William Stanley or Bill Stanley may refer to:
Politicians and noblemen William Stanley, 3rd Baron Monteagle (1528–1581), English politician, MP for Lancashire William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby (1561–1642), English politician William Stanley, 9th Earl of Derby (c. 1655 – 1702), English politician William Stanley (MP for Southampton) (1610–1678), English merchant and politician William Stanley (1640–1670), English politician, MP for Liverpool William Owen Stanley (1802–1884), British MP and lord lieutenant of Anglesey William Eugene Stanley (1844–1910), American politician, Governor of Kansas William Stillman Stanley Jr. (1838–?), Wisconsin jeweler and legislator Bill Stanley (politician) (William M. Stanley Jr., born 1967), American politician
Military figures William Stanley (soldier) (died 1495), English leader in the Wars of the Roses William Stanley (born 1548), English officer under Elizabeth I William A. Stanley (1831–?), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
Other people William Stanley (composer) (1820–1902), English-born Australian classical music composer William Stanley (inventor) (1829–1909), British architect and inventor William Stanley (priest) (1647–1731), English churchman and college head William Stanley (Hawaii judge) (1872–1939), Irish lawyer and judge of the Republic of Hawaii William Stanley (football manager), British footballer and first manager of Coventry City F.C. William O. Stanley (William Oliver Stanley, Jr., fl. 1930s), American professor William Stanley Jr. (1858–1916), American physicist Bill Stanley (American football) (fl. 1924) Bill Stanley (mammalogist) (William T. Stanley, c. 1957–2015) Bill Stanley (javelin thrower) (born 1994), American javelin thrower, 2013 All-American for the Ohio State Buckeyes track and field team William Stanley Hoole (1903–1990), pen name Will Stanley, American librarian, historian, writer, and professor
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