William Bell

Arts and entertainment

William Bell (artist) (1735–1794), English portrait painter
William Bell (architect) (1789–1865), Scottish-born architect who practiced in North Carolina
William Bell (photographer) (1830–1910), English-born American photographer
William Henry Bell (1873–1946), English composer
William Bell (tuba player) (1902–1971), American tuba player and teacher
William J. Bell (1927–2005), American writer and producer of TV soap operas
William Bell (singer) (born 1939), American soul singer and songwriter
William Bell (author) (1945–2016), Canadian young adult fiction author
William Brent Bell, American film director
William Bell (Fringe), character from the 2008–2013 TV series Fringe

William Bell (lawyer) (c. 1538–1598), English lawyer
William Bell (apothecary) (died 1668), English apothecary and politician who sat in the House of Commons
Cory Bell (William Cory Heward Bell, 1875–1961), British MP for Devizes

William Bell Jr. (politician) (1828–1902), American politician from Ohio
William H. Bell (Wisconsin politician) (1863–1937), American politician from Wisconsin
William A. Bell (born 1949), mayor of Birmingham, Alabama

William R. Bell (1876–1927), Australian colonial District Officer in the Solomon Islands, assassinated
William Henry Dillon Bell (1884–1917), New Zealand politician
William Henry Bell (businessman) (fl. 1930s), British businessman and politician in Hong Kong
William F. Bell (1938–2013), Canadian politician; mayor of Richmond Hill, Ontario
William Montgomerie Bell (1813–1867), merchant and politician in colonial Victoria, Australia

William Bell (bishop) (died 1343), Scottish Bishop of St Andrews
William Bell (priest) (1625–1683), English archdeacon of St Albans and sermon writer
William Bell (field preacher) (fl. 1670s), Scottish minister and prisoner on the Bass Rock
William Bell (theologian) (1731–1816), English theologian
William Bell (clergyman) (1780–1857), Scottish-born Presbyterian minister in Upper Canada
William Yancy Bell (1887–1962), American bishop for the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

William Bell (Welsh footballer) (1860–1930), Welsh footballer
William Bell (English footballer) (1905–1937), English footballer (Sheffield United, Grimsby Town, Hull City)
Willie Bell (1937–2023), Scottish football player and manager

William P. Bell (1886–1953), American golf course architect
Billy Bell (ice hockey) (1891–1952), Canadian ice hockey player
William Bell (baseball) (1897–1969), American Negro league baseball pitcher and manager
William M. Bell (1909–1991), American football player and coach
William Bell Jr. (baseball) (1930–2021), American Negro league baseball pitcher
William Bell (American football) (born 1971), American football player
William Lawrence Bell, Jr (pickleball) (1924–2006), one of the creators of the racket sport pickleball

William Bell (East India Company), East India Company factor in Iran; his grave being the oldest British grave in Iran
William Bell (Canadian businessman, born 1806) (1806–1844), Canadian businessman and militia officer
William Nathaniel Bell (1817–1887), American pioneer; settled Seattle, Washington
William Abraham Bell (1841–1921), English physician and photographer of the American west; founder of Manitou Springs, Colorado
William Augustus Bell (1882–1961), American businessman, educator, and president of Miles College in Alabama
William Robert Bell (1845–1913), Canadian militia officer, farmer, and businessman
William H. Bell (fl. 1860s), African-American servant of William Seward
William Harrison Bell (1927–2016), American oral and maxillofacial surgeon
William Dwane Bell (born 1978), New Zealand criminal
William J. Bell (entomologist) (1943–1998), American entomologist
William Francis Bell (1918–1984), American golf course architect

William Bell, No. 24, 1865 pilot boat used by the Sandy Hook pilots in New Jersey