William Woods

William, Bill or Billy Woods may refer to:

Politicians

• William Woods (congressman) (1790–1837), American lawyer from New York, served 1823–1825
• William Burnham Woods (1824–1887), American jurist and Civil War general from Ohio
• William Cleaver Woods (1852–1943), Australian pioneering physician
• William Carlton Woods (1891–1965), Canadian farmer from Saskatchewan
• William Woods (Irish politician) (before 1935—1966), independent member of Seanad Éireann

Sportsmen

• Bill Woods (Australian footballer) (1890–1972), player with Geelong in VFL
• Willie Woods (1898–1927), American baseball outfielder in 1920s Negro leagues
• Billy Woods (New Zealand footballer), international level player in 1947
• Billy Woods (1926–1980), English footballer who played in 1949–50 Rochdale A.F.C. season
• Billy Woods (Irish footballer) (born 1973), winger, later coach with Cork City
• William Woods (baseball) (born 1998), American professional baseball pitcher

Others

• William Woods (officer of arms) (1785–1842), British Clarenceux King of Arms in 1831, promoted to Garter in 1838
• William Allen Woods (1837–1901), American federal judge
• William Maitland Woods (1864–1927), English Anglican minister and military chaplain in Australia
• William Aaron Woods (born 1942), American researcher in natural language processing and semantics
• William E. Woods (1949–2008), American gay rights activist in Hawaii
• Bill Woods (born 1962), Australian television broadcaster
• Billy Woods, American hip-hop artist, active since 1990s

See also

• William Woods Holden (1818–1892), governor of North Carolina, 1865 and 1868–1871
• William Woods University, American university in Fulton, Missouri, established 1870
• William Wood (disambiguation)