William Collins

William Collins may refer to:

Arts

William Collins (poet) (1721–1759), English poet
William Collins (painter) (1788–1847), English landscape artist
William Lucas Collins (1815–1887), English author and clergyman of the Church of England
William Wiehe Collins (1862–1951), English architectural and landscape genre painter
Billy Collins (born 1941), American poet
William P. Collins, author of works on the Bábí and Bahá’í Faiths, see Bahá'í Faith in Europe

William Collins (Worcester MP), English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1654 to 1659
William Collins (Warwick MP), Member of Parliament (MP) for Warwick 1837–52
William Collins (South African politician) (1803–1876), member Volksraad of the Orange Free State
William Collins (representative) (1818–1878), U.S. congressman from New York
William Whitehouse Collins (1853–1923), New Zealand Member of Parliament for Christchurch in the South Island
William Job Collins (1859–1946), British surgeon and Liberal Party politician
William A. Collins (born 1935), American politician, state representative and mayor from Norwalk, Connecticut

William Collins (publisher) (1789–1853), Scottish founder of the William Collins, Sons publishing house.
William Collins (Lord Provost) (1817–1895), Scottish temperance movement activist; son of publisher William Collins.
William Collins, Sons (est. 1819), Scottish publishing house, became part of HarperCollins in 1990, a subsidiary of News Corp.
William Collins (imprint), a non-fiction publishing brand launched by HarperCollins in 2014.

William Collins (cricketer) (1837–1876), Australian cricketer
William Collins (sportsman, born 1853) (1853–1934), played rugby for England and cricket for Wellington, New Zealand
William Collins (cricketer, born 1868) (1868–1942), English cricketer
William Collins (tennis), British tennis player from the 1920s and 30s, see 1930 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
William Collins (canoeist) (born 1932), Canadian canoer who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics
Bill Collins (athlete) born 1950, American sprinter
Billy Collins, Jr. (1961–1984), American professional boxer

William Collins (colonist) (1756–1819), English naval officer and early settler in Tasmania, Australia
Colonel William O. Collins, commandant of Fort Laramie, Wyoming; namesake of Fort Collins, Colorado and Camp Collins
William Collins (bishop) (1867–1911), Bishop of Gibraltar in the Church of England
William Henry Collins (1878–1937), Canadian geologist
William Floyd Collins (1887–1925), American cave explorer
William J. Collins (1896–1970), president of St. Ambrose University
Bootsy Collins (William Earl Collins, born 1951), American funk bassist, singer and songwriter
Mr. William Collins, a fictional character in the Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice