William Maxwell

William Maxwell may refer to:

William Maxwell (physician) (1620–1647), Scottish physician
William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale (1676–1744), Catholic nobleman
William Maxwell (Continental Army general) (1733–1796), Irish-born American soldier from New Jersey in the American Revolutionary War
Sir William Maxwell, 5th Baronet, of Monreith, British MP for Wigtownshire, 1805–1812 and 1822–1830
General Sir William Maxwell, 7th Baronet of Calderwood (1754–1837)
William Maxwell (engraver) (c. 1766–1809), printer of the Sentinel of the Northwest Territory newspaper in Cincinnati, Ohio
William Maxwell (educator) (1784–1857), seventh President of Hampden–Sydney College
William Maxwell (railroad executive) (1794-1856), American business executive and politician, president of the Erie Railroad 1842–1843
William Maxwell (journalist) (died 1928), British journalist, soldier, writer and civil servant
William Maxwell (Australian politician) (1867–1921), gold miner and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
William Maxwell (footballer) (1876–1940), Scottish footballer, manager of the Belgian national football team
William Babington Maxwell (1866–1938), British novelist
William George Maxwell (1871–1959), British naturalist and colonial administrator in British Malaya and Straits Settlements
William Hamilton Maxwell (1792–1850), Scots-Irish novelist
William Jardine Herries Maxwell (1852–1933), British MP for Dumfriesshire, 1892–1895 and 1900–1906
William John Maxwell, 18th Naval Governor of Guam
William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. (1908–2000), American editor and writer
William Sutherland Maxwell (1874–1952), Canadian architect and a Hand of the Cause in the Bahá'í Faith
William C. Maxwell (1892–1920), American pilot in the United States Air Force

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