William Howard

Bill, Billy, Will, Willie or William Howard may refer to:

Noblemen and politicians

American

• William J. Howard (1799–1862), Pittsburgh mayor in 1845
• William Alanson Howard (1813–1880), U.S. Representative from Michigan (1855–1859) and Governor of Dakota Territory 1878–1880
• William Howard (congressman) (1817–1891), U.S. Representative from Ohio
• William M. Howard (1857–1932), U.S. Representative from Georgia
• William O. Howard (1923-2006), American politician from Missouri
• William S. Howard (1875–1953), U.S. Representative from Georgia
• William Lorenzo Howard (1921–2004), mayor of Monroe, Louisiana

British

• William Howard (judge) (before 1230—1308), English nobleman and ancestor of aristocratic Howard family, Judge Advocate of Fleet
• William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham (c.1510–1573), English nobleman
• William Howard (died 1600) (1538–1600), English member of parliament
• Lord William Howard (1563–1640), nicknamed "Belted Will" or "Bauld Willie", third son of 4th Duke of Norfolk
• William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Effingham (1577–1615), his grandson, heir to 1st Earl of Nottingham
• William Howard (died 1672) (c.1599–1672), English gentleman and member of parliament
• William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford (1614–1680)
• William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Escrick (1626–1694), conspirator in Rye House Plot
• William Howard (died 1701) (c.1674–1701), English Member of Parliament for Carlisle 1695–1701 and Northumberland 1701
• William Howard (Irish politician) (before 1680—1728), Member of Parliament for Dublin City 1727–28
• William Howard, Viscount Andover (1714–1756), British Member of Parliament and heir to Earl of Berkshire
• William Howard, 3rd Earl of Wicklow (1761–1818), British nobleman, Earl of Wicklow
• William Howard (1781–1843), British Member of Parliament for Morpeth 1806–1826 and 1830–1832, Sutherland 1837–1840
• William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow (1788–1869), British nobleman
• William Howard, 8th Earl of Wicklow (1902–1978), British nobleman
• William George Howard, 8th Earl of Carlisle (1808–1889), English clergyman and peer

Performers

• Willie Howard (1883–1949), American comedian with his brother Eugene as Howard Brothers
• Billy Howard (comedian), English comedian and impressionist active since 1960s

Sportsmen

• Billy Howard (gridiron football) (1950–2005), American defensive lineman with the Detroit Lions
• William Howard (American football) (born 1964), American running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• Willie Howard (born 1977), American football defensive end and coach
• Will Howard (cricketer) (born 1981), English first-class cricketer
• William Howard (basketball) (born 1993), French power forward
• Will Howard (American football) (born 2001), American quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers
• Bill Howard (rugby union)

Writers

• William Howard (engineer) (1793–1834), American railroad topographer and memoirist
• William Lee Howard (1860–1918), American physician and writer
• William K. Howard (1899–1954), American film director, writer and producer
• William Alvin Howard (born 1926), American proof theorist (Curry-Howard correspondence)
• M. William Howard Jr. (born 1946), American academic and Reformed Church historian
• Bill Howard (journalist) (born 1969), American Catholic journalist and editor

Others

• William Howard (typefounder), 19th-century English designer at Chiswick Press in Great Queen Street
• William Howard (artist) (before 1830—after 1870), African American woodworker and craftsman
• William R. Howard (1922–2009), American businessman and Piedmont Airlines executive

See also

• William Howard School, Brampton, England
• William Stafford-Howard (disambiguation)