William Turner
Wikimedia disambiguation page
William, Bill, or Billy Turner may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
William Turner (composer) (1651–1740), English baroque composer
J. M. W. Turner (William Turner, 1775–1851), English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker
William Turner (painter) (1789–1862), English watercolour painter
William Greene Turner (1833–1917), American sculptor
William H. Turner (actor) (1861–1942), Irish actor
William Lakin Turner (1867–1936), English landscape artist
William Ralph Turner (1920–2013), English painter
William J. G. Turner (1952–1987), American composer and stage director
Law and politics
William Turner (London MP) (1615–1693), British member of parliament for City of London and lord mayor of London
William Turner (Blackburn MP) (1777–1842), British member of parliament for Blackburn
William F. Turner (1816–1899), judge in the Territory of Arizona
William D. Turner (1836–1905), Wisconsin state assemblyman
William Turner (Australian politician) (1837–1916), New South Wales politician
William V. Turner (fl. 1871), American state representative in Alabama
William George Turner (1872–1937), Irish Lord Mayor of Belfast
William H. Turner (politician) (1931–2002), African-American school board member and state senator from Miami, Florida
Religion
William Turner (minister at Wakefield) (1714–1794), English dissenting divine
William Turner (Unitarian minister) (1761–1859), English Unitarian minister
William Turner (biographer) (1788–1853), English Unitarian minister
William Turner (bishop of Salford) (1799–1872), English Roman Catholic bishop and vicar apostolic
William Turner (bishop of Galloway) (1844–1914), Scottish Roman Catholic bishop
William Turner (bishop of Buffalo) (1871–1936), Irish-American Roman Catholic bishop
William Turner (priest) (1647–1685), English Anglican priest
Science and medicine
William Turner (naturalist) (c. 1508–1568), English ornithologist and botanist; dean of Wells Cathedral
William Wadden Turner (1810–1859), British-born American linguist and librarian
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1928), British botanist
William Aldren Turner (1864–1945), British neurologist
W. E. S. Turner (William Ernest Stephen Turner, 1881–1963), English chemist and glass technologist
Sports
Association football (soccer)
Willie Turner (footballer) (c.
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