William or Will or Willie Harris may refer to:

Politicians and political activists

  • William Harris (born 1504) (1504–?), MP for Newport, Cornwall
  • William Harris (died 1556), MP for Maldon
  • William Harris (MP, died 1709) (c. 1652–1709), English landowner and member of parliament for St Ives, and for Okehampton
  • William Harris (Birmingham Liberal) (1826–1911), Liberal Party politician and strategist, architect, and writer, in Birmingham, England
  • William Harris (civil rights leader) (1867–1931), Australian advocate for Aboriginal rights
  • William Harris (Symbionese Liberation Army), 20th-century American militant
  • William A. Harris (Kansas politician) (William Alexander Harris, 1841–1909), U.S. representative from Kansas
  • William Alexander Harris (Virginia politician) (1805–1864), U.S. representative from Virginia
  • William C. Harris (Illinois politician) (1921–2004), American politician
  • William J. Harris (1868–1932), U.S. senator from Georgia
  • William Littleton Harris (1807–1868), justice of the Mississippi Court of Errors and Appeals
  • William L. Harris (1923–2013), American politician
  • William James Harris (1835–1911), Conservative Party politician
  • William R. Harris (1803–1858), justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court
  • William Harris (New York politician), American businessman and politician from New York
  • Bill Harris (lobbyist) (William D. Harris), American lobbyist

Sportsmen

  • William Harris (American football) (1965–2014), American football tight end
  • Will Harris (American football), American football cornerback
  • Bill Harris (swimmer) (William White Harris Jr., 1897–1961), American swimmer and Olympic bronze medallist
  • William Harris (tennis) (1947–2002), American tennis player
  • William Harris (cricketer, born 1861) (1861–1923), English cricketer
  • William Harris (cricketer, born 1864) (1864–1949), English cricketer
  • William Harris (cricketer, born 1883) (1883–1967), English cricketer
  • William Harris (footballer) (1890–?), Scottish footballer
  • William Harris (rugby union) (1876–1950), New Zealand rugby union player
  • Will Harris (baseball) (born 1984), baseball player
  • Willie Harris (born 1978), baseball player
  • Will Harris (rugby union) (born 2000), Australian rugby union player
  • Will Harris (footballer) (born 2000), English footballer
  • Bill Harris (1930s pitcher) (William Milton Harris, 1900–1965), American baseball pitcher for the Reds, Pirates, and Red Sox
  • Bill Harris (1950s pitcher) (William Thomas Harris, 1931–2011), Canadian baseball pitcher for the Dodgers
  • Bill Harris (Australian footballer) (William James Harris, 1877–1957), Australian footballer (Australian rules)
  • Bill Harris (New Zealand footballer) (William Harris), New Zealand footballer
  • Bill Harris (Welsh footballer) (William Charles Harris, 1928–1989), Welsh international footballer and manager
  • Billy Harris (American football) (William Andrew Harris Jr., born 1946), American football player
  • Billy Harris (ice hockey, born 1935) (William Edward Harris, 1935–2001), Canadian ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs
  • Billy Harris (ice hockey, born 1952) (William Edward Harris), Canadian ice hockey player for the New York Islanders

Academics and religious figures

  • William Harris (Presbyterian minister) (c.1675–1740), English divine
  • William Harris (historian) (1720–1770), English dissenting minister and historian
  • William Harris (academic) (1765–1829), president of Columbia University
  • William C. Harris (historian), professor of history at North Carolina State University
  • William Logan Harris (1817–1887), Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
  • William H. Harris (botanist) (1860–1920), Irish botanist
  • William Henry Harris (academic) (1884–1956), Welsh divine, canon and treasurer of St David's Cathedral, and professor of Welsh at St David's College, Lampeter
  • William Stewart Harris (1922–1994), English-born Australian anthropologist, journalist and Aboriginal rights advocate
  • William V. Harris (born 1938), professor of history
  • William Wadé Harris (c. 1860–1929), African evangelist
  • William S. Harris, American professor and researcher on human nutrition

Soldiers

  • William Harris (colonist) (1757–1812), figure in the American Revolution
  • William Harris, 2nd Baron Harris (1782–1845), British soldier and peer
  • William Harris, American Civil War colonel, son of Ira Harris
  • William W. Harris (Medal of Honor) (1850–1878), Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Indian Wars
  • William Frederick Harris (1918–1950), United States Marine Corps officer

Engineers, inventors and scientists

  • William Cornwallis Harris (1807–1848), English military engineer, artist and hunter
  • Sir William Gordon Harris (1912–2005), British civil engineer
  • William Snow Harris (1791–1867), invented a ship-borne lightning rod
  • William Harris, former director general of Science Foundation Ireland
  • Bill Harris (neuroscientist) (William Anthony Harris, born 1950), Canadian-born neuroscientist

Others

  • Will Harris (poet) (born 1989), British poet
  • William Harris (beachcomber) (c. 1813–1889), British escaped convict and settler in pre-colonial Nauru
  • William Harris (musician) (fl. 1927–1928), American country blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter
  • William Harris (theatrical producer) (1844–1916), American theatre producer and vaudevillian performer
  • William Harris (Tudor person) (1556–1616), English knight, landowner and incorporator in the third Virginia Company of London
  • William Harris (settler) (1610–1681), founding settler of Providence, Rhode Island
  • William Harris, 6th Earl of Malmesbury (1907–2000), British peer
  • William Critchlow Harris (1854–1913), Canadian architect
  • William C. Harris (police officer), assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 1856–1881
  • Sir William Henry Harris (1883–1973), English organist and composer
  • William H. Harris (orthopaedic surgeon) (born 1927), American orthopaedic surgeon
  • William Laurel Harris (1870–1924), American muralist and editor
  • William Lewarne Harris (1929–2013), English composer
  • William Torrey Harris (1835–1909), United States Commissioner of Education, American educator, philosopher, lexicographer
  • William Harris Jr. (1884–1946), Broadway theatrical producer
  • Bill Harris (television producer) (William Harris), American television executive
  • William Harris, founder of the Ottawa Citizen newspaper
  • William Bevan Harris, British-American comic actor, better known as Billy Bevan
  • Will Harris, the protagonist of the 2026 animated sports film Goat, voiced by Caleb McLaughlin

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See also

  • Bill Harris (disambiguation)
  • William Harries (disambiguation)
  • William Hamlyn-Harris (born 1978), Australian javelin thrower
  • William Harrison (disambiguation)