Arts and entertainment •
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
Military •
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
Politics U.S. politics •
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
Other politics •
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
Religion •
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
Science •
William Wright (botanist) (1735–1819), Scottish physician and botanist •
William Wright (physician) (1827–1908), Canadian physician and curate •
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
Sports •
William Wright (cricketer, born 1841) (1841–1916), English cricketer •
William Wright (cricketer, born 1909) (1909–1988), English cricketer •
William Wright (footballer, born 1893) (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
Other •
William Wright (journalist), founder of the London-based think tank New Financial •
William Wright (master), English academic •
William Wright (orientalist) (1830–1889), professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge •
William Wright (privateer) (), English privateer and buccaneer •
William B. Wright (1806–1868), justice of the New York Supreme Court •
William Henry Wright (1876–1951), Canadian prospector, founder of
The Globe and Mail •
William James Wright (1903–1994), Scottish farmer and agriculturalist • William Robert Wright (1935–2012), or
Bob Wright (author), American co-author of a biography of Mormon leader David O. McKay ==Will==