William Harris
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William or Will or Willie Harris may refer to:
Politicians and political activists
- William Harris (MP) (c. 1652–1709), English landowner and Member of Parliament
- William Harris (born 1504), MP for Newport, Cornwall
- William Harris (died 1556), MP for Maldon
- William Alexander Harris (Kansas) (1841–1909), U.S. Representative from Kansas
- William Alexander Harris (Virginia) (1805–1864), U.S. Representative from Virginia
- William J. Harris (1868–1932), U.S. Senator from Georgia
- William Littleton Harris (1807–1868), Justice of the Mississippi Court of Errors and Appeals
- William Harris (Australian civil rights leader) (1867–1931), Australian leader for Aboriginal civil rights
Sportsmen
- William Harris (American football) (born 1965), NFL player
- William Harris (swimmer) (1897–1961), American swimmer and Olympic bronze medallist
- William Harris (tennis) (born 1947), American tennis player
- William Harris (cricketer, born 1861) (1861–1923), English cricketer
- William Harris (cricketer, born 1864) (1864–1949), English cricketer
- William Harris (cricketer, born 1883) (1883–1967), English cricketer
- William Harris (footballer) (born 1890),Scottish footballer
- Will Harris (born 1984), baseball player
- Willie Harris (born 1978), baseball player
Academics and religious figures
- William Harris (academic) (1765–1829), president of Columbia University
- William V. Harris (born 1938), professor of history
- William Harris (Presbyterian minister) (1675?–1740), English divine
- William Harris (priest) (1884–1956), Welsh priest and academic
- William Logan Harris (1817–1887), Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
- William Wadé Harris (c. 1860–1929), African evangelist
- William Harris (historian) (1720–1770), English dissenting minister and historian
Soldiers
- William Harris (colonist) (1757–1812), figure in the American Revolution
- William Harris, 2nd Baron Harris (1782–1845), British soldier and peer
- William Harris, American Civil War colonel, son of Ira Harris
- William W. Harris (Medal of Honor) (1850–1878), Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Indian Wars
- William Frederick Harris, (1918-1950), Lt. Col, USMC. World War II POW and Korean War Navy Cross recipient.
Engineers, inventors and scientists
- William Cornwallis Harris (1807–1848), English military engineer, artist and hunter
- Sir William Gordon Harris (1912–2005), British civil engineer
- William Snow Harris (1791–1867), invented a ship-borne lightning rod
- William Harris, former director general of Science Foundation Ireland
Others
- William Harris (beachcomber) (c. 1813–1889), British escaped convict and settler in pre-colonial Nauru
- William Harris (theatrical producer) (1844–1916), American theatre producer and vaudevillian performer
- William Harris (Tudor person) (1556–1616), English knight, landowner and incorporator in the third Virginia Company of London
- William Harris (settler) (1610–1681), founding settler of Providence, Rhode Island
- William Harris, 6th Earl of Malmesbury (1907–2000), British peer
- W. A. Harris (born 1950), Canadian-born neuroscientist
- William Critchlow Harris (1854–1913), Canadian architect
- William C. Harris (police officer), Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 1856–1881
- Sir William Henry Harris (1883–1973), English organist and composer
- William Lewarne Harris, English composer and bard
- William H. Harris (orthopaedic surgeon) (born 1927), American orthopaedic surgeon
- William Laurel Harris (1870–1924), American muralist and editor
- William Torrey Harris (1835–1909), United States Commissioner of Education, American educator, philosopher, lexicographer
- William Harris, founder of the Ottawa Citizen newspaper
- William Harris, Symbionese Liberation Army
- William Bevan Harris, British-American comic actor, better known as Billy Bevan
See also
- Bill Harris (disambiguation)
- Will Harries (born 1987), Welsh rugby union player
- William H. Harries (1843–1921), representative from Minnesota
- William Hamlyn-Harris (born 1978), Australian javelin thrower
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