William Brown (or Browne) may refer to (some of whom were also called 'Bill'):

Politicians

• William Brown (congressman) (1779-1833), U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1819â€"1821
• William J. Brown (Indiana) (1805-1857), U.S. Representative from Indiana
• William G. Brown, U.S., Virginia and West Virginia congressman
• William G. Brown, Jr., U.S., West Virginia congressman, son of William G. Brown
• William Wallace Brown (1836â€"1926), U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (Republican)
• William R. Brown (1840-1916), U.S. Representative from Kansas
• William M. Brown (1850â€"1915), U.S. Republican Lt.-Governor of Pennsylvania, electee to the U.S. House of Representatives
• William Brown (Manitoba politician), Canadian politician in Manitoba, 1922â€"1927
• William Brown (UK politician) (1894â€"1960), UK Member of Parliament for Rugby 1942â€"1950
• William John Brown (1894-1960), UK politician and Member of Parliament (MP)
• William Robson Brown (1900â€"1975), UK Conservative politician
• William Holmes Brown, United States House of Representatives, 1974 to 1994

Other

• William Browne (1590?â€"1645?), English poet
• William Brown (soldier) (born c. 1755), American Revolutionary War soldier
• William Laurence Brown (1755-1830), Scottish divine (theologian)
• William Hill Brown (1765-1793), an American novelist.
• William Brown (clergyman) (1766â€"1835), Scottish clergyman and hebraist
• William Brown (admiral) (or Guillermo Brown) (1777â€"1857), Irish-born Argentine Navy admiral
• Sir William Brown, 1st Baronet of Astrop (1784-1864), British merchant and banker
• William Phineas Browne (1804â€"1869), American lawyer and coal mining pioneer
• William Brown (sailor) (birth name unknown), Black woman who served in the Royal Navy 1815, disguised as a man
• William Wells Brown (1814â€"1884), African American writer and abolitionist
• William Brown (musician) (1822-1900) Influential pianist
• William H. Brown (1836-1896), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
• William Jethro Brown (1868â€"1930), Australian jurist and professor of law.
• William D. Brown, (1813-1868), founder of Omaha, Nebraska.
• William Slater Brown (1897-1997), friend of poet E. E. Cummings; the character "B." in Cumming's memoir/novel The Enormous Room.
• Major William D. Browne, U.S. Army officer, famous for re-discovering Nazi membership files in 1945
• William Brown (fictional boy), fictional schoolboy character from Just William
• William Maurice Brown (1910 - 1975), Lt. Colonel; first principal of Faujdarhat Cadet College
• William Brown (bridge designer) (1928â€"2005), British bridge designer
• William H. Brown Jr., American television director
• William Brown (tennis), a pro tennis player from the early 1970s
• William Brown (New Zealand), with business partner John Logan Campbell, first Europeans to settle Auckland, N.Z.
• William Stuart Brown (1952-2004), Australian diplomat and convicted child molester
• William Andreas Brown (b. 1930), U.S. Ambassador to Israel (1988-1992)
• William J. Brown, Ohio Attorney General, elected 1970
• William C. Brown (1916-1999), American electrical engineer
• William E. Brown, First African-American Archbishop in the state of Virginia
• William M. Browne (1827-1883), American cabinet member of Confederate States Army

or:

• William Brown (ship), an American ship which struck an iceberg and sank April 19, 1841 while traveling between Liverpool and her home port of Philadelphia.

Bill Brown

The variant Bill Brown may refer to the following (some of whom were born 'William'):

• Bill Brown (cricketer) (born 1912), Australian cricketer
• Bill Brown (goalkeeper) (1931â€"2004), Scots/English goalkeeper
• Bill Brown (football) (born 1938), American football running back
• Bill Brown (critical theory), American author and professor of English at the University of Chicago
• Bill Brown (composer) (born 1969), American composer
• Bill Brown (politician) (born 1973), Canadian city councillor at Dryden, Ontario
• Bill Brown (radio personality) (born 1942), Air Personality on WCBS FM, New York City from 1969 to 2005
• Bill Brown (filmmaker), American filmmaker and author
• Bill Brown (broadcaster), American baseball broadcaster and member of the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame
• Bill Brown (athlete), American middle distance runner
• Bill Brown (Australian rules footballer), Australian footballer

See also

• Willie Brown - disambiguation page

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