William Wright

William Aldis Wright (1831–1914), English editor, literary executor of Edward FitzGerald
William Garrett Wright (born 1979), American poet and editor
William Wright (poet) (1782–?), Scottish poet
William Lord Wright (1879–1947), American screenwriter and film producer
William Wright (actor) (1911–1949), American film actor in the 1940s
William Wright (author) (1930–2016), American non-fiction writer

William Wierman Wright (1824–1882), American civil engineer and Civil War officer for U.S. Military Railroads
William P. Wright (1846–1933), American Civil War officer
Sir William Purvis Wright (1846–1910), Royal Marines officer
William M. Wright (1863–1943), lieutenant general in the United States Army
William Wright (Indian civil servant) (1895–1990), British World War I flying ace
William Wright (Medal of Honor) (1835–?), Medal of Honor recipient

William Wright (New Jersey politician) (1794–1866), mayor of Newark, New Jersey and U.S. Senator
William W. Wright (1813–1889), New York politician and Erie Canal Commissioner
William Bacon Wright (1830–1895), Confederate politician
William Ambrose Wright (1844–1929), Georgia state comptroller
William C. Wright (1866–1933), U.S. Representative from Georgia

William Wright (16th century MP), MP for the City of York (1515) and lord mayor of York (1518–1519)
William Wright (Australian politician) (1816–1877), British Army officer and politician in colonial Victoria
William McKay Wright (1840–1882), Canadian Member of Parliament, Pontiac
William Wright (Canadian politician) (1853–1926), Canadian Member of Parliament, Muskoka
William Wright (Scottish politician) (1862–1931), Member of Parliament for Rutherglen, 1922–1931
Sir William Wright (businessman) (1925–2022), Northern Irish business owner and Unionist politician

William Wright (English priest) (1563–1639), English Catholic missionary priest
William Burnet Wright (1836–1924), Congregational clergyman from Ohio
William Wright (missionary) (1837–1899), Irish missionary in Damascus
William Wright (Canadian bishop) (1904–1990), Canadian Anglican bishop
William Godsell Wright (1904–1973), Episcopal prelate who served as Bishop of Nevada
William Wright (Australian bishop) (1952–2021), bishop of Maitland-Newcastle

William Wright (botanist) (1735–1819), Scottish physician and botanist
William Wright (surgeon) (1773–1860), English aural surgeon
William Barton Wright (1828–1915), British railway engineer
William Hammond Wright (1871–1959), American astronomer
William Wright (engineer) (c. 1880), American railway engineer

William Wright (cricketer, born 1841) (1841–1916), English cricketer
William Wright (cricketer, born 1909) (1909–1988), English cricketer
William Wright (footballer) (1893–1945), English footballer for Exeter City and Huddersfield Town
Will Wright (footballer) (born 1997), English football defender
Will Wright (footballer, born 2008), English football attacker

Bob Wright (author) (1935–2012), American author who co-authored David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, a biography about Mormon leader David O. McKay
William Wright (privateer) (fl. 1675–1682), English privateer and buccaneer
William B. Wright (1806–1868), justice of the New York Supreme Court
William Wright (orientalist) (1830–1889), professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge
William Henry Wright (1876–1951), Canadian prospector, founder of The Globe and Mail
William Wright (master), English academic
William Wright (journalist), founder of the London-based think tank New Financial
William James Wright (1903–1994), Scottish farmer and agriculturalist

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