William Higgins may refer to:

Sports

  • Alexander Higgins (footballer, born 1870) (William Alexander Higgins, 1870–?), English footballer
  • William Higgins (English cricketer) (1850–1926), English cricketer
  • William Higgins (New Zealand cricketer) (1888–1968), New Zealand cricketer
  • William Higgins (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1900s for Wales League XIII, and Ebbw Vale
  • William Higgins (tennis), American tennis player of the 1960s and 1970s
  • William S. Higgins (1894–1944), American college football player, coach, and official, college basketball coach, and dentist
  • Bill Higgins (baseball) (1859–1919), American baseball player
  • Bill Higgins (basketball) (born 1952), American basketball player
  • Bill Higgins (hurler), Irish hurler
  • Billy Higgins (karateka) (born 1945), British karateka
  • Billy Higgins (Scottish footballer) (born 1940), Scottish footballer
  • Billy Higgins (English footballer) (1924–1981), English football winger

Politicians

  • William J. Higgins (1880–1943), lawyer, judge and political figure in Newfoundland
  • William L. Higgins (1867–1951), U.S. Representative from Connecticut

Others

  • William Higgins (chemist) (1763–1825), Irish chemist
  • William Higgins (director) (1942–2019), American director of gay pornographic films
  • William R. Higgins (1945–1990), United States Marine Corps colonel, killed in Lebanon
  • William Victor Higgins (1884–1949), American painter and teacher
  • Billy Higgins (vaudeville) (1888–1937), American vaudeville entertainer
  • Billy Higgins (1936–2001), American jazz drummer
  • William Higgins (high constable), first high constable of Toronto
  • William Higgins (priest) (died 1666), Anglican priest

See also

  • William Higgins Coleman (1812–1863), English botanist