William Lynch

William Lynch may refer to:

Politicians and lawyers

• William Lynch (diplomat) (c. 1730–1785), British Member of Parliament for Canterbury and Minister to Sardinia
• William Lynch (Toronto politician)
• William H. Lynch, Mississippi legislator
• William B. Lynch (born 1943), Adjutant General of Pennsylvania
• William Lynch Jr. (1941–2013), Deputy Mayor of New York City under David Dinkins and political consultant
• William Warren Lynch (1845–1916), Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge in the province of Quebec
• William A. Lynch (1844–1907), Ohio lawyer and politician
• William Lynch (Lynch law) (1742–1820), claimed to be the basic cause of the "lynch law" term
• William Joseph Lynch (1908–1976), U.S. federal judge

Sportsmen

• Bill Lynch (born 1954), football coach
• Billy Lynch (Australian footballer) (1909–1985), played for North Melbourne and Essendon
• Billy Lynch (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1900s, and 1910s for England, Yorkshire, and Wakefield Trinity
• Bill Lynch (footballer) (1892–1947), Australian rules footballer

Others

• William F. Lynch (1801–1865), captain in the Virginia Navy, who commanded southern forces during the Union attack on Fort Fisher, North Carolina
• Willie Lynch, probably fictional author of the dubious William Lynch speech