William Gray

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William Gray or Bill Gray may refer to:

Contents 1 Religious figures and public officials 2 Writers and academics 3 Sports personalities 4 Others 5 See also

[edit] Religious figures and public officials

• William Gray (bishop) (before 1390–1436), English clergyman; served as Bishop of London (1425–1431) and Bishop of Lincoln (1431–1436)
• William Gray (Massachusetts) (1750–1825), American politician and merchant who became one of the wealthiest men of his era
• William H. Gray (Oregon politician) (1810–1889), American pioneer of Oregon Country and organizer of its government
• William Gray (Canadian politician) (1862–1916), politician in Ontario, Canada
• William Gray (Conservative politician) (1814–1895), British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton 1857–1874
• William Crane Gray (1835–1919), American religious figure; first bishop of the Episcopal Church's Missionary Jurisdiction
• William Bain Gray (1886–1949), British Foreign Office official; served as Administrator of Saint Vincent and Governor of Saint Helena
• William Gray (Glasgow), Scottish administrator who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1972 to 1975
• Wilfred James Gray, Australian government official from the 1970s to the 2000s; specialist in Aboriginal matters; best known as Bill Gray
• William H. Gray (Pennsylvania) (born 1941), American minister and political figure; Democrat from Pennsylvania; 2nd district (1979–1991)
• William Percival Gray (1912-1992), U.S. federal judge

[edit] Writers and academics

• William S. Gray (1885–1960), American academic and prolific textbook author who was a foremost authority on the teaching of reading
• William G. Gray (1913–1992), English occultist, author and mystic whose prolific writings define modern studies of ritual and the occult
• George William Gray (born 1926), Scottish academic who is an internationally known authority on organic chemistry
• William M. Gray, (born 1931), American academic; Professor of Atmospheric Science; pioneer in techniques of forecasting hurricanes
• William D. Gray, American philosopher; author of the 1991 book Thinking Critically About New Age Ideas

[edit] Sports personalities

• Bill Gray (baseball) (1871–1932), American Major League Baseball player whose career lasted from May 1890 to October 1898
• Bill Gray (American football) (1922–1978), American offensive lineman in the National Football League (Washington Redskins)
• Bill Gray (footballer) (born 1881), Scottish footballer with Partick Thistle and Southampton in the 1900s.
• Bill Gray (rugby player) (1932–1993), New Zealand Rugby Union footballer
• William Gray (cricketer) (1864-1898), cricketer
• Billy Gray (born 1927), English footballer

[edit] Others

• Bill Gray (born 1938), American actor who portrayed teenager Bud Anderson on TV's Father Knows Best; best known as Billy Gray
• William J. Gray, American astronomer associated with Project Pluto
• William Gray (aviator), (born 11 October 1898), World War I flying ace

[edit] See also

• Gray (surname)
• William Gray Purcell (1880–1965), American architect known for his late-19th- early-20th-century Midwestern "Prairie School" style
• William Francis Gray Swann (1884–1962), Anglo-American physicist particularly noted for research into cosmic rays and high energy
• William Gray Espy (born 1948), American actor best known for roles in daytime dramas The Young and the Restless and Another World
• Bill Gray's, American chain of fast-food restaurants based in New York State; founded in 1938 by Bill and Alberta Gray
• William Grey (disambiguation)

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