William Phillips
William Phillips may refer to:
Politics
- William Phillips (diplomat) (1878–1968), U.S. diplomat, first United States ambassador to Canada
- William A. Phillips (1824–1893), American lawyer and politician
- William Edward Phillips (fl. 1810–1826), Governor of Penang
- William Phillips, Jr. (1750–1827), Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1812–1823
Sports
- William Phillips (basketball) (born 1979), American basketball player
- William Phillips (umpire) (born 1876), cricketer and test match umpire
- William David Phillips (1855–1918), Wales international rugby union player
Science and technology
- William Daniel Phillips (born 1948), Nobel laureate physicist specializing in laser cooling of atoms
- William Dale Phillips (1925–1993), American chemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences
- William Phillips (geologist) (1775–1828), British mineralogist who founded the Geological Society of London
- William Phillips (botanist) (1822–1905), English botanist and antiquary
- William Phillips (economist) (1914–1975), New Zealander known for the Phillips curve and Moniac hydraulic computer
Arts and media
- William Phillips (1864–1943), American character actor known as Tully Marshall
- William Phillips (musician), Grammy-winning songwriter
- William Phillips (director), Canadian film-maker who wrote and directed the film Gunless
- William Phillips (editor) (1907–2002), American editor and co-founder of Partisan Review
- William T. Phillips (1863–1937), American author
Others
- William Phillips, Sr. (1722–1804), Boston merchant
- William Phillips (British Army officer) (1731–1781), artilleryman and general officer in the British Army who served as a major-general in the American Revolutionary War
- William Phillips (gunman) (c. 1947–2007), gunman responsible for a standoff with police at the Johnson Space Center, 2007
See also
- William Philipps (disambiguation)
- Bill Phillips (disambiguation)
- William Philipps, Welsh MP
- William Philipps (MP for Pembrokeshire), see Pembrokeshire (UK Parliament constituency)
- William Phylip (1590–1670), Welsh poet
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