• Billy Matthews (footballer) (1883–1921), Chester F.C. and Wales international footballer
• William Matthews (baseball) (1878-1946), American baseball pitcher
• Robert William Matthews
  Robert William Matthews
  Robert William "Billy" Matthews played football as centre-half for Liverpool Football Club in the early 1920s and earned three caps for Wales...
  
   (1897–1987), Liverpool F.C. and Wales international footballer
• William Matthews (engineer)
  William Matthews (engineer)
  Sir William Matthews KCMG was a British civil engineer.He was educated at Glenalmond College and King’s College London....
  
  
• William Matthews (poet)
  William Matthews (poet)
  William Matthews was an American poet and essayist.-Life:Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Matthews earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University, and a master's from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.In addition to serving as a Writer-in-Residence at Boston's Emerson College, Matthews...
  
  
• William Matthews (politician)
  William Matthews (politician)
  William Matthews was an American politician. He was born in Cecil County, Maryland, and was a judge of the Cecil County Court in 1778, 1780, and 1782-1786...
  
  
• William Matthews, co-editor of the diary of Samuel Pepys
  Samuel Pepys
  Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man...
  
  
• William Matthews ("Bill Matthews"), rector of St. Paul's School
  St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)
  St. Paul's School is a highly selective college-preparatory, coeducational boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire affiliated with the Episcopal Church. The school is one of only six remaining 100% residential boarding schools in the U.S. The New Hampshire campus currently serves 533 students,...
  
   in Concord, New Hampshire
• William Howard Matthews
  Howard Matthews
  William Howard Matthews was an English footballer who made 72 appearances for Port Vale over two spells, separated by a period of twenty years....
  
   (1885-1963), English footballer
• Bill Matthews
  Bill Matthews
  William "Bill" Matthews is a Canadian politician.Matthews was a Progressive Conservative member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1982 to 1996...
  
  , Canadian politician

See also

• Will Matthews (disambiguation)
• Bill Mathews
  Bill Mathews
  William Henry Mathews was a Canadian geologist, volcanologist, engineer, and professor. He is considered a pioneer in the study of subglacial eruptions and volcano-ice interactions in North America...
  
  , geologist
• William Mathews
  William Mathews
  William Mathews was an English mountaineer, land agent and surveyor, who first proposed the formation of the Alpine Club of London in 1857.-Founding of the Alpine Club:...
  
  , English mountaineer, land agent and surveyor
• William Diller Matthew
  William Diller Matthew
  William Diller Matthew FRS was a vertebrate paleontologist who worked primarily on mammal fossils....
  
  , paleontologist