William Wells
Appearance
William Wells may refer to:
Military
- William Wells (general) (1837–1892), U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient for the Battle of Gettysburg
- William Wells (Medal of Honor) (1832–?), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- William Wells (soldier) (1770–1812), American army officer and adopted member of the Miami tribe
- William Lewis Wells (1895–1918), World War I flying ace
Sports
- Billy Wells (American football) (William Prescott Wells, 1931–2001), American professional football player
- Bombardier Billy Wells (William Thomas Wells, 1889–1967), English heavyweight boxer
- William Wells (boxer) (born 1936), British Olympic boxer
- Willie Wells (1906–1989), American professional baseball player
- Willie Wells Jr. (1922–1994), American professional baseball player
- Bill Wells (footballer) (1920–2013), Australian rules footballer
- Billy Wells (footballer) (1916–1984), Australian rules footballer
Music
- Bill Wells (born c. 1963), Scottish musician
- Dicky Wells (William Wells, 1907–1985), American jazz trombonist
Politics
- William Benjamin Wells (1809–1881), Canadian lawyer, judge, journalist and politician
- William H. Wells (1769–1829), American lawyer and U.S. Senator from Delaware
- William S. Wells (1848–1916), member of the Maine House of Representatives
- William Wells (1908–1990), barrister, MP for Walsall North from 1945–74
- William Wells (New Zealand politician) (1810–1893), member of New Zealand Parliament
- William Wells (1818–1889), British Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Beverley, 1852–1857, and Peterborough, 1874–1874
Other fields
- William Wells (bishop) (died 1444), English Roman Catholic Bishop of Rochester
- William Wells (priest) (died 1675), English Church of England Archdeacon of Colchester
- William Wells (minister) (1744–1827), minister & farmer of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire (UK); and Brattleboro, VT
- William Charles Wells (1757–1817), Scottish-American physician and printer
- William F. Wells (1886-1963), American scientist and sanitary engineer
- William Frederick Wells (1762–1836), English watercolour painter and etcher
- William H. Wells (educator) (1812–1865), educator who served as superintendent of Chicago Public Schools
- William Wells (whaling master) (1815–1880), English captain of whaling ships
- William George Wells, Chief Scout Commissioner of Scouts Australia
- William Wells (cricketer) (1881–1939), English cricketer
- William Storrs Wells (1849–1926), American businessman, prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age