Big Bill

Big Bill is a nickname that may refer to:

• Bill Abstein (1883–1940), American Major League Baseball and amateur soccer player
• Bill Bachrach (1879–1959), American swim and water polo coach
• Bill Bagwell (1895–1976), American Major League Baseball player
• Big Bill Bissonnette (1937–2018), American jazz trombonist and producer
• Big Bill Broonzy (1903–1958), American blues singer and guitarist
• William Stephen Devery (1854–1919), New York City Police superintendent and first police chief, later co-owner of the New York Yankees baseball team
• Bill Dwyer (mobster) (1883–1946), prohibition gangster and bootlegger
• Big Bill Edwards (1877–1943), American college football player
• Bill France Sr. (1909–1992), American racing driver, co-founder, Chairman and CEO of NASCAR
• Bill Gatewood (1881–1962), American Negro league baseball player and manager
• Bill Haywood (1869–1928), a prominent figure of the American labor movement
• William H. Hodgins (1856–1912), New York City police captain
• Bill Hollenback (1886–1968), American college football Hall-of-Fame player and coach
• Bill James (pitcher, born 1887) (1887–1942), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Bill Kemmer (1873–1945), American Major League Baseball player
• Bill Lee (right-handed pitcher) (1909–1977), Major League Baseball pitcher
• William McKinley (1843-1901), 25th President of the United States
• Big Bill Morganfield (born 1956), American blues singer and guitarist
• Big Bill (wrestler) (born 1986), American professional wrestler
• Big Bill Neidjie (–2002), last surviving speaker of the Gagudju language
• Big Bill Smith (1869–?), American Negro league baseball player and manager
• Bill Speakman (1927–2018), British Army soldier awarded the Victoria Cross
• William Howard Taft (1857–1930), 27th president of the United States
• William Hale Thompson (1869–1944), mayor of Chicago
• Bill Tilden (1893–1953), American tennis player
• Bill Verna (born 1929), Australian professional wrestler
• Bill Voiselle (1919–2005), Major League Baseball pitcher
• William Watson (decathlete) (1916–1973), first African-American to win the national decathlon championship
• Bill Werbeniuk (1947–2003), Canadian snooker player

See also

• Little Bill (disambiguation)