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William, Willy or Bill Russell (or other variants) may refer to:
[edit] In politics
[edit] Australia
[edit] New Zealand
[edit] Kingdom of England
- William Russell (bishop) (died 1374), Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1348 to 1374
- Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Chippenham (died 1654), English MP for Windsor
- William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh (c. 1558–1613), English military commander
- Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Wytley (c. 1602–1669), English MP for Worcestershire
- William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford (1616–1700), British peer and soldier
- William Russell, Lord Russell (1639–1683), English politician
[edit] United Kingdom
- William Russell (merchant) (1740–1818), Birmingham merchant and Unitarian
- William Russell (writer) (1741–1793), Scottish historical and miscellaneous writer
- Lord William Russell (1767–1840), Lord of the Admiralty
- William Congreve Russell (1778–1850), English MP and High Sheriff of Worcestershire
- William Russell (1798–1850), British Member of Parliament (MP) for Saltash, Bletchingley and County Durham
- William Russell, 8th Duke of Bedford (1809–1872), member of the United Kingdom Parliament
- Charles William Russell (1812–1880), Irish Roman Catholic clergyman and scholar
- William Armstrong Russell (1821–1879), Anglican bishop in China
- William Howard Russell (1821–1907), Irish reporter for The Times in the Crimean War
- Sir William Russell, 2nd Baronet (1822–1892), MP for Dover, 1857–1859
- William Russell (Bolton MP) (1859–1937), Member of Parliament for Bolton, 1922–1923
[edit] United States
- William Russell (North Carolina), 18th century member of the North Carolina General Assembly
- William Russell (Virginia) (1735–1793), Virginia frontier soldier and legislator, father of William Russell of Kentucky
- William Russell (Kentucky) (1758–1825), American soldier, pioneer, and politician
- William Russell (Ohio politician) (1782–1845), U.S. Representative from Ohio
- William Russell (educator) (1798–1873), American educator (born in Scotland)
- William Huntington Russell (1809–1885), U.S. businessman from Connecticut, co-founder of Skull and Bones
- William Hepburn Russell (1812–1872), founder of the Pony Express
- William Fiero Russell (1812–1896), American Congressman from New York
- William Greeneberry Russell (1818–1887), American miner
- William A. Russell (1891–1899), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
- William A. Russell (New York) (fl. 1850–), New York politician
- William Russell (governor) (1857–1896), governor of Massachusetts between 1891 and 1894
- William F. Russell (Sergeant at Arms) (fl. 1947–), Sergeant at Arms of the 80th United States Congress
- William Russell (American actor) (1884–1929), leading man in silent movies
- William T. Russell (born 1963), U.S. army officer and 2008 candidate for U.S. Congress
[edit] In sports
[edit] In the arts
- Bill Russell (composer) (1905–1992), American music historian and modernist composer
- George William Russell (1867–1935), Anglo-Irish writer, poet, painter and mystic
- William Clark Russell (1844–1911), writer of nautical novels
- William Hamilton Russell (1856–1907), American architect
- William Russell (actor) (born 1924), British actor
- William Russell (American actor) (1884–1929), American actor of stage and screen
- Willy Russell (born 1947), British playwright, lyricist and composer
- William Russell (organist) (1777–1813), organist and composer
- Bill Russell (lyricist), Broadway lyricist
- William D. Russell (director) (1908–1968), American film and television director
- William D. Russell (historian) (born 1938), American historian and social activist
[edit] Others
- William Thomas Russell (1863–1927), American Roman Catholic bishop of Charleston
- William Fletcher Russell (1890–1956), president of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York
- William Hepburn Russell (politician) (1857–1911), lawyer, politician and owner of the Boston Braves baseball team
- William W. Russell, United States Ambassador to Colombia, 1904–1905, and to Venezuela, 1905–1908
- William Russell (physician) (1852–1940), Scottish pathologist and physician, see Russell bodies
- Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet (died c. 1714), British baronet (see Russell Baronets)
- Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet (1773–1839), British baronet (see Russell Baronets)
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