William Anderson

William Anderson may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

William Anderson (artist) (1757–1837), painter of marine and historical paintings
William Anderson (theatre) (1868–1940), Australian stage entrepreneur
William Anderson (1911–1986), American actor, better known as Leif Erickson
Bill Anderson (producer) (1911–1997), American producer
William West Anderson (1928–2017), known as Adam West, American actor, played Batman from 1966 to 1968
William M. Anderson (1948–2022), Northern Irish film editor
William Smith Anderson (1878–1929), Scottish painter

W. H. Anderson (1882–1955), Canadian composer, choir director, singer, and voice teacher
William K. Anderson, background music composer for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Cat Anderson (William Alonzo Anderson, 1916–1981), American jazz trumpeter

William Anderson (bookseller) (1743–1830), bookseller and five times Provost of Stirling
William J. Anderson (1811–?), American who wrote a narrative describing his life as a slave
William Charles Anderson (1920–2003), American author

William Anderson (Victorian politician, born 1828) (1828–1909), Scottish-born Victorian colonial politician, member for Villiers and Heytesbury
William Anderson (Victorian politician, born 1853) (1853–1898), Victorian colonial politician for Creswick, and Windermere
William Anderson (Tasmanian politician) (1904–1990), Australian politician from Tasmania
William Acland Douglas Anderson (1829–1882), English-born politician and goldfields commissioner in colonial Victoria, Australia

William Stafford Anderson (1884–1980), politician in New Brunswick, Canada
William Anderson (Ontario MPP) (1822–1897), Canadian politician
William Anderson (Ontario MP) (1905–1961), member of Canadian House of Commons for Waterloo South electoral district
William A. Anderson (Canadian politician) (1837–1908), Canadian politician, Ontario MPP
William Alfred Anderson, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP

William Anderson (naval officer) (1921–2007), U.S. representative from Tennessee
William Anderson (Pennsylvania politician) (1762–1829), U.S. congressman from Pennsylvania
William Anderson (Vermont politician) (1874–1959), member of the Vermont House of Representatives
William A. Anderson (1873–1954), mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
William Alexander Anderson (1842–1930), Virginia lawyer and politician
William B. Anderson (1830–1901), U.S. representative from Illinois
William Clayton Anderson (1826–1861), U.S. representative from Kentucky
William Coleman Anderson (1853–1902), U.S. representative from Tennessee
William Dozier Anderson (1862–1952), Mississippi Supreme Court justice
William Gilbert Anderson (1860–1947), American pioneer of physical education
William Hamilton Anderson (1874–c. 1959), superintendent of the New York Anti-Saloon League
William Marshall Anderson (1807–1881), American scholar, explorer and politician

William Spencer Anderson (c. 1832–1872), American-born Liberian politician and explorer
William Anderson (British politician) (1877–1919), British socialist politician
William Anderson (New Zealand politician) (1888–1978), mayor of Queenstown, New Zealand

William Anderson (collector) (1842–1900), British surgeon and collector of Japanese art who first described Anderson-Fabry disease
William Wallace Anderson, medical doctor involved in architecture of rammed earth construction in South Carolina

William Anderson (1820–1848), British Army lieutenant with the 1st Bombay Fusiliers whose murder affected the Second Anglo-Sikh War
William Anderson (Medal of Honor) (1852–1908), American sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
William Herbert Anderson (1881–1918), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
William Anderson (VC) (1885–1915), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
William Anderson (RAAF officer) (1891–1975), Australian air marshal
Maurice Anderson (1908–1986), often known as Bill Anderson, British Army medical officer
William Anderson (Canadian Army officer) (1915–2000), Canadian general
William Anderson (naval officer) (1921–2007), commander of the first nuclear submarine
William Y. Anderson (1921–2011), Swedish American fighter ace of World War II
William Lovett Anderson (1906–2004), United States Navy submarine commander

William Anderson (died 1543), one of the Perth Martyrs
William Anderson (missionary) (1769–1852), English-Anglican missionary to South Africa
William Anderson (minister) (1799–1873), Scottish theological writer and preacher
William Franklin Anderson (1860–1944), American Methodist bishop
William Harrison Anderson (1870–1950), American Seventh-Day Adventist missionary to Africa
William Anderson (bishop of Salisbury) (1892–1972), Anglican bishop of Croydon, of Portsmouth and of Salisbury, England
William White Anderson (1888–1956), Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

William Anderson (naturalist) (1750–1778), naturalist on Captain Cook's third voyage (1776–1780)
William Anderson (horticulturist) (1766–1846), Scottish horticulturist
William James Anderson (1812–1873), Scottish physician who emigrated to Canada
William Anderson (engineer) (1835–1898), British engineer and philanthropist
William Henry Anderson (1908–1997), American entomologist

Chief William Anderson, namesake of Anderson, Indiana
William Preston Anderson (1775–1831), Tennessee attorney, surveyor, soldier, land speculator
William Caldwell Anderson (1804–1870), president of Miami University
William Anderson (judge) (1847–1908), British barrister and colonial judge
William P. Anderson (1851–1927), Canadian civil engineer
W. B. Anderson (1877–1959), Scottish classicist and academic
William Anderson (political scientist) (1888–1975), professor at University of Minnesota
William S. Anderson (1919–2021), president and chairman of the National Cash Register Corp, 1972–1984
Eric Anderson (teacher) (William Kinloch Anderson, 1936–2020), Provost of Eton College, 2000–2009

USS William G. Anderson, a barque used by the Union Navy during the American Civil Wa