William Wright

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William, Will or Bill Wright may refer to:

Contents 1 Authors, poets and writers 2 Entertainment 3 Politicians 4 Scientists and engineers 5 Sportsmen 6 Others 7 See also

[edit] Authors, poets and writers

• William Wright (poet) (born 1782), Scottish poet
• William Wright (1829–1898), real name of Dan DeQuille, American author, newspaperman, and humorist
• William Aldis Wright (1831–1914), English writer and editor
• William Wright (author) (born c. 1930), American author of Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals

[edit] Entertainment

• Will Wright (game designer) (born 1960), American computer game designer and co-founder of the game development company, Maxis
• Will Wright (actor) (1894–1962), American character actor in film and TV
• William Wright (actor) (1911–1949), American movie actor
• Bill Wright, creator of Mastermind (TV series)

[edit] Politicians

• William Wright (politician) (1794–1866), mayor of Newark, New Jersey and US Senator
• William B. Wright (1806–1868), Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals, 1868
• William W. Wright (1813–1889), New York politician and Erie Canal Commissioner
• William Ambrose Wright (1844–1929), soldier, statesman, lawyer, and devoted Christian. 50-year Georgia Comptroller General
• William Wright (Canadian politician) (1853–1926), Canadian Member of Parliament
• William Wright (Labour politician) (1862–1931), Scottish politician, Member of Parliament for Rutherglen, 1922–1931
• William C. Wright (1866–1933), U.S. Representative from Georgia

[edit] Scientists and engineers

• William Wright (botanist) (1735–1819), Scottish physician and botanist
• William Barton Wright (1828–1915), British railway engineer
• William Hammond Wright (1871–1959), American astronomer

[edit] Sportsmen

• Bill Wright (catcher), American baseball catcher for the Washington Nationals in 1887
• William Wright (cricketer) (1909–1988), English cricketer
• Bill Wright (outfielder) (born 1914), American baseball outfielder in the Negro leagues
• William Wright (tennis), American tennis player of the 1950s and 60s
• Will Wright (cyclist) (born 1973), Welsh cyclist

[edit] Others

• William Wright (Jesuit) (1562–1639), English Roman Catholic missionary priest
• William Wright (privateer) (1675–1682fl. 1675–1682), English privateer in French service and later buccaneer who raided Spanish towns in the late 1600s
• William Wright (orientalist) (1830–1889), British Orientalist, grammarian and researcher of Syriac and Arabic
• William Wright (missionary) (1837–1899), Irish missionary and author of The Empire of the Hittites
• William Wright (explorer), member of Australian Burke and Wills expedition
• William M. Wright (1863–1943), Lieutenant General in the United States Army
• William Henry Wright (1876–1951), Canadian prospector and publisher
• William Wright (aviator) (1895–1995), English aviator during World War I
• Wm. Robert Wright (born 1935), American lawyer and Mormon historian

[edit] See also

• Billy Wright (disambiguation)

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