William Carpenter

William, Will, Willie, or Bill Carpenter may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• William Carpenter (painter) (1818–1899), English watercolour artist
• William Carpenter (writer) (born 1940), American poet and novelist
• Willie C. Carpenter (fl. 1970s–2020s), American actor

Law and politics

• William H. Carpenter (1821–1885), U.S. Consul to Fuzhou, China, during the American Civil War
• William L. Carpenter (Michigan judge) (1854–1936), American jurist in Michigan
• William Carpenter (Australian politician) (1863–1930), Australian politician
• William Randolph Carpenter (1894–1956), US congressman
• Will Carpenter (born 1956), American politician

Science and medicine

• William Marbury Carpenter (1811–1848), American physician and naturalist
• William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), English physiologist and naturalist
• William L. Carpenter (1844–1898), American naturalist and geologist
• William T. Carpenter, American psychiatrist

Sports

• William J. Carpenter (1827–1921), American outdoorsman
• Bill Carpenter (rugby league) (fl. 1920s–1930s), Australian rugby league player
• Ken Carpenter (discus thrower) (William Kenneth Carpenter, 1913–1984), American discus thrower
• Bill Carpenter (born 1937), American football player

Others

• William the Carpenter (fl. 1087–1102), French nobleman
• William Carpenter (Rhode Island colonist) (c. 1610–1685), American colonist in Rhode Island
• William Hookham Carpenter (1792–1866), British antiquary, keeper at the British Museum
• William Carpenter (1797–1874), English theological and political writer
• William Carpenter (flat-Earth theorist) (1830–1896), English advocate of the Flat Earth theory
• William Boyd Carpenter (1841–1918), English clergyman and bishop
• William Henry Carpenter (philologist) (1853–1936), American philologist
• William Thomas Carpenter (1854–1933), American cowman and author
• William Kyle Carpenter, (born 1989), U.S. Marines Medal of Honor recipient

See also

• List of people with surname Carpenter#W