William Wells may refer to:

Military

  • William Wells (general) (1837–1892), U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient for the Battle of Gettysburg
  • William Wells (sailor) (1832–1868), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
  • William Wells (soldier) (1770–1812), American army officer and adopted member of the Miami tribe
  • William Lewis Wells (1895–1918), World War I flying ace

Music

  • Bill Wells (musician) (born c. 1963), Scottish musician
  • Dicky Wells (William Wells, 1907–1985), American jazz trombonist

Sports

  • Billy Wells (American football) (William Prescott Wells, 1931–2001), American professional football player
  • Bombardier Billy Wells (William Thomas Wells, 1889–1967), English heavyweight boxer
  • William Wells (boxer) (1936–2008), British Olympic boxer
  • Willie Wells (1906–1989), American professional baseball player
  • Willie Wells Jr. (1922–1994), American professional baseball player
  • Bill Wells (footballer) (1920–2013), Australian rules footballer
  • Billy Wells (footballer) (1916–1984), Australian rules footballer
  • Bill Wells (rugby union)

Politics

  • William Benjamin Wells (1809–1881), Canadian lawyer, judge, journalist and politician
  • William H. Wells (1769–1829), American lawyer and U.S. senator from Delaware
  • William S. Wells (1848–1916), member of the Maine House of Representatives
  • William Wells (1908–1990), barrister, MP for Walsall North from 1945–74
  • William Wells (New Zealand politician) (1810–1893), member of the New Zealand Parliament
  • William Wells (1818–1889), British Liberal member of parliament

Religion

  • William Wells (bishop) (died 1444), English Roman Catholic bishop of Rochester
  • William Wells (priest) (died 1675), English Church of England archdeacon of Colchester
  • William Wells (minister) (1744–1827), minister and farmer

Other fields

  • William Charles Wells (1757–1817), Scottish-American physician and printer
  • William F. Wells (1886–1963), American scientist and sanitary engineer
  • William Frederick Wells (1762–1836), English watercolour painter and etcher
  • William H. Wells (educator) (1812–1865), educator who served as superintendent of Chicago Public Schools
  • William Wells (whaling master) (1815–1880), English captain of whaling ships
  • William George Wells (1939–2021), chief Scout commissioner of Scouts Australia
  • William Wells (cricketer) (1881–1939), English cricketer
  • William Storrs Wells (1849–1926), American businessman, prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age
  • William Edward Wells (born 1975), American serial killer and mass murderer
  • William Andrew Noye Wells (1919–2004), barrister and judge in South Australia
  • William Vincent Wells (1826–1876), American author and journalist

See also

  • Welles (name)
  • Wells (name)