William Russell

• William Russell (banker) (1734–1817) English collier and banker • William Russell (merchant) (1740–1818), English merchant • William Hepburn Russell (1812–1872), American freight contractor, founder of Pony Express • William Greeneberry Russell (1818–1887), American prospector and miner • William Hamilton Russell (1856–1907), American architect ==Education==

• William Russell (educator) (1798–1873), American teacher born in Scotland • William Fletcher Russell (1890–1956), American educationalist; president of Teachers College • William D. Russell (historian) (born 1938), American history professor ==Film==

• William Russell (American actor) (1884–1929), American stage and screen actor • William D. Russell (director) (1908–1968), American film and television director • William Russell (English actor) (1924–2024), British film and television actor ==Judiciary==

• William Alison Russell (1875–1948), Scottish lawyer and judge • William Oldnall Russell (1785–1833), English chief justice of Bengal ==Politics==

Kingdom of England • William Russell (knight) (1257–1311), holder of a moiety of the feudal barony of North Cadbury, Somerset • William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh (1553/63–1613), English military commander • Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Chippenham (before 1585–1654), English MP for Windsor • Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Wytley (1602–1669), English MP for Worcestershire • William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford (1616–1700), English peer and soldier • William Russell, Lord Russell (1639–1683), English politician United Kingdom • 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 (Durham MP) (1798–1850), Member of Parliament (MP) for Saltash, Bletchingley and County Durham • William Russell, 8th Duke of Bedford (1809–1872), member of 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 (Lord Mayor) (born 1965), Lord Mayor of London, 2019–2021 United States • William Russell (Virginia politician) (1735–1793), Virginia frontier soldier and legislator, father of William Russell of Kentucky • William Russell (Kentucky politician) (1758–1825), American soldier, pioneer, and politician • William Russell (Ohio politician) (1782–1845), U.S. Representative from Ohio • William F. Russell (Florida politician) (c.1805–after 1875), Speaker of Florida House of Representatives • William Huntington Russell (1809–1885), businessman, educator and politician from Connecticut • William Fiero Russell (1812–1896), American congressman from New York • William A. Russell (New York politician) (after 1820–before 1897), New York politician • William A. Russell (Massachusetts politician) (1831–1899), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts • William E. Russell (politician) (1857–1896), governor of Massachusetts between 1891 and 1894 • William Hepburn Russell (baseball) (1857–1911), lawyer, politician and owner of Boston Braves • William W. Russell (before 1870–after 1908), United States Ambassador to Colombia, 1904–1905 and to Venezuela, 1905–1908 Oceania • William Russell (New South Wales politician) (1807–1866), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly • William Russell (New Zealand politician) (1838–1913), Member of Parliament • William Russell (Australian politician) (1842–1912), Australian senator from South Australia ==Religion==

• William Russell (bishop of Sodor) (before 1300–1374), Cistercian prelate from Isle of Man • William Russell (bishop of North China) (1821–1879), Irish Protestant missionary to China • William Thomas Russell (1863–1927), American Roman Catholic bishop of Charleston ==Science==

• William James Russell (1830–1909), English chemist • William Russell (physician) (1852–1940), Scottish pathologist • William Ritchie Russell (1903–1980), British neurologist • William L. Russell (geneticist) (1910–2003), British-American geneticist ==Society==

• Elizabeth, Lady William Russell (1793–1874), English socialite, wife of Lord George William Russell ==Sports==

• William Russell (cricketer) (1866–1929), Australian-born English first-class cricketer • William Russell (fencer) (1896–1958), American Olympic fencer • Willie Russell (1901–after 1935), Scottish footballer • Willie Russell (footballer, born 1903) (1903–after 1940), Scottish footballer • William Eric Russell (1936–2026), Scottish-born English cricketer • William Russell (rugby union) (1880–1933), Scottish international rugby union player ==War==

• William Howard Russell (1820–1907), Irish reporter and one of first modern war correspondents • William Carmichael Russell (1824–1905), British Bengal artillery officer ==Writing==

• William Russell (Scottish writer) (1741–1793), Scottish writer • William Russell (organist) (1777–1813), English composer • William Russell (fiction writer) (1806–1876), English writer of detective and other stories • William Clark Russell (1844–1911), English writer of nautical novels • William Wilkins Russell (1807–1892), composer and teacher of music in Tasmania, Australia • Willy Russell (born 1947), English playwright, lyricist and composer ==See also==