William Turner

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. 1866–?), Scottish international footballer
• William Turner (footballer, born 1867) (1867–?), Welsh international footballer
• Bill Turner (footballer, born 1894) (1894–1970), English footballer
• Bill Turner (English footballer, born 1901) (1901–1989), British footballer

Australian rules football

• Bill Turner (footballer, born 1870) (1870–1952), Australian rules footballer for St Kilda
• Bill Turner (Australian footballer, born 1901) (1901–1967), Australian rules footballer for Fitzroy
• Bill Turner (footballer, born 1912) (1912–1981), Australian rules footballer for Essendon

Other sports

• Aggie Turner (William Turner, 1893–1916), American baseball player
• Billy Turner (William H. Turner Jr., 1940–2021), American racehorse trainer
• Bill Turner (basketball) (1944–2023), American basketball player
• Willie Turner (sprinter) (born 1948), American sprinter
• Bill Turner (American football) (born 1960), American football player
• Billy Turner (American football) (born 1991), American football player

Others

• William Turner (envoy) (1792–1867), British diplomat and author
• William Iredell Turner (1812–1881), Florida pioneer and soldier
• William Turner (anatomist) (1832–1916), Scottish academic
• William Thomas Turner (1856–1933), final captain of the RMS Lusitania
• Bill Turner (public servant) (1887–1959), Australian public servant; Comptroller-General of Customs
• William Irving Turner (1890–1950), American architect
• William B. Turner (1892–1918), U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient
• William Turner (1902/03–1921), 18-year-old lynching victim from Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas, see lynching of William Turner
• William Turner (British Army officer) (1907–1989)
• William W. Turner (1927–2015), American writer and former FBI agent

In fiction

• Bootstrap Bill Turner, father of Will Turner in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean films
• Will Turner, fictional character in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean films