William Jackson

William Jackson may refer to:

• William Jackson (organist born 1730) (1730–1803), referred to as Jackson of Exeter, English organist and composer
• William Jackson of Masham (1815–1866), English organist and composer
• William Henry Jackson (1843–1942), early photographer of the American West
• William Jackson (Scottish composer) (born 1955), Scottish composer
• William F. Jackson (1850–1936), American painter and art curator

• William Jackson (born 1963), British businessman and philanthropist, founder of Bridgepoint Group
• William Jackson Food Group, food manufacturer in the United Kingdom

• William Jackson (pirate) (fl. 1639–1645), British pirate
• William Lowther Jackson (1825–1890), American Confederate general
• William Hicks Jackson (1835–1903), American Confederate general
• William Payne Jackson (1868–1945), U.S. Army general
• William Jackson (Australian soldier) (1897–1959), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Sir William Jackson (British Army officer) (1917–1999), British general, Governor of Gibraltar, military historian, and author
• William Francis Jackson (1886–1964), British Army officer

• William Jackson (fl. 1601–1604), MP for Guildford and Haslemere
• Sir William Jackson, 1st Baronet (1805–1876), British MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme and Derbyshire North
• William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton (1840–1917), English politician, Member of Parliament for Leeds
• William Jackson, 1st Baron Jackson (1893–1954), Member of Parliament for Brecon and Radnorshire, 1939–1945

• William Jackson (secretary) (1759–1828), Secretary to the Philadelphia Convention and member of the U.S. Continental Army
• William Jackson (Massachusetts politician, born 1783) (1783–1855), US Congressman from Massachusetts
• William Terry Jackson (1794–1882), U.S. Representative from New York
• William Jackson (Saugus, Massachusetts), English-American pottery manufacturer and politician of the 1820s
• William A. Jackson, Black dispatches spy during the American Civil War
• William Humphreys Jackson (1839–1915), congressman from Maryland
• William P. Jackson (1868–1939), member of the United States Senate from Maryland
• William S. Jackson (died 1932), New York State Attorney General, 1907–1908
• William T. Jackson (Ohio politician) (1876–1933), mayor of Toledo, Ohio
• William Harding Jackson (1901–1971), United States National Security Advisor
• William H. Jackson (judge) (1864–1938), judge of the United States District Court for the Canal Zone
• William M. Jackson (judge) (born 1953), associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
• William S. Jackson (judge) (1889–1981), associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court

• William Jackson (New Zealand politician) (1832–1889), New Zealand politician
• William Jackson (Canadian politician) (1858–1938), Canadian Member of Parliament
• William Jackson (Canadian administrator)

• William Jackson (journalist) (1737–1795), Irish preacher, journalist, playwright, radical, and spy
• William Jackson (bishop) (1751–1815), bishop of Oxford
• William Jackson (Archdeacon of Carlisle) (1792–1878), priest and academic
• William Jackson (Dean of Killala) (died 1885), Anglican priest in Ireland
• William Walrond Jackson (1811–1895), Bishop of Antigua 1860–1879
• William Jackson (Archdeacon of Killala) (died 1903)
• William Jackson (priest) (1838–1931), Rector of Exeter College, Oxford
• Ernest Jackson (priest) (William Ernest Jackson), 20th century Canadian Anglican priest
• William Henry Jackson (priest) (1889–1931), Anglican priest, missionary, and inventor of Burmese Braille

• William Jackson (engineer) (1848–1910), Boston, Massachusetts city engineer, 1885–1910
• William Jackson (inventor) (1849–1915), Scottish mechanical engineer
• William Elvin Jackson (1904–1972), American aviation electronics engineer
• William M. Jackson (chemist) (born 1936), American researcher

• William Jackson (curler) (1871–1955), Scottish winner of the first Olympic gold medal in curling, Chamonix, 1924
• William Jackson (footballer) (1876–1954), Newton Heath F.C., Burnley F.C. and Wales international footballer
• Bill Jackson (first baseman) (William Riley Jackson, 1881–1958), American first baseman for the Chicago Whales
• William Jackson (pitcher) (fl. 1890–1906), American pitcher and outfielder for early minor leagues and Negro leagues
• William Jackson III (born 1992), American football player

• William Jackson (Boston loyalist) (1731–1810), American Revolutionary era loyalist
• William Jackson (gangster) (1901–1961), American loan shark, enforcer and murder victim
• William K. Jackson (1913–2003), American architect, co-founder of KBJ Architects
• William Turrentine Jackson (1915–2000), American professor of history
• William Perry Jackson (born 1955), American serial killer

• Bill Jackson (disambiguation)
• Willie Jackson (disambiguation)
• Will Jackson (disambiguation)