William Murray

William Murray or Bill Murray may refer to:

Nobility

• William Murray, 1st Earl of Dysart (1600?–1655), Scottish nobleman and whipping-boy to King Charles I of England
• William Murray, 2nd Lord Nairne (c. 1665–1726), Scottish peer and Jacobite
• William Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine (1689–1746), Jacobite
• William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705–1793), British jurist
• William Murray, 4th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield (1806–1898), British nobleman
• William Murray, 5th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield (1860–1906), British nobleman, Earl of Mansfield
• William Murray, 8th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield (born 1930), Scottish nobleman and Conservative politician

Sports

• Bill Murray (baseball) (1893–1943), American professional baseball infielder
• Bill Murray (footballer, born 1901), Scottish football player and manager (Sunderland AFC)
• Bill Murray (footballer, born 1904), Scottish footballer
• Billy Murray (boxer) (1892–1926), American boxer
• Billy Murray (baseball) (1864–1937), American baseball manager
• Billy Murray (footballer) (1922–1992), English footballer (Manchester City)
• W. H. Murray (William Hutchinson Murray, 1913–1996), Scottish mountain climber and writer
• William D. Murray (1908–1986), head football coach at University of Delaware from 1940 to 1950 and Duke University from 1951 to 1965
• William Murray (athlete) (1885–1925), British athlete who competed at the 1908 Olympic Games
• William Murray (rugby union) (born 1894), Scottish international rugby union player
• Willie Murray (born 1954), Scottish footballer who played in the 1974 Scottish League Cup Final

Politics

• William Murray (Australian politician) (1890–1980), New South Wales politician
• William Murray (Canadian politician) (1839–1898), 19th-century Canadian politician
• William Murray (Dumfriesshire MP) (1865–1923), British MP for Dumfriesshire, 1918–1922
• William Murray (New Brunswick politician) (1857–?), Canadian politician
• William Murray (Newcastle-under-Lyme MP) (1796–?), British MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1859–1865
• William Murray (New York politician) (1803–1875), U.S. Representative from New York
• William Archibald Murray (1832–1900), New Zealand politician
• William D. Murray (legislator), Wisconsin State Assembly member
• William D. (Bill) Murray, U.S. CIA officer
• William Francis Murray (1881–1918), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• William H. Murray (1869–1956), American politician from Oklahoma
• William Harvey Murray (born 1916), former political figure in British Columbia, Canada
• William J. Murray (New York) (c. 1884–1966), New York state senator 1937–1944
• William Vans Murray (1760–1803), U.S. Representative from Maryland

Arts and entertainment

• William Henry Murray (1790–1852), Scottish actor and theatre manager
• Billy Murray (singer) (1877–1954), Irish-American singer
• William Staite Murray (1881–1962), British studio potter
• William Murray (musician) (died 1998), Scottish drummer and photographer
• William B. Murray (born 1935), opera baritone
• Billy Murray (actor) (born 1941), English actor
• Bill Murray (born 1950), American actor
• William Murray (writer) (1926–2005), American writer of mystery novels
• Will Murray (born 1953), author and scholar of pulp fiction
• Bill Murray (cartoonist) (born 1955), American cartoonist

Religion

• William Henry Harrison Murray (1840–1904), American clergyman, author, and promoter of outdoor pursuits
• William J. Murray (born 1946), American Christian author and evangelist
• William Edward Murray (1920–2013), Australian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

Other

• William Murray (gardener) (1819–1901) South Australian pioneer gardener
• William Daniel Murray (1908–1994), U.S. federal judge
• William H. Murray (Medal of Honor) (1876–1923), American Medal of Honor recipient
• William S. Murray (1873–1942), American engineer
• William Robert Murray (1896–1990), New Zealand labourer, policeman and unionist

See also

• Billy Murray (disambiguation)
• Will Murray (disambiguation)