William Russell

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

In politics

William Russell (Australian politician) (1842–1912), Australian senator from South Australia
William Russell (New South Wales politician) (1807–1866), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and Council

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 (c. 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 (North Carolina), member of the Senate of the North Carolina General Assembly of 1777 to 1783, and of the House in 1784
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, and co-founder of the Yale University secret society Skull and Bones
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) (died 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 Russell (bishop of Sodor) (died 1374), Bishop over Man and the Isles from 1348 to 1374
William Russell (merchant) (1740–1818), Birmingham merchant and Unitarian
William Russell (bishop of North China) (1821–1879), Anglican bishop in China
William Thomas Russell (1863–1927), American Roman Catholic bishop of Charleston

Willie Russell (fl. 1920s), Scottish footballer
Bill Russell (born 1934), American basketball player
Bill Russell (baseball) (born 1948), shortstop, coach 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 Russell (fencer) (1896–1958), American Olympic fencer
William Russell (cricketer) (1866–1929), Australian-born English cricketer

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

William Russell (writer) (1741–1793), Scottish historical and miscellaneous writer
William Howard Russell (1820–1907), Irish reporter considered one of the first war correspondents
William Russell (educator) (1798–1873), American educator (born in Scotland)
William Fletcher Russell (1890–1956), president of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York
William W. Russell, United States Ambassador to Colombia, 1904–1905, and to Venezuela, 1905–1908
William D. Russell (historian) (born 1938), American historian and social activist
William Hamilton Russell (1856–1907), American architect
William Russell (physician) (1852–1940), Scottish pathologist and physician, see Russell bodies
Sir William Oldnall Russell (1785–1833), chief justice of Bengal and legal writer
William Carmichael Russell (1824–1905), Bengal Artillery officer

Lady William Russell (1793–1874), wife of Lord George William Russell and socialite