William Martin

William Martin may refer to:

In sports

• William Martin (footballer), professional footballer for Huddersfield Town
• William Martin (English cricketer) (1844–1871), English cricketer
• William Martin (Australian cricketer) (1856-1938), Australian cricketer
• William Martin (sport shooter) (1866–1931), American Olympic sport shooter
• William Martin (American football), head football coach at Wabash College, 1887
• William Martin (water polo) (1906–1980), British Olympic water polo player
• William Martin (skeleton racer) (born 1928), American Olympic skeleton racer
• William Martin (Olympic sailor) (1828–1905), French sailor
• William Trevor Martin (born 1925), New Zealand Test cricket umpire
• William C. Martin, University of Michigan athletics director

In politics and government

• William Martin (MP) (died c.1609), English MP for Exeter, 1597
• William D. Martin (1789–1833), US Congressman from South Carolina
• Sir William Martin (judge) (1807–1880), first Chief Justice of New Zealand, 1841–1857
• William Harrison Martin (1822–1898), U.S. Representative from Texas
• William V. Martin (c. 1870s–?), British Vice-Consul in Ferrol, Spain
• William T. Martin (mayor) (1788–1866), 5th mayor of Columbus, Ohio
• Lee Martin (politician) (William Lee Martin, 1870–1950), New Zealand politician of the Labour Party
• William Melville Martin (1876–1970), premier of Saskatchewan
• William Martin (Canadian politician) (1886–1973), Canadian clergyman and politician
• William Henry Porteous Martin (1886–1939), British MP for Dunbartonshire, 1923–1924
• William McChesney Martin (1906–1998), chairman of the board of the U.S. Federal Reserve
• William Martin (Australian politician) (1834–1917), New South Wales politician

Military figures

• William T. Martin (1823–1910), American lawyer, politician and Confederate States Army general
• William Martin (Royal Navy officer) (c. 1696–1756), naval officer and admiral
• Sir William Martin, 4th Baronet (1801–1895), First Sea Lord of Britain, 1858–1859
• William Martin (sailor) (1839–?), Irish born American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
• William Martin (Medal of Honor, b. 1842), German born American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
• Major William Martin, fictitious army officer in Operation Mincemeat, a British deception in World War II, dramatised in The Man Who Never Was

In the arts

• William H. "Dad" Martin, American photographer
• William Martin (tenor) (born 1898), American opera singer
• William Martin (novelist) American novelist
• William E. Martin, American songwriter, screenwriter and voice actor

In science, engineering and philosophy

• William Martin (naturalist) (1767–1810), English naturalist and palaeontologist
• William Martin (philosopher) (1772–1851), English inventor, eccentric, and philosopher
• William Charles Linnaeus Martin (1798–1864), English naturalist
• William Clyde Martin (physicist) (1929–2013), American physicist
• William Keble Martin (1877–1969), British botanist
• William A. Martin (1938–1981), American computer scientist
• William F. Martin (born 1957), professor of botany
• William Flynn Martin (born 1950), energy economist, educator, and international diplomat
• William Hamilton Martin (1931–1987), American cryptologist, defector to the Soviet Union

Others

• William Martin (garden designer) (born 1953), plantsman and garden designer
• William Clyde Martin (1893–1984), American Methodist bishop
• William Martin (architect) (1829–1900), Birmingham architect and partner in Martin & Chamberlain
• William Martin (1796–?), accompanied George Bass and Matthew Flinders in the Tom Thumb, see Martin Islet (New South Wales)

See also

• Billy Martin (disambiguation), includes people known as Bill Martin
• Willie Martin (born 1951), American-born Canadian football player
• William Martyn of Athelhampton (c. 1446–1503), English nobleman
• All pages with titles containing William Martin