William Davies

William, Bill or Billy Davies may refer to:

People

Politicians

• William Davies (Georgia) (1775–1829), Georgia-based politician and lawyer
• William Davies (MP) (1821–1895), British Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire, 1880–1892
• William Gwynne Davies (1916–1999), trade unionist and politician in Saskatchewan, Canada
• William T. Davies (1831–1912), Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, United States, 1887–1891
• Sir William Howell Davies (1851–1932), British Member of Parliament for Bristol South, 1906–1922
• William Thomas Frederick Davies (1860–1947), South African surgeon, army officer and politician
• William Rees Morgan Davies (1863–1939), British Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire, 1892–1898
• Rupert Davies (Canadian politician) (William Rupert Davies, 1879–1967), Canadian author, newspaper publisher and Senator
• Billy Davies (politician) (1884–1956), Welsh-born Australian member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and the Australian Parliament
• William Davies (New South Wales politician) (1824–1890), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

Sportsmen

• William Davies (footballer, born 1855) (1855–1916), Oswestry F.C. and Wales international footballer
• William Davies (footballer, born 1882) (1882–1966), Wrexham F.C., Blackburn Rovers F.C. and Wales international footballer
• William Davies (footballer, born 1884) (1884–1954), footballer for Stoke
• William Davies (sport shooter) (1881-1942), Canadian Olympic sports shooter
• Bill Davies (rugby league) (1916–2002), rugby league footballer of the 1940s for Wales, and Huddersfield
• William Davies (rugby) (1890–1967), rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1910s and '20s
• Bill Davies (Canadian football) (1916–1990), Canadian football player
• Bill Davies (cricketer, born 1906) (1906–1971), Welsh cricketer
• Bill Davies (cricketer, born 1901), Welsh cricketer
• Bill L. Davies (1883–1959), Australian rules footballer
• Billy Davies (rugby), rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1930s
• Billy Davies (Welsh footballer) (1883–?), Crystal Palace F.C., West Bromwich Albion F.C. and Wales international footballer
• Billy Davies (born 1964), Scottish footballer and manager
• Dai Davies (footballer born 1948) (William David Davies), Welsh goalkeeper
• Tony Davies (1939–2008), New Zealand rugby union footballer, born William Anthony Davies
• Will Davies (rugby), rugby league footballer of the 1910s for Great Britain, Wales, and Halifax RLFC
• Will Davies (rugby player) (1906–1975), Wales international rugby union player
• Willie Davies (footballer) (1900–1953), Swansea Town F.C., Cardiff City F.C., Notts County F.C.,Tottenham Hotspur F.C. and Wales international footballer
• Willie Davies (1916–2002), Welsh dual-code rugby footballer
• Taffy Davies (William Davies, 1910–1995), Welsh footballer with Watford
• William Davies (rugby league), English rugby league footballer
• William Davies (cricketer, born 1972), English cricketer
• William Davies (English cricketer), English cricketer
• Billy Davies (cricketer, born 1936), Welsh former cricketer
• Bill Davies (footballer) (1930-2003), Australian footballer
• Bill Davies (golfer), English Ryder Cup golfer

Others

• William Davies (priest) (died 1593), Welsh Roman Catholic priest and martyr
• William Davies (d. 1689), highwayman known as the Golden Farmer and hanged at the location of the Jolly Farmer, Surrey, England
• William Davies (Virginia) (fl. 1770s), Continental Army officer in the American Revolutionary War
• William Davies (palaeontologist) (1814–1891), British palaeontologist
• William Edmund Davies (1819–1879), bookmaker
• William Broughton Davies (1831–1906), Sierra Leonean medical doctor
• William Henry Davies (entrepreneur) (1831–1921), Canadian pork packer
• William W. Davies (1833–1906), leader of a schismatic Latter Day Saint group in Washington, United States
• W. H. Davies (William Henry Davies, 1871–1940), Welsh poet
• William Llewelyn Davies (1887–1952), chief librarian of the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
• William David Davies (1897–1969), Welsh Presbyterian minister and theologian
• William Arthian Davies (1901–1979), British lawyer and judge
• William Edward Davies (1917–1990), American geologist and caver
• William Davies (screenwriter), British-born American screenwriter (Twins, Flushed Away)
• William Davies (investor) (died 2016), owner of Old Chicago Main Post Office

Characters

• Billy Davies (River City), fictional character on Scottish soap opera River City
• Will Davies, fictional character on British soap opera Hollyoaks

Other

• William Davies Company, often referred to as "William Davies", Canadian pork packing firm (1854–1927)

See also

• William Davis (disambiguation)
• William Rees-Davies (disambiguation)
• William Henry Davies (disambiguation)
• William Davies Evans (1790–1872), seafarer, inventor and chess player
• William Davies Thomas (1889–1954), professor of English at Saskatchewan and Swansea
• William Richardson Davie (1756–1820), Governor of North Carolina