William Taylor may refer to:

Contents

• Military
• Political figures
• Australia
• Canada
• New Zealand
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Religious figures
• Scientists and engineers
• Sports people
• American football
• Cricket
• Other sports
• Writers, publishers, illustrators
• Legal professionals
• Others
• See also

Military

• William Taylor (Royal Navy officer, born 1760) (1760–1842), British naval officer
• William P. Taylor (Virginian) (1778–1834), American lawyer and militia Brigadier General
• William Rogers Taylor (1811–1889), U.S. Rear Admiral
• William G. Taylor (1829–1910), American sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
• William Taylor (Alamo defender) (fl. 1836), fatality at the Battle of the Alamo
• William Taylor (Medal of Honor) (1836–1902), Union Army soldier and officer during the American Civil War
• William Taylor (Royal Navy officer, born 1908) (1908–1999), British recipient of the George Cross
• William D. Taylor (general), United States Army general

Political figures

Religious figures

• William Taylor (Lollard) (died 1423), English priest and theologian, burnt as a Lollard
• William Taylor (Scottish minister) (1744–1823), Scottish minister, moderator and principal
• William Taylor (moderator) (1748–1825), minister of the Church of Scotland
• William Taylor (missionary) (1821–1902), U.S. missionary and bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
• William Mackergo Taylor (1829–1895), U.S. Congregational minister
• William W. Taylor (1853–1884), American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• William Taylor (Archdeacon of Liverpool) (1820–1906), archdeacon in the Diocese of Liverpool
• William Taylor (Dean of Portsmouth) (born 1956), Anglican priest
• William Carey Taylor (1886–1971), English Baptist minister and missionary

Scientists and engineers

• William B. Taylor (engineer) (1824–1895), American civil engineer and surveyor in New York
• William Taylor (inventor) (1865–1937), British inventor
• William C. Taylor (materials scientist), (1886–1958) of Howard N. Potts Medal
• William Taylor (ophthalmologist) (1912–1989), British ophthalmologist and expert on albinism
• William Randolph Taylor (1895–1990), American botanist
• William R. Taylor, psychiatrist, see Fuzzy cognitive map

Sports people

Writers, publishers, illustrators

• William Taylor (bookseller) (fl. 1708–1724), bookseller trading at St. Paul's Churchyard, London, and publisher of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe in 1719
• William Taylor (historian) (1922–2014), U.S. historian, professor, and author
• William Taylor (man of letters) (1765–1836), English scholar and linguist
• William Taylor (writer) (1938–2015), New Zealand children's writer
• William B. Taylor (historian) (fl. 1965–2007), American historian
• William Cooke Taylor (1800–1849), Irish writer
• William Davis Taylor (1908–2002), American newspaper publisher, The Boston Globe
• William Ladd Taylor (1854–1926), American illustrator
• William O. Taylor (1871–1955), American newspaper publisher, The Boston Globe
• William O. Taylor II (1932–2011), American newspaper publisher, The Boston Globe
• William Benjamin Sarsfield Taylor (1781–1850), Irish artist and writer

Legal professionals

• William Taylor (lawyer) (fl. 1971–2005), British lawyer who was lead counsel for Abdelbaset al-Megrahi at the Lockerbie trial
• William Taylor (police officer) (born 1947), British police officer
• William A. Taylor (1928–2010), Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court
• William H. Taylor (judge) (1863–1926), Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
• William M. Taylor (1876–1959), Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
• William McLaughlin Taylor Jr. (1909–1985), U.S. federal judge
• William Taylor (judge) (born 1944), English senior Circuit Judge

Others

• William Taylor (headmaster) (1840–1910), British teacher, headmaster of Sir Walter St John's Grammar School For Boys
• William Desmond Taylor (1872–1922), U.S. film director
• William Henry Taylor (1906–1965), alleged Soviet agent
• William Taylor, video game designer, see Blazing Angels 2
• William Taylor (folk song), a British folk song
• William Taylor (cotton manufacturer) (died 1852), cotton manufacturer in Lancashire, England
• William Taylor (academic) (1930–2005), English educationalist, vice-chancellor of the University of Hull
• William Taylor (Master of Christ's College, Cambridge) (16th century), academic
• William Joseph Taylor (1802–1885), British medallist and engraver
• Willie Taylor (born 1981), American singer and songwriter
• William Taylor (Nights: Journey of Dreams), video game character
• William Taylor & Son, an apartment building in Cleveland, United States

See also

• Billy Taylor (disambiguation)
• William Tayler (1808–1892), British civil servant of the East India Company
• William Taylor House (disambiguation)
• Will Taylor (disambiguation)
• Willy Taylor (1916–2000), Northumbrian fiddler
• List of people with surname Taylor

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