William Russell

William Russell may refer to:

In politics

• William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford (1616–1700), British peer and soldier
• William A. Russell (1831–1899), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• William A. Russell (New York), New York politician
• William F. Russell (Sergeant at Arms), Sergeant at Arms of the 80th United States Congress
• William T. Russell (born 1963), U.S. army officer and 2008 candidate for U.S. Congress
• William Fiero Russell (1812–1896), American Congressman from New York
• William Russell, 8th Duke of Bedford (1809–1872), member of the United Kingdom Parliament
• William Russell, Lord Russell (1639–1683), English politician
• William Russell (Australian politician) (1842–1912), Australian Senator
• William Russell (governor) (1857–1896), governor of Massachusetts between 1891 and 1894
• William Russell (Kentucky) (1758–1825), American soldier, pioneer, and politician
• William Russell (Ohio) (1782–1845), U.S. Representative from Ohio
• William Russell (New Zealand) (1838–1913), New Zealand politician
• 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
• Sir William Russell, 2nd Baronet, MP for Dover, 1857–1859
• Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Wytley (c. 1602–1669), English MP for Worcestershire
• Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Chippenham (d. 1654), English MP for Windsor
• William Russell (Bolton MP), Member of Parliament for Bolton, 1922–1923

In sports

• Bill Russell (born 1934), American basketball player
• Bill Russell (baseball) (born 1948), shortstop, coach and manager in Major League Baseball
• Billy Russell (born 1959), footballer

In the arts

• Bill Russell (composer) (1905–1992), American music historian and modernist composer
• 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 (silent film actor) (1884–1929), American silent film actor
• Willy Russell (born 1947), British playwright, lyricist and composer
• William Russell (organist) (1777–1813), organist and composer
• William Russell (painter) (1780–1870), painter
• Bill Russell (lyricist), Broadway lyricist
• William D. Russell (1908–1968), American film and television director

Others

• Charles William Russell (1812–1880), Irish Roman Catholic clergyman and scholar
• George William Russell (1867–1935), Anglo-Irish supporter of the Nationalist movement in Ireland
• Lord William Russell (1767–1840), Lord of the Admiralty
• William Russell (educator) (1798-1873) American educator (born in Scotland)
• William D. Russell (historian), Mormon historian and Graceland University professor
• William Greeneberry Russell (1818–1887), American miner
• William Hepburn Russell (1812–1872), founder of the Pony Express
• William Howard Russell (1821–1907), Irish reporter for The Times in the Crimean War
• William Huntington Russell (1809–1885), co-founder of Skull and Bones
• William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh (circa 1558–1613), English military commander

• William Russell (merchant) (1740-1818), Birmingham merchant and Unitarian
• William Russell (bishop), Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1348 to 1374
• William Hepburn Russell (politician) (1857–1911), a lawyer, politician and owner of the Boston Braves baseball team
• William W. Russell, U.S. Minister to Colombia, 1904–1905, and to Venezuela, 1905–1908

• Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet (d. c. 1714), British baronet (see Russell Baronets)
• Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet (1773–1839), British baronet (see Russell Baronets)

See also

• Lady William Russell, wife of Lord George William Russell and socialite

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