Wild Bill may refer to:

Places

  • Wild Bill Lake, a lake in Montana

People

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  • Wild Bill Hickok (1837–1876), folk hero of the American Old West
  • William L. Carlisle (1890–1964), train robber of the American West
  • Wild Bill Claiborne (1872–1933), American college football player
  • William Cutolo (1949–1999), New York mobster
  • Wild Bill Davis (1918–1995), jazz organist
  • Bill Davison (1906–1989), jazz cornet player
  • William Edward Donovan (1876–1923), American professional baseball pitcher and manager
  • William Joseph Donovan (1883–1959), American soldier, lawyer, and intelligence officer, founder of the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency
  • William O. Douglas (1898–1980), Supreme Court Justice
  • Wild Bill Elliott (1904–1965), American actor who specialized in Western film roles
  • Bill Elliott (born 1955), 1988 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Champion and twice Daytona 500 winner
  • Wild Bill Gelbke (born 1938), American engineer and motorcycle designer
  • William Guarnere (1923–2014), American soldier in the 101st Airborne during World War II, made famous by the mini-series Band of Brothers
  • Wild Bill Hagy (1939–2007), American baseball fan who led cheers for the Baltimore Orioles
  • Bill Hallahan (1902–1981), American baseball pitcher
  • William Adams Wild Bill Hickman (1815–1883), frontiersman, ex-Mormon, and purported murderer
  • Bill Hickok (American football) (1874–1933), American football player and businessman
  • William Dathan Holbert (born 1979), American serial killer
  • William Hopson (died 1928), American pilot
  • Bill Hunter (ice hockey) (1920–2002), Canadian hockey player, general manager and coach
  • Bill Hutchison (baseball) (1859–1926), American baseball pitcher
  • Wild Bill Irwin (born 1954), American professional wrestler
  • William Karlsson (born 1993), Swedish professional ice hockey player
  • William Kocay, Canadian professor and graph theorist
  • William Langer (1886–1959), governor and senator from North Dakota
  • Bill Longley (gunfighter) (1851–1878), outlaw of the old American West
  • Wild Bill Longson (1906–1982), American professional wrestler
  • Bill Lovett (c. 1894–1923), Irish-American gangster in New York
  • Wild Bill Luhrsen (1884–1973), American baseball pitcher
  • Wild Bill Moore (1918–1983), American R&B and jazz saxophone player
  • Wild Bill Shrewsberry (born 1938), American drag racer
  • Bill Stealey (born 1947), retired U.S. Air Force pilot and computer game producer
  • Wild Bill Widner (1867–1908), American baseball pitcher
  • Billy Wiles (born 1971), an American professional wrestler

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Wild Bill (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
  • Wild Bill (1995 film), about the legendary gunfighter
  • Wild Bill (2011 film), directorial debut of English actor Dexter Fletcher
  • Wild Bill (TV series), a 2019 ITV television series