William Wells

William Wells may refer to:

Military

• William Wells (general) (1837-1892), U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient for the Battle of Gettysburg
• William Wells (Medal of Honor) (b. 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 (football player), or William Prescott Wells (1931–2001), American professional football player
• William Thomas Wells (1889-1967), or "Bombardier Billy Wells", English heavyweight boxer
• William Wells (boxer) (b. 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, or 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) (b. 1810), member of New Zealand Parliament
• William Wells (1818-1889), 19th century British Member of Parliament for Beverley

Other fields

• William Charles Wells (1757–1817), Scottish-American physician and printer
• William Frederick Wells (1762-1836), English watercolour painter and etcher
• William G. Wells (b. 1971), American writer and editor
• William Wells (bishop) (d. 1444), English Roman Catholic Bishop of Rochester

See also

• Welles (name)
• Wells (name)