William Harris

William or Will or Willie Harris may refer to:

Politicians and political activists

William Harris (MP) (c. 1652–1709), English landowner and Member of Parliament
William Harris (born 1504), MP for Newport, Cornwall
William Harris (died 1556), MP for Maldon
William Alexander Harris (Kansas) (1841–1909), U.S. Representative from Kansas
William Alexander Harris (Virginia) (1805–1864), U.S. Representative from Virginia
William C. Harris (Illinois politician) (1921-2004), American politician
William J. Harris (1868–1932), U.S. Senator from Georgia
William Littleton Harris (1807–1868), Justice of the Mississippi Court of Errors and Appeals
William Harris (Australian civil rights leader) (1867–1931), Australian leader for Aboriginal civil rights

William Harris (American football) (born 1965), NFL player
William Harris (swimmer) (1897–1961), American swimmer and Olympic bronze medallist
William Harris (tennis) (born 1947), American tennis player
William Harris (cricketer, born 1861) (1861–1923), English cricketer
William Harris (cricketer, born 1864) (1864–1949), English cricketer
William Harris (cricketer, born 1883) (1883–1967), English cricketer
William Harris (footballer) (born 1890),Scottish footballer
Will Harris (born 1984), baseball player
Willie Harris (born 1978), baseball player

William Harris (academic) (1765–1829), president of Columbia University
William V. Harris (born 1938), professor of history
William Harris (Presbyterian minister) (1675?–1740), English divine
William Harris (priest) (1884–1956), Welsh priest and academic
William Logan Harris (1817–1887), Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
William Wadé Harris (c. 1860–1929), African evangelist
William Harris (historian) (1720–1770), English dissenting minister and historian

William Harris (colonist) (1757–1812), figure in the American Revolution
William Harris, 2nd Baron Harris (1782–1845), British soldier and peer
William Harris, American Civil War colonel, son of Ira Harris
William W. Harris (Medal of Honor) (1850–1878), Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Indian Wars
William Frederick Harris (1918–1950), Lt. Col, USMC. World War II POW and Korean War Navy Cross recipient

William Cornwallis Harris (1807–1848), English military engineer, artist and hunter
Sir William Gordon Harris (1912–2005), British civil engineer
William Snow Harris (1791–1867), invented a ship-borne lightning rod
William Harris, former director general of Science Foundation Ireland

William Harris (businessman) (c. 1988-present), Prominent Businessman and investor from Belmont Massachusetts
William Harris (beachcomber) (c. 1813–1889), British escaped convict and settler in pre-colonial Nauru
William Harris (theatrical producer) (1844–1916), American theatre producer and vaudevillian performer
William Harris (Tudor person) (1556–1616), English knight, landowner and incorporator in the third Virginia Company of London
William Harris (settler) (1610–1681), founding settler of Providence, Rhode Island
William Harris, 6th Earl of Malmesbury (1907–2000), British peer
W. A. Harris (born 1950), Canadian-born neuroscientist
William Critchlow Harris (1854–1913), Canadian architect
William C. Harris (police officer), Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 1856–1881
Sir William Henry Harris (1883–1973), English organist and composer
William Lewarne Harris, English composer and bard
William H. Harris (orthopaedic surgeon) (born 1927), American orthopaedic surgeon
William Laurel Harris (1870–1924), American muralist and editor
William Torrey Harris (1835–1909), United States Commissioner of Education, American educator, philosopher, lexicographer
William Harris, founder of the Ottawa Citizen newspaper
William Harris, Symbionese Liberation Army
William Bevan Harris, British-American comic actor, better known as Billy Bevan