William Morris (disambiguation)

William Morris (1834–1896) was a British writer, designer and socialist.

William, Bill or Billy Morris may also refer to:

Religious figures

• William Placid Morris (1794–1872), British Catholic Vicar Apostolic of the Cape of Good Hope and Mauritius
• William Morris (Baptist minister) (1843–1922), minister in South Wales
• William Morris (Irish priest), Dean of Clogher, 1959–1962
• William Morris (Church of Scotland minister) (1925–2013), Church of Scotland minister and author
• Bill Morris (bishop) (born 1943), Roman Catholic Bishop Emeritus of Toowoomba, Australia

Politicians, government and activists

• William Morris (Irish mayor), mayor of Galway, 1527–28
• William Morris (Canadian businessman) (1786–1858), businessman and political figure in Upper Canada
• William Ridgley Morris (1811–1889), member of the Pennsylvania State Legislature and consul
• William Harrington Morris, mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, 1875–1878
• William R. Morris (1853–1936), second Public Service Commissioner of New Zealand
• William Dowler Morris (1857–1931), mayor of Ottawa
• William S. Morris (1919–1975), Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, 1969–1973
• William E. Morris (politician) (1920–2013), founder of the Libertarian Party of Delaware in 1975
• Bill Morris (Tennessee politician) (born 1932/33), sheriff and mayor of Shelby County, Tennessee
• Bill Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth (born 1938), Jamaican-born British trade union leader
• Bill Morris (Illinois politician), member of the Illinois Senate and Mayor of Waukegan, Illinois
• William Morris (Next Century Foundation) (born 1950), British activist, chairman of the International Council for Press and Broadcasting

Sportsmen

• Bill Morris (Australian rules footballer) (1921–1960), Australian rules footballer
• Bill Morris (basketball) (c. 1920–1995), American basketball player
• Bill Morris (cricketer) (1917–2004), English cricketer
• Bill Morris (footballer) (1913–1995), England international football player
• Bill Morris (footballer, born 1888) (1888–1949), English footballer
• Bill Morris (ice hockey) (born 1949), Canadian former professional ice hockey player
• Bill Morris (rugby union player born 1869) (1869–1946), Welsh international rugby union forward
• Bill Morris (rugby union player born 1941), Australian born, Welsh international rugby union lock
• Billy Morris (footballer) (1918–2002), Welsh international football player
• Billy Morris (footballer, born 1920) (1920–1994), Welsh footballer (Swansea Town, Brighton & Hove Albion)
• Billy Morris (soccer), United States international football (soccer) player
• William Morris (American sport shooter) (born 1939), American Olympic sport shooter (1964)
• William Morris (British sport shooter) British Olympic sport shooter (1908)
• William Morris (cricketer) (1873–1945), English cricketer
• William J B Morris (born 1940), Wales international rugby union player
• Col. William George Morris (1847–1935), goalkeeper in 1878 FA Cup Final with the Royal Engineers
• Willie Morris (cricketer) (born 1955), South African cricketer
• Hal Morris (William Harold Morris III, born 1965), first baseman in Major League Baseball
• Speedy Morris (William Morris, born 1942), college basketball coach

Military figures

• William W. Morris (1801–1865), American Civil War general and Medal of Honor recipient
• William Morris (British Army officer) (1820–1858), British soldier who rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade
• William H. Morris (1827–1900), American Civil War general
• William Powers Morris (1844–1916) American Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor recipient on List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: M–P
• William Henry Harrison Morris Jr. (1890–1971), United States Army officer

Others

• William Morris (1889–1979), writer, archdruid of Wales
• William Morris (glass artist) (born 1957), American glass artist
• William Morris Jr. (1899–1989), American talent agent and president of the William Morris Agency
• William Morris, litblogger at A Motley Vision
• William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (1877–1963), British motor manufacturer and philanthropist
• William Morris, known as Haldreyn (born 1937), Cornish poet
• William C. Morris (born 1928 or 1929, died 2003), publisher, cf. William C. Morris Award
• William Charles Morris (1874–1940), American cartoonist
• William E. Morris (Long Island Rail Road), LIRR president from 1853 to 1862 on List of railroad executives
• William O'Connor Morris (1824–1904), Irish county court judge and historian
• Captain William Morris, a fictional character in the Richard Sharpe novels
• Billy Morris (guitarist), guitarist
• William Morris (actor) (1861–1936), stage and screen actor, father of film star Chester Morris
• William Morris (MP) (1811–1877), Liberal MP for Carmarthen Boroughs, and banker
• Willie Morris (1934–1999), American writer

Places

• William C. Morris, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Companies

• William Morris Fine Arts plc, ex-owner of Morris Singer foundry

See also

• William Morris Endeavor, a talent agency
• William Morice (disambiguation)
• William Maurice (disambiguation)
• Willie Morris (diplomat) (1919–1982), British diplomat