William, Willie, Will or Bill Kelly may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Bill Kelly (writer), American screenwriter
  • William Kelly (artist), American artist
  • Roosevelt Sykes (1906–1983), American blues musician, stage name "Willie Kelly"

Politics

  • William Kelly (Alabama politician) (1786–1834), Alabama politician and U.S. senator
  • William Kelly (New York state senator) (1807–1872), New York politician
  • William W. J. Kelly (1814–1878), lieutenant governor of Florida
  • William Moore Kelly (1827–1888), businessman and politician in New Brunswick
  • William Kelly (New Zealand politician) (1840–1907), New Zealand member of parliament
  • William Kelly (Labour politician) (1874–1944), British Labour politician
  • William Kelly (New South Wales politician) (1875–1932), Australian politician
  • Willie Kelly (politician) (1877–1960), Australian politician
  • William Osmund Kelly (1909–1974), mayor of Flint, Michigan
  • William McDonough Kelly (1925–2013), political strategist and Canadian senator
  • William Nelson Kelly (1939–2023), member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
  • Bill Kelly (politician), politician in Lapeer, Michigan

Sports

American football

  • Bill Kelly (quarterback) (1905–1931), American football player at the University of Montana and in the NFL
  • Bill Kelly (American football, born 1947) (1947–2023), American football player and coach
  • Kenneth Kelly (1905–1984), nicknamed "Bill", American football player and coach, head coach at Central Michigan University, 1951–1966

Australian rules football

  • Bill Kelly (footballer, born 1882) (1882–1961), Australian rules footballer for Fitzroy
  • Bill Kelly (footballer, born 1930) (born 1930), Australian rules footballer for Footscray
  • Will Kelly (Australian footballer) (born 2000), Australian rules footballer for Collingwood

Baseball

  • Bill Kelly (outfielder), 19th-century American baseball player
  • Bill Kelly (first baseman) (1898–1990), American baseball player
  • Billy Kelly (baseball) (William Joseph Kelly, 1886–1940), American baseball player
  • William Kelly (baseball), Negro league baseball player

Other sports

  • Bill Kelly (rugby league) (1892–1975), New Zealand rugby league footballer and coach
  • Will Kelly (rugby union) (born 1997), Canadian rugby union player
  • William Kelly (Victoria cricketer) (1875–1968), Australian cricketer
  • William Harvey Kelly (1883–1944), Australian cricketer
  • William Kelly (1910s footballer) (1890-1920), English footballer for Newcastle United and Manchester City, see List of Manchester City F.C. players (1–24 appearances)
  • Brian Kelly (footballer, born 1937) (William Brian Kelly, 1937–2013), English footballer
  • Willie Kelly (footballer) (1922–1996), Scottish footballer for Airdrieonians and Blackburn Rovers
  • Billy Kelly (boxer) (William Kelly, 1932–2010), boxer from Northern Ireland

Others

  • William Kelly (biblical scholar) (1821–1906), classicist and Biblical expositor
  • William Kelly (inventor) (1811–1888), American inventor of a steel smelting process
  • William Bernard Kelly (1855–1921), Australian bishop of the Catholic Church
  • William Henderson Kelly (1902–1980), American professor of anthropology
  • William Russell Kelly, founder of the American temporary staffing agency, Kelly Services

See also

  • William Kelly's War, a 2014 film
  • Billy Kelly (disambiguation)
  • William Kelley (disambiguation)