William Harris

William or Will or Willie Harris may refer to:

Politicians and political activists

• William Harris (born 1504) (1504–?), MP for Newport, Cornwall
• William Harris (died 1556), MP for Maldon
• William Harris (MP, died 1709) (c. 1652–1709), English landowner and member of parliament for St Ives, and for Okehampton
• William Harris (Birmingham Liberal) (1826–1911), Liberal Party politician and strategist, architect, and writer, in Birmingham, England
• William Harris (civil rights leader) (1867–1931), Australian advocate for Aboriginal rights
• William Harris (Symbionese Liberation Army), 20th century American militant
• William Alexander Harris (Kansas politician) (1841–1909), U.S. Representative from Kansas
• William Alexander Harris (Virginia politician) (1805–1864), U.S. Representative from Virginia
• William C. Harris (Illinois politician) (1921–2004), American politician
• William J. Harris (1868–1932), U.S. Senator from Georgia
• William Littleton Harris (1807–1868), Justice of the Mississippi Court of Errors and Appeals
• William L. Harris (1923–2013), American politician
• William James Harris (1835–1911), Conservative Party politician
• William R. Harris (1803–1858), justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court
• William Harris (New York politician), American businessman and politician from New York

Sportsmen

• William Harris (American football) (1965–2014), American football tight end
• Will Harris (American football), American football cornerback
• Bill Harris (swimmer) (1897–1961), American swimmer and Olympic bronze medallist
• William Harris (tennis) (1947–2002), American tennis player
• William Harris (cricketer, born 1861) (1861–1923), English cricketer
• William Harris (cricketer, born 1864) (1864–1949), English cricketer
• William Harris (cricketer, born 1883) (1883–1967), English cricketer
• William Harris (footballer) (1890–?), Scottish footballer
• William Harris (rugby union) (1876–1950), New Zealand rugby union player
• Will Harris (baseball) (born 1984), baseball player
• Willie Harris (born 1978), baseball player
• Will Harris (rugby union) (born 2000), Australian rugby union player
• Will Harris (footballer) (born 2000), English footballer

Academics and religious figures

• William Harris (Presbyterian minister) (c.1675–1740), English divine
• William Harris (historian) (1720–1770), English dissenting minister and historian
• William Harris (academic) (1765–1829), president of Columbia University
• William C. Harris (historian), professor of history at North Carolina State University
• William Logan Harris (1817–1887), Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
• William H. Harris (botanist) (1860–1920), Irish botanist
• William Henry Harris (academic) (1884–1956), Welsh divine, canon and treasurer of St David's Cathedral, and professor of Welsh at St David's College, Lampeter
• William Stewart Harris (1922–1994), English-born Australian anthropologist, journalist and Aboriginal rights advocate
• William V. Harris (born 1938), professor of history
• William Wadé Harris (c. 1860–1929), African evangelist
• William S. Harris, American professor and researcher on human nutrition

Soldiers

• William Harris (colonist) (1757–1812), figure in the American Revolution
• William Harris, 2nd Baron Harris (1782–1845), British soldier and peer
• William Harris, American Civil War colonel, son of Ira Harris
• William W. Harris (Medal of Honor) (1850–1878), Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Indian Wars
• William Frederick Harris (1918–1950), United States Marine Corps officer

Engineers, inventors and scientists

• William Cornwallis Harris (1807–1848), English military engineer, artist and hunter
• Sir William Gordon Harris (1912–2005), British civil engineer
• William Snow Harris (1791–1867), invented a ship-borne lightning rod
• William Harris, former director general of Science Foundation Ireland

Others

• Will Harris (poet) (born 1989), British poet
• William Harris (beachcomber) (c. 1813–1889), British escaped convict and settler in pre-colonial Nauru
• William Harris (musician) (fl. 1927–1928), American country blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter
• William Harris (theatrical producer) (1844–1916), American theatre producer and vaudevillian performer
• William Harris (Tudor person) (1556–1616), English knight, landowner and incorporator in the third Virginia Company of London
• William Harris (settler) (1610–1681), founding settler of Providence, Rhode Island
• William Harris, 6th Earl of Malmesbury (1907–2000), British peer
• Bill Harris (neuroscientist) (born 1950), Canadian-born neuroscientist
• William Critchlow Harris (1854–1913), Canadian architect
• William C. Harris (police officer), Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 1856–1881
• Sir William Henry Harris (1883–1973), English organist and composer
• William H. Harris (orthopaedic surgeon) (born 1927), American orthopaedic surgeon
• William Laurel Harris (1870–1924), American muralist and editor
• William Lewarne Harris (1929–2013), English composer
• William Torrey Harris (1835–1909), United States Commissioner of Education, American educator, philosopher, lexicographer
• William Harris Jr. (1884–1946), Broadway theatrical producer
• William Harris, founder of the Ottawa Citizen newspaper
• William Bevan Harris, British-American comic actor, better known as Billy Bevan
• Will Harris, the protagonist of the 2026 animated sports film Goat, voiced by Caleb McLaughlin

See also

• Bill Harris
• William Harries
• William Hamlyn-Harris (born 1978), Australian javelin thrower
• William Harrison