William Brown (or Browne) may refer to (some of whom were also called 'Bill'):

Politicians, jurists, and diplomats

• William Brown (congressman) (1779–1833), U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1819–1821
• William J. Brown (Indiana) (1805–1857), U.S. Representative from Indiana
• William G. Brown, Sr. (1800–1884), U.S. Representative from Virginia and West Virginia
• William Brown (New Zealand), (1809–1898), member of 1st New Zealand Parliament
• William Gay Brown, Jr. (1856–1916), U.S. Representative from West Virginia, son of William G. Brown
• William M. Browne (1827–1883), American cabinet member of Confederate States Army
• William Wallace Brown (1836–1926), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
• William R. Brown (1840–1916), U.S. Representative from Kansas
• William M. Brown (1850–1915), U.S. Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, electee to the U.S. House of Representatives
• William Jethro Brown (1868–1930), Australian jurist and professor of law
• William Brown (Manitoba politician), Canadian politician in Manitoba, 1922–1927
• William Brown (UK politician) (1894–1960), UK Member of Parliament for Rugby 1942–1950
• William John Brown (1894–1960), UK politician and Member of Parliament
• William Robson Brown (1900–1975), UK Conservative politician
• William Brown (Australian politician) (1920– ), Australian Senator
• William Holmes Brown, (1929–2001) U.S. House of Representatives Parliamentarian, 1974–1994
• William Andreas Brown (1930–), U.S. Ambassador to Israel, 1988–1992
• William J. Brown, Ohio Attorney General, elected 1970
• William Stuart Brown (1952–2004), Australian diplomat and convicted child molester

Clergymen or theologians

• William Laurence Brown (1755–1830), Scottish divine (theologian)
• William Brown (clergyman) (1766–1835), Scottish clergyman and Hebraist
• William Montgomery Brown (1818–1937), Episcopalian bishop and Communist author
• William E. Brown, first African-American Archbishop in the state of Virginia

Military people

• William Brown (soldier) (c. 1755–1808), American Revolutionary War soldier
• William Brown (Royal Navy officer) (1764–1814), British Royal Navy admiral
• William Brown (admiral) (or Guillermo Brown) (1777–1857), Irish-Argentine Navy admiral
• William Brown (sailor) (birth name unknown), Black woman who served in the Royal Navy 1804–1816, disguised as a man
• William H. Brown (1836–1896), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
• Major William D. Browne, U.S. Army officer, famous for re-discovering Nazi membership files in 1945
• William Maurice Brown (1910–1975), Lt. Colonel; first principal of Faujdarhat Cadet College

Sportspeople

• William Brown (footballer) (1909–1996), English football (soccer) player
• William Brown (footballer born 1865), English football (soccer) player
• William Brown (tennis), pro tennis player from the early 1970s
• William Brown (Tasmanian cricketer), an Enligh born cricket who played first-class cricket for Tasmania.

Others

• William Browne (1590?–1645?), English poet
• William Hill Brown (1765–1793), American novelist
• William George Browne (1768–1813), British traveller
• Sir William Brown, 1st Baronet of Astrop (1784–1864), British merchant and banker
• William Phineas Browne (1804–1869), American lawyer and coal mining pioneer
• William Wells Brown (1814–1884), African American writer and abolitionist
• William D. Brown, (1813–1868), founder of Omaha, Nebraska
• William Slater Brown (1897–1997), friend of poet E. E. Cummings; the character "B." in Cumming's memoir/novel The Enormous Room
• William Brown (bridge designer) (1928–2005), English structural engineer, bridge designer
• William C. Brown (1916–1999), American electrical engineer
• William E. Brown (academic), president of Cedarville University
• William Arthur Brown, (born 1945), academic (industrial relations), Master of Darwin College, Cambridge

Other related

• William Brown (fictional boy), fictional schoolboy character from Just William
• William Brown (ship), American ship which struck an iceberg and sank on April 19, 1841 while traveling between Liverpool and her home port of Philadelphia
• William Brown Library and Museum, historic building in Liverpool, England

See also

• Willie Brown (disambiguation)
• Will Brown (disambiguation)
• Bill Brown (disambiguation)
• Billy Brown (disambiguation)

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