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William Arthur Shaw (1865–1943) was an English historian and archivist.

Sir William James Ashley was an English economic historian. His major intellectual influence was in organising economic history in Great Britain and introducing the ideas of the leading German economic historians, especially Gustav von Schmoller and the historical school of economic history. His chief work is The Economic Organisation of England, still a set text on many A-level and University syllabuses.

William Ashton Ellis was an English doctor and theosophist. He is remembered for translating the complete prose works of Richard Wagner.

William Astley was an Australian short-story writer who wrote under the pseudonym "Price Warung".

William Augustus Miles was an English political writer. He was also a British agent in the years around the French Revolution.

William Auld was a British poet, author, translator and magazine editor who wrote chiefly in Esperanto.

William Bennett Munro was a Canadian historian and political scientist. He taught at Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology. He was known for research on the seigneurial system in New France and on municipal administration in the United States.

William Ball Rice was an American industrialist who co-founded Rice & Hutchins, a shoe manufacturing company with main offices in Boston, Massachusetts. He served as president of the company from its founding in 1866 until his death.

William Ballantyne Hodgson was a Scottish educational reformer and political economist.

William Barclay David Donald Turnbull (1811–63) was a Scottish antiquary, born at Edinburgh. He studied law, and was admitted as an advocate at the Scottish bar 1832, but devoted much time to the study of the antiquities and older literature of Great Britain. In 1834, he founded the Abbotsford Club, which preserved manuscripts and old editions of written material. In 1859 he was employed by the Record Commission, but on account of his Catholicism he was attacked by the ultra-Protestant party and compelled to resign. He was an industrious and careful editor, and did excellent service by his editions of Middle English and early modern English poetry. His work as genealogist and historical editor was of value. Among his publications may be named:The Romance of Sir Guy of Warwick and Rembrun his Son (1840) The Visions of Tundale (1843) Letters of Mary Queen of Scots (1845) The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden (1856) This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.