William Wells

William Wells may refer to:

Military

• William Wells (general) (1837–1902), U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient for the Battle of Gettysburg
• William Wells (Medal of Honor) (born 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, see No. 22 Squadron RAF

Sports

• Billy Wells (American football) (William Prescott Wells, 1931–2001), American professional football player
• William Thomas Wells (1889–1967), or "Bombardier Billy Wells", English heavyweight boxer
• William Wells (boxer) (born 1936), British boxer, represented Great Britain at the 1968 Summer Olympics
• Willie Wells (1905–1989), American professional baseball player

Music

• Bill Wells, 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 Wells (British politician) (1908–1990), Barrister, MP for Walsall North from 1945-74
• William Wells (New Zealand politician) (born 1810), 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 Charles Wells (1757–1817), Scottish-American physician and printer
• William Frederick Wells (1762–1836), English watercolour painter and etcher
• William Wells (bishop) (?–1444), English Roman Catholic Bishop of Rochester

See also

• Welles (name)
• Wells (name)