• William Phillips (British Army officer) (1731–1781), artilleryman and general officer in the British Army who served as a major-general in the American Revolutionary War
• William Phillips (geologist)
  William Phillips (geologist)
  William Phillips FRS was an English mineralogist and geologist.Phillips was the son of James Phillips, printer and bookseller in London. He became interested in mineralogy and geology, and was one of the founders of the Geological Society of London...
  
   (1775–1828) British mineralogist who founded the Geological Society of London
• William Phillips (diplomat)
  William Phillips (diplomat)
  William Phillips was a career United States diplomat who served twice as an Under Secretary of State....
  
   (1878–1968), U.S. diplomat, first United States ambassador to Canada
• William Phillips (director)
  William Phillips (director)
  William Phillips is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. After graduating from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Science Degree, William Phillips studied film at Ryerson University. Phillips then ran a film production company entitled Grandview Products and worked on the...
  
   (contemporary), Canadian filmmaker who wrote and directed the film Gunless
• William Phillips (economist)
  William Phillips (economist)
  Alban William Housego "A. W." "Bill" Phillips, MBE was an influential New Zealand economist who spent most of his academic career at the London School of Economics . His best-known contribution to economics is the Phillips curve, which he first described in 1958...
  
   (1914–1975), New Zealander known for the Phillips curve and Moniac hydraulic computer
• William Phillips (editor)
  William Phillips (editor)
  William Phillips was an American editor, writer, and public intellectual, who co-founded the Partisan Review. Together with co-editor Philip Rahv, Phillips made the Partisan Review into one of the foremost journals of politics, literature, and the arts, particularly from the 1930s through the 1950s...
  
   (1907–2002), American editor and co-founder of Partisan Review
• William A. Phillips
  William A. Phillips
  William Addison Phillips was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.Born in Paisley, Scotland, Phillips attended the common schools of Paisley....
  
   (1824–1893), American lawyer and politician
• William Daniel Phillips
  William Daniel Phillips
  William Daniel Phillips is an American physicist and shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1997 with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. He is of Italian and Welsh descent.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1948), Nobel Prize-winning physicist specializing in laser cooling of atoms
• William David Phillips
  William David Phillips
  William David Phillips was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Cardiff Rugby Football Club and international rugby for Wales...
  
   (1855–1918), Wales international rugby union player
• William Edward Phillips
  William Edward Phillips
  William Edward Phillips was acting governor of the Prince of Wales' Island on three separate occasions; On the premature death of newly arrived Lieutenant-Governor Charles Andrew Bruce, Dec. 1810 till Archibald Seton arrived in 1811. On the premature death of Lieutenant-governor William Petrie in...
  
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  Floruit
  Floruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
  
   1810–1826), Governor of Penang
• William T. Phillips
  William T. Phillips
  William T. Phillips was a Spokane, Washington author, best remembered for The Bandit Invincible, a biography of the outlaw Butch Cassidy. A copy of the book is held at The American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming. Phillips claimed to have known Cassidy since childhood, and states in...
  
   (1863–1937), American author
• William Phillips (gunman) (c. 1947–2007), gunman responsible for a standoff with police at the Johnson Space Center on April 20, 2007
• William Phillips, Jr.
  William Phillips, Jr.
  William Phillips Jr was born in Boston, Massachusetts, April 10, 1750; died in Boston, May 26, 1827. Phillips was elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and served 1812-1823. He drafted the letter inviting New England Governors to send delegates to the Hartford Convention of 1815.Phillips...
  
   (1750–1827), Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1812 to 1823
• William Warren Phillips
  William Warren Phillips
  William Warren Phillips was a French basketball player. Son of William and Dominique Phillips. Both parents played professional basketball in France. His mother is French, while father is American. He played as a Power Forward...
  
   (born 1979), American basketball player

See also

• Bill Phillips (disambiguation)
• William Phylip
  William Phylip
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  , Welsh poet