William Browne may refer to:
Government and politics
- William Browne (Mayor of the Calais Staple) (1410âÂÂ1489), Lord Mayor and Merchant of the Staple of Calais, France
- Sir William Browne (died 1514), Lord Mayor of London
- Sir William Browne (died 1507), Lord Mayor of London
- William Browne (judge) (1737âÂÂ1802), Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature
- William Browne (MP for Haslemere), English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1622
- William Browne (burgess) (1630âÂÂ1705), Virginia colonial planter, officer and politician
- William Browne (MP for Kerry) (1791âÂÂ1876), Irish politician in the UK Parliament
- William James Browne (1815âÂÂ1894), pastoralist and politician in South Australia
- William Browne (New South Wales politician) (1842âÂÂ1916), Australian politician
- William M. Browne (1827âÂÂ1883), soldier and cabinet member of the Confederate States of America
- William Alfred Browne (1831âÂÂ1904), British civil servant
- William Joseph Browne (1897âÂÂ1989), Newfoundland and Canadian politician
- William Browne (Irish politician) (fl. 1930s), Irish Fianna Fáil politician
- W. H. Browne (William Henry Browne, 1846âÂÂ1904), gold miner and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Sports
Other people
- William Browne (poet) (c. 1590âÂÂc. 1645), English poet
- William Browne (physician) (1692âÂÂ1774), English physician
- William George Browne (1768âÂÂ1813), British traveller
- William Phineas Browne (1804âÂÂ1869), American lawyer and coal mining pioneer
- William A. F. Browne (1805âÂÂ1885), British psychiatrist
- William F. Browne (died 1867), American military photographer
- William James Browne (1815âÂÂ1894), grazier, pastoralist and politician in South Australia
- William Rowan Browne (1884âÂÂ1975), Australian geologist
- William Denis Browne (1888âÂÂ1915), British composer, pianist, organist and music critic (last name is Denis Browne, though he is sometimes incorrectly referred to as "William Browne")
- William D. Browne (fl. 1940s), U.S. Army officer who discovered Nazi membership files
- William Washington Browne (1849âÂÂ1897), former slave and Union soldier
See also