William Wood

William Wood may refer to:

Banking

• William Wood (banker, born 1808) (1808–1894), Scottish-American banker
• William Henry O'Malley Wood (1856–1941), Australian banker, public servant and surveyor

Entertainment

• William B. Wood (actor) (1779–1861), American theatre manager and actor
• William Wood (ventriloquist) (c. 1861–1908), American illusionist and ventriloquist
• Will Wood, American alternative singer-songwriter and lead singer of The Tapeworms
• Merlyn Wood (William Anku Kraka Mawuli Andoh Wood Jr., born 1996), American vocalist for the band Brockhampton

Government

Industry

• William Wood (ironmaster) (1671–1730), British ironmaster and mint master
• William Willis Wood (mayor) (1844–1905), English mill owner, Wesleyan Methodist preacher and mayor of Bradford
• William Bruce Wood (1848–1928), Canadian mill owner and political figure in Ontario
• William Madison Wood (1858–1926), American textile mill owner in Massachusetts
• William B. Wood (builder) (fl. 1890s), American building contractor in Kentucky
• Sir William Valentine Wood (1883–1959), Irish-born president of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 1941–1947

Military

• William Maxwell Wood (1809–1880), United States Navy officer and surgeon, first Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy
  • USS William M. Wood, the name of three ships of the U.S. Navy (two canceled, one built)
• William W. Wood (1818–1882), U.S. Navy engineer and head of the Bureau of Steam Engineering
• William D. Wood (1822–1867), American Union brevet brigadier general
• William T. Wood (1854–1943), officer in the United States Army

Science and medicine

• William Wood (botanist) (1745–1808), English botanist and Unitarian minister
• William Wood (zoologist) (1774–1857), English entomologist
• William Wood (Scottish surgeon) (1782–1858), Scottish surgeon
• William Wood (naturalist) (1822–1885), American physician and naturalist
• William Barry Wood III (1938–2024), American molecular and developmental biologist

Sports

Trade unions

• William Henry Wood (fl. 1860s), British trade union leader
• William H. Wood, American labor union leader, first president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, 1889–1890
• William Wood (trade unionist, born 1873) (1873–1956), British trade union leader

Others

• William Wightman Wood (fl. 1804–1833), American journalist, businessman and poet
• William Halsey Wood (1855–1897), American architect
• William Charles Henry Wood (1864–1947), Canadian historian
• William J. Wood (1877–1954), Canadian painter and etcher
• William Ransom Wood (1907–2001), president of the University of Alaska, 1960–1973
• William Wood (screenwriter), American screenwriter

See also

• Bill Wood (disambiguation)
• Willie Wood (disambiguation)
• William Woods (disambiguation)
• William Wood-Sims (1858–1925), English cricketer

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