William Stewart

William Stewart, Willie Stewart, Bill Stewart or Billy Stewart may refer to:

Public officials

Scotland, Northern Ireland and England

• William Stewart (bishop of Aberdeen) (1490–1545), Scottish clergyman and diplomat
• William Stewart (makar) (c.1476–c.1548), Scottish poet
• William Stewart (Lord Mayor of London), Lord Mayor of London
• William Stewart (Belfast South) (1868–1946), Northern Ireland Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
• William Stewart (Houghton-le-Spring) (ca. 1878–1960), English Member of Parliament
• William Stewart (Northern Ireland politician) (born 1910/11), member of the Senate of Northern Ireland
• William Stewart (ca. 1706–1748), Scottish Member of Parliament of Great Britain
• William Stewart (1737–1797), Scottish Member of Parliament of Great Britain
• William Stewart (1774–1827), Scottish Member of Parliament of Great Britain
• William Stewart, 1st Earl of Blessington (1709–1769), an Anglo-Irish peer and member of the House of Lords
• William Stewart, 2nd Viscount Mountjoy (1675-1728), an Anglo-Irish peer
• William Stewart (bishop of Taunton) (1943–1998), English clergyman
• William Houston Stewart (1822–1901), Scottish naval officer
• William Stewart of Houston (ca. 1540–ca. 1605), Scottish soldier, privy councilor and diplomat

Canada

• William Stewart (Upper Canada and Canada West) (1803–1856), Canadian businessman and political figure
• William J. Stewart (hydrographic surveyor) (1863–1925), Canada's first Chief Hydrographic Surveyor
• William S. Stewart (1855–1938), a lawyer, judge and political figure on Prince Edward Island
• William Atcheson Stewart (1915–1990), member of Legislative Assembly of Ontario
• William Douglas Stewart (born 1938), member of House of Commons
• William Dunbar Stewart (1839–ca. 1879), merchant and political figure on Prince Edward Island
• William James Stewart (1889–1969), mayor of Toronto
• William E. Stewart, leader of the Communist Party in Ontario in the 1970s.

United States

• William Stewart (Pennsylvania) (1810–1876), represented 23rd congressional district from 1857 to 1861
• William H. Stewart (1921–2008), pediatrician and epidemiologist, 10th Surgeon General of the United States
• William J. Stewart (Pennsylvania politician), Pennsylvania politician
• William R. Stewart (1864–1958), second African-American elected to Ohio State Senate
• William Alvah Stewart (1903–1953), jurist who served in Judge Advocate General's Corps during World War II
• William Morris Stewart (1827–1909), one of Nevada's first two U.S. senators
• William Thomas Stewart (1853–1935), Utah territorial legislature

New Zealand

• William Stewart (politician) (1861–1955), Reform Party member of House of Representatives
• William Downie Stewart, Sr. (1842–1898), member of House of Representatives for City of Dunedin and Dunedin West
• William Downie Stewart, Jr. (1878–1949), historian; mayor of Dunedin; son of William Downie Stewart, Sr.

Sportspeople

• Bill Stewart (American football) (1952-2012), American football coach
• Bill Stewart (baseball) (born 1928), American outfielder who played for the Kansas City Athletics
• Bill Stewart (ice hockey) (born 1957), Canadian ice hockey defenceman
• Bill Stewart (sports official) (1894–1964), American baseball coach and ice hockey referee
• Billy Stewart (footballer) (born 1965), English goalkeeper who played for several clubs, including Chester and Southport
• Willie Stewart (1872–1945), Scottish footballer who played for Newton Heath and Luton Town
• William Stewart (Scottish footballer), Scottish footballer who played for Preston North End and Everton in the 1890s
• William Stewart (footballer born 1876), Scottish international footballer who played for Queen's Park and Newcastle United
• William Stewart (footballer born 1910), Scottish footballer who played for Manchester United and Motherwell

Music and television personalities

• Bill Stewart (actor) (1942–2006), English actor best known as Sandy Longford on A Touch of Frost
• Bill Stewart (musician) (born 1966), American jazz drummer
• Bill Stewart (television journalist) (1941–1979), American TV correspondent for ABC News
• Billy Stewart (1937–1970), African-American musical artist
• William G. Stewart (born 1935), English television producer, director and presenter of Fifteen to One

Others

• Bill Stewart (programmer) (born 1950), American software creator
• William Stewart (scientist) (born 1937), Scottish microbiologist
• William George Drummond Stewart (1831–1868), Scottish recipient of Victoria Cross; Crimean War veteran
• William Robert Stewart (before 1760–1818), American ship captain

See also

• William Steuart (Mayor of Baltimore)
• Stewart (name)
• William Stuart (disambiguation)
• William G. Stewart Elementary School