William Gray

William, Willie, Bill, or Billy Gray may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • William S. Gray (film editor) (1896–1946), American film editor
  • Billy Gray (comedian) (1904–1978), American comedian, comedy club owner, and actor
  • Billy Gray (actor) (born 1938), American actor who portrayed teenager Bud Anderson on TV's Father Knows Best

Politics and law

  • William Gray (Massachusetts politician) (1750–1825), American politician and merchant
  • William Gray (Conservative politician) (1814–1895), British mill owner and Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton 1857–1874
  • William Gray (Canadian politician) (1862–1916), politician in Ontario, Canada
  • William Gray (Lord Provost) (1928–2000), Lord Provost of Glasgow, 1972–1975
  • William Gray (New Mexico politician) (born 1940), American state legislator in New Mexico
  • William B. Gray (1942–1994), American attorney and politician
  • William Bain Gray, British colonial administrator and civil servant
  • William E. Gray, state legislator in Arkansas
  • William H. Gray (Mississippi politician) (1841–1919), Baptist minister and state legislator in Mississippi
  • William H. Gray (Oregon politician) (1810–1889), American pioneer of Oregon Country
  • William H. Gray III (1941–2013), American Democrat from Pennsylvania
  • Wilfred James "Bill" Gray, Australian government official, specialist in Aboriginal matters
  • William Percival Gray (1912–1992), U.S. federal judge

Religion

  • William Gray (priest) (1874–1960), Anglican clergyman
  • William Crane Gray (1835–1919), American religious figure; first bishop of the Episcopal Church's Missionary Jurisdiction
  • William Henry Gray (1825–1908), Scottish minister

Sports

American football

  • Bill Gray (offensive lineman) (1922–2011), American offensive lineman for the Washington Redskins
  • Bill Gray (Canadian football) (fl. 1960s), Canadian football running back
  • Bill Gray (American football coach) (fl. 1990s–2000s), American football and tennis coach

Baseball

  • Bill Gray (baseball) (1871–1932), American Major League Baseball player, 1890–1898
  • Dolly Gray (baseball) (William Denton Gray, 1878–1956), American Major League Baseball pitcher for the Washington Senators, 1909–1911
  • Willie Gray (fl. 1920–1937), American baseball player

Other sports

  • William Gray (jockey) (fl. 1870), British Champion flat jockey
  • William Gray (cricketer) (1864–1898), English cricketer
  • Bill Gray (footballer) (1882–1916), Scottish footballer with Partick Thistle and Southampton in the 1900s
  • Bill Gray (rugby union), (1932–1993), New Zealand rugby union player
  • Billy Gray (footballer) (1927–2011), English footballer
  • Billy Gray (horse trainer) (died 2016), horse trainer

Writing and academics

  • William Forbes Gray (1874–1950), Scottish journalist and author
  • William G. Gray (1913–1992), English occultist, author and mystic
  • William M. Gray (1929–2016), American professor of atmospheric science
  • William S. Gray (1885–1960), American academic, authority on the teaching of reading

Other fields

  • William John Gray, 13th Lord Gray (1754–1807), Scottish nobleman and soldier
  • W. H. Gray (William Henry Gray, 1808–1896), pioneer colonist of South Australia
  • William Gray (inventor) (1850–1903), American inventor and entrepreneur, inventor of the payphone and the baseball chest protector
  • William Gray (architect) (1851–1927), American architect
  • William Gray (RAF officer) (1898–?), First World War flying ace
  • one of the founders of William Gray & Company, a British shipbuilding company, established in 1863
  • Bill Gray, co-founder (with his wife) of Bill Gray's, an American chain of fast-food restaurants based in New York State

See also

  • All pages with titles containing William Gray
  • William Grey (disambiguation)
  • William Grayson (disambiguation)
  • Gray (surname)
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