York politician and Erie Canal Commissioner

• William Wright (priest) (1562–1639), English Roman Catholic missionary priest
• William Wright (missionary) (1837–1899), Irish missionary and author of The Empire of the Hittites
• William Wright (Canadian bishop) (1904–1990), Archbishop of Ontario
• William Wright (Australian bishop) (born 1952), Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle
• William Burnet Wright (1836-1924), American clergyman

• William Wright (botanist) (1735–1819), Scottish physician and botanist
• William Wright (surgeon) (1773–1860), aural surgeon in England
• William Barton Wright (1828–1915), British railway engineer
• William Hammond Wright (1871–1959), American astronomer
• William Wright (engineer), American engineer who contributed to the development of the Corliss steam engine
• Willy Wright (1917–2010), British civil servant and geologist

• Bill Wright (catcher), American baseball catcher for the Washington Nationals in 1887
• Bill Wright (coach), Tennessee Volunteers baseball head coach 1963−1981
• Bill Wright (outfielder) (1914–1996), American baseball outfielder in the Negro leagues
• Will Wright (cyclist) (born 1973), Welsh cyclist
• William Wright (cricketer) (1909–1988), English cricketer
• William Wright (footballer) (born 1900), footballer for Exeter City and Huddersfield Town
• Billy Wright (footballer, born 1924) (1924–1994), England and Wolverhampton Wanderers footballer
• Bill Wright (rugby union) (1905—1971), New Zealand rugby union player

• William Wright (aviator) (1895–1990), English aviator during World War I
• William Wright (explorer), member of Australian Burke and Wills expedition
• William Wright (orientalist) (1830–1889), British Orientalist, grammarian and researcher of Syriac and Arabic
• William Wright (privateer) (fl. 1675–1682), English privateer in French service and later buccaneer who raided Spanish towns in the late 1600s
• William Henry Wright (1876–1951), Canadian prospector and publisher
• William M. Wright (1863–1943), Lieutenant General in the United States Army
• William Robert Wright (1935–2012), American lawyer and Mormon historian