William Russell

William, Willy or Bill Russell (or other variants) may refer to:

Business

William Russell (merchant) (1740–1818), English businessman
William Hepburn Russell (1812–1872), American businessman, founder of the Pony Express
William Greeneberry Russell (1818–1887), American prospector and miner

William Russell (educator) (1798–1873), American teacher born in Scotland
William Fletcher Russell (1890–1956), president of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York
William D. Russell (historian) (born 1938), American history professor

William Russell (writer) (1741–1793), Scottish historical and miscellaneous writer
William Russell (organist) (1777–1813), organist and composer
William Clark Russell (1844–1911), writer of nautical novels
William Russell (American actor) (1884–1929), American actor of stage and screen
William D. Russell (director) (1908–1968), American film and television director
William Russell (actor) (born 1924), British actor
Willy Russell (born 1947), British playwright, lyricist and composer
Bill Russell (composer) (1905–1992), American music historian and modernist composer
Bill Russell (lyricist) (born 1949), Broadway lyricist

William Russell (knight) (1257–1311), holder of a moiety of the feudal barony of North Cadbury, Somerset
William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh (died 1613), English military commander
Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Chippenham (died 1654), English MP for Windsor
Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Wytley (1602–1669), English MP for Worcestershire
William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford (1616–1700), British peer and soldier
William Russell, Lord Russell (1639–1683), English politician

Lord William Russell (1767–1840), MP best known as a murder victim
Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Charlton Park (1773–1839), British baronet
William Congreve Russell (1778–1850), English MP and High Sheriff of Worcestershire
William Russell (1798–1850), British Member of Parliament (MP) for Saltash, Bletchingley and County Durham
William Russell, 8th Duke of Bedford (1809–1872), member of the United Kingdom Parliament
Sir William Russell, 2nd Baronet (1822–1892), MP for Dover, 1857–1859
William Russell (Bolton MP) (1859–1937), Member of Parliament for Bolton, 1922–1923

William Russell (Virginia) (1735–1793), Virginia frontier soldier and legislator, father of William Russell of Kentucky
William Russell (Kentucky) (1758–1825), American soldier, pioneer, and politician
William Russell (Ohio politician) (1782–1845), U.S. Representative from Ohio
William Huntington Russell (1809–1885), U.S. businessman, educator, and politician from Connecticut
William Fiero Russell (1812–1896), American congressman from New York
William A. Russell (New York) (fl. 1850s), New York politician
William Russell (governor) (1857–1896), governor of Massachusetts between 1891 and 1894
William Hepburn Russell (baseball) (1857–1911), lawyer, politician and owner of the Boston Braves baseball team
William A. Russell (1831–1899), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
William F. Russell (Florida politician) (1805–?), Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
William T. Russell, lieutenant colonel and political candidate
William W. Russell, United States Ambassador to Colombia, 1904–1905, and to Venezuela, 1905–1908

William Russell (New South Wales politician) (1807–1866), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
William Russell (New Zealand politician) (1838–1913), Member of Parliament
William Russell (Australian politician) (1842–1912), Australian senator from South Australia

William Russell (bishop of North China) (1821–1879), Anglican bishop in China
William Russell (bishop of Sodor) (died 1374), Bishop over Man and the Isles from 1348 to 1374
William Thomas Russell (1863–1927), American Roman Catholic bishop of Charleston

Bill Russell (born 1934), American basketball player
Bill Russell (baseball) (born 1948), shortstop and manager in Major League Baseball
Billy Russell (footballer, born 1935), England amateur international footballer
Billy Russell (footballer, born 1959), footballer and manager of Hull City
William Eric Russell (born 1936), English cricketer
William Russell (cricketer) (1866–1929), Australian-born English cricketer
William Russell (fencer) (1896–1958), American Olympic fencer
Willie Russell (fl. 1920s), Scottish footballer

William Oldnall Russell (1785–1833), chief justice of Bengal
Lady William Russell (1793–1874), wife of Lord George William Russell and socialite
William Carmichael Russell (1824–1905), Bengal Artillery officer
William Howard Russell (1820–1907), Irish reporter considered one of the first modern war correspondents
William Hamilton Russell (1856–1907), American architect