William Stanley

William Stanley or Bill Stanley may refer to:

Politicians and noblemen

William Stanley, 3rd Baron Monteagle (1528–1581), English politician, MP for Lancashire
William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby (1561–1642), English politician
William Stanley, 9th Earl of Derby (c. 1655 – 1702), English politician
William Stanley (MP for Southampton) (1610–1678), English merchant and politician
William Stanley (1640–1670), English politician, MP for Liverpool
William Owen Stanley (1802–1884), British MP and lord lieutenant of Anglesey
William Eugene Stanley (1844–1910), American politician, Governor of Kansas
William Stillman Stanley Jr. (1838–?), Wisconsin jeweler and legislator
Bill Stanley (politician) (William M. Stanley Jr., born 1967), American politician

William Stanley (soldier) (died 1495), English leader in the Wars of the Roses
William Stanley (born 1548), English officer under Elizabeth I
William A. Stanley (1831–?), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient

William Stanley (composer) (1820–1902), English-born Australian classical music composer
William Stanley (inventor) (1829–1909), British architect and inventor
William Stanley (priest) (1647–1731), English churchman and college head
William Stanley (Hawaii judge) (1872–1939), Irish lawyer and judge of the Republic of Hawaii
William Stanley (football manager), British footballer and first manager of Coventry City F.C.
William O. Stanley (William Oliver Stanley, Jr., fl. 1930s), American professor
William Stanley Jr. (1858–1916), American physicist
Bill Stanley (American football) (fl. 1924)
Bill Stanley (mammalogist) (William T. Stanley, c. 1957–2015)
Bill Stanley (javelin thrower) (born 1994), American javelin thrower, 2013 All-American for the Ohio State Buckeyes track and field team
William Stanley Hoole (1903–1990), pen name Will Stanley, American librarian, historian, writer, and professor