William Jones may refer to:
Academics William Jones (college principal) (1676–1725), principal of Jesus College, Oxford, 1720–1725 William Jones (philologist) (1746–1794), English judge and philologist who proposed a relationship among Indo-European languages William Jones (anthropologist) (1871–1909), Native American specialist in Algonquian languages W. H. S. Jones (William Henry Samuel Jones, 1876–1963), British author, translator and academic
Arts and entertainment William Ifor Jones (1900–1988), Welsh conductor and organist William Andrew Jones (1907–1974), actor, better known as Billy De Wolfe W. S. Jones (William Samuel Jones, 1920–2007), Welsh playwright and script writer Wil Jones (artist) (William Richard Jones, 1960–2020), Welsh portrait painter William James Jones (born 1975), American actor William Jones (game designer), American horror fiction writer and game designer William E. Jones (filmmaker) (born 1962), American experimental filmmaker
Business and industry William Jones (haberdasher) (died 1615), haberdasher, philanthropist and founder of Monmouth School, Wales William Highfield Jones (1829–1903), industrialist, local politician, author and benefactor in Wolverhampton W. Alton Jones (1891–1962), American industrialist and philanthropist Ernest Jones (trade unionist) (William Ernest Jones, 1895–1973), British trade union leader
Criminals William Jones (Australian convict) (1827–1871), Australian colony ex-convict schoolteacher William Jones (gangster) (fl. 1911), New York City criminal W. D. Jones (1916–1974), criminal who travelled with Bonnie and Clyde William Jones, the perpetrator of the murder of Jared Plesec
Military William Jones (1803–1864), Union Army lieutenant colonel, politician and owner of the Colonel William Jones House in Indiana William Jones (British Army officer) (1808–1890), British Army general William E. Jones (general) (1824–1864), Confederate cavalry general William G. Jones, colonel of the 36th Ohio Infantry Regiment William Gore Jones (1826–1888), British admiral William Jones (American sailor) (1831–?), American Union Navy sailor William Jones (VC) (1839–1913), British soldier William H. Jones (Medal of Honor) (1842–1911), American cavalry private and Medal of Honor recipient William M. Jones (1895–1969), Canadian Army officer William K. Jones (1916–1998), American Marine Corps lieutenant general William A. Jones III (1922–1969), US Air Force colonel and Medal of Honor recipient William Jones (soldier) (1836–1864), Irish-born American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
Politics and law U.K. William Jones (judge) (1566–1640), Welsh judge and English member of parliament William Jones (of Treowen) (died 1640), English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 William Jones (Parliamentarian) (fl. 1640s), Welsh lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons William Jones (law officer) (1631–1682), English lawyer and politician William Nathaniel Jones (1858–1934), Welsh Liberal politician, businessman and soldier William Jones (Arfon MP) (1859–1915), British Liberal politician Kennedy Jones (journalist) (William Kennedy Jones, 1865–1921), British journalist and member of parliament William Henry Hyndman Jones (1847–1926), British colonial judge and administrator Sir William Hollingworth Quayle Jones (1854–1925), British judge in Sierra Leone and acting governor
U.S. William Jones (deputy governor) (1624–1706), Deputy Governor of the Colony of Connecticut William Jones (governor) (1753–1822), Governor of Rhode Island, 1811–1817 William Jones (statesman) (1760–1831), fourth United States Secretary of the Navy and US congressman from Pennsylvania William Giles Jones (1808–1883), American federal judge William E. Jones (politician) (1808 or 1810–1871), justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas William J. Jones (1810–1897), justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas William Hemphill Jones (1811–1880), American politician William F. Jones (1813–1890), American politician in Indiana William C. Jones (New York politician) (1822–1877), American politician from New York William D. Jones (1830–1905), American politician in the Wisconsin State Assembly William W. Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio (1871–1875 and 1877–1879) William Theopilus Jones (1842–1882), delegate to the US Congress from the Territory of Wyoming William A. Jones (politician) (1844–?), American politician in the Wisconsin State Assembly William Atkinson Jones (1849–1918), US congressman from Virginia William G. Jones (politician), (1861–1956), state legislator in Iowa William Carey Jones (1855–1927), US congressman from Washington William Jones (Wisconsin politician) (1894–1977) William Moseley Jones (1905–1988), American politician in the California State Assembly William Blakely Jones (1907–1979), American federal judge Burt Jones (William Burton Jones, born 1979), lieutenant governor of Georgia William H. Jones (South Carolina politician), state legislator in South Carolina William H. Jones (Mississippi politician), state legislator William N. Jones (1926–2018), member of the Utah State Senate
Elsewhere William Jones (Welsh radical) (1726–1795), Welsh political radical William Jones (Chartist) (1809–1873), Welsh political radical and Chartist William Jones (New Zealand politician) (1868–1953), member of parliament in New Zealand William Jones (Newfoundland politician) (1873–1930), physician and politician in Newfoundland
Religion William Jones of Nayland (1726–1800), British Anglican priest and author William Jones (Welsh priest) (1755–1821), Welsh Anglican priest William Jones (Welsh Baptist writer) (1762–1846) William Henry Jones (1817–1885), English Anglican priest and antiquarian William Henry Jones (Methodist) (1874–1939), Australian churchman William Basil Jones (1822–1897), Welsh Anglican bishop of St David's J. William Jones (1836–1909), American Baptist minister and Lost Cause advocate William Jones (bishop of Puerto Rico) (1865–1921), American Catholic bishop of Puerto Rico William Jones (dean of Brecon) (1897–1974), British Anglican priest William A. Jones (bishop of Missouri) (1927–2020), bishop of Missouri William Augustus Jones Jr. (1934–2006), American Baptist minister and civil rights movement leader
Science and medicine William Jones (mathematician) (1675–1749), Welsh mathematician who proposed the use of the symbol π William Jones (naturalist) (1745–1818), English naturalist and entomologist William Jones (optician) (1763–1831), English optician and scientific instrument maker William Allen Jones (1831–1897), Canadian dentist and miner William Eifion Jones (1925–2004), Welsh marine botanist William Paul Jones (born 1952), cognitive scientist William Ernest Jones (psychiatrist) (1867–1957), English-Australian psychiatrist
Sports Association football (soccer) William P. Jones (1870–1953), Druids F.C. and Wales international footballer William Roberts Jones (1870–1938), Aberystwyth F.C. and Wales international footballer William Jones (English footballer, born 1876) (1876–1959), Bristol City F.C., Tottenham Hotspur F.C. and England international footballer William Jones (Welsh footballer, born 1876) (1876–1918), West Ham United F.C. and Wales international footballer William Lot Jones (bap. 1882–1941), Manchester City F.C. and Wales international footballer William Jones (Port Vale footballer) (fl. 1905) William Jones (English footballer, fl. 1930s), English footballer with Gillingham F.C. Morris Jones (footballer) (William Morris Jones, 1919–1993), English footballer with Port Vale F.C., Swindon Town F.C. and others
Basketball Renato William Jones (1906–1981), popularizer of basketball in Europe & Asia and a founding father of FIBA Wil Jones (basketball coach) (1938–2014), American basketball point guard and coach Wil Jones (basketball, born 1947), American basketball power forward
Combat sports William Jones (British wrestler), British Olympic wrestler in 1908 Gorilla Jones (William Landon Jones, 1906–1982), American boxer, world middleweight champion Chilly Willy (wrestler) (William Jones, born 1969), American professional wrestler
Cricket William Jones (South Australia cricketer) (1864–1924), Australian cricketer William Jones (cricketer, born 1911) (1911–1941), Welsh cricketer William Jones (cricketer, born 1990), Australian-born English cricketer
Water sports William Jones (rower) (1925–2014), Uruguayan rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics William Jones (canoeist) (born 1931), Australian sprint canoer William Jones (Canadian sailor) (born 1995), Canadian sailor
Other sports Bert Jones (rugby, born 1906) (William Herbert Jones, 1906–1982), rugby union and rugby league football for Wales, Llanelli, and St. Helens Dub Jones (American football) (William Augustus Jones, 1924–2024), American football player Tex Jones (William Roderick Jones, 1885–1938), Chicago White Sox first baseman William Jones (sport shooter) (1928–2017), Canadian Olympic shooter William Jones (sprinter) (born 2003), American sprinter, 2023-2025 All-American for the USC Trojans track and field team William Jones (rugby union) (1894–1978), Welsh international rugby union player William Downes Jones, Scottish international lawn bowler
Others William Bence Jones (1812–1882), Anglo-Irish agriculturist William Ebeneezer Jones Jr. (born 1959), missing child in New Jersey William A. Jones (writer), British author of MindWealth: building Personal Wealth from Intellectual Property Right
Other uses William Jones (novel), a 1944 Welsh-language novel by T. Rowland Hughes USS William Jones, a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy
See also Bill Jones (disambiguation) Billy Jones (disambiguation) Will Jones (disambiguation) Willie Jones (disambiguation) William Corbett-Jones, American pianist William Stanton Jones (1866–1951), Anglican bishop William West Jones (1838–1908), second bishop and first archbishop of Cape Town