William Turner may refer to:

Artists

• William Turner (1762–1835), one of the English Turner family of potters; see Turner (potters)
• J. M. W. Turner (William Turner, 1775–1851), major English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker
• William Turner (painter) (1789–1862), English watercolour painter from Oxford
• William Greene Turner (1833–1917), American sculptor
• William Lakin Turner (1867–1936), English landscape artist
• William Ralph Turner (1920–2013), English painter

Politicians

• William Turner (Blackburn MP) (1777–1842), British Member of Parliament for Blackburn
• William Turner (London MP) (1615–1693), British Member of Parliament for City of London and Lord Mayor of London
• William D. Turner (1836–1905), Wisconsin State Assemblyman
• William George Turner (1872–1937), Irish Lord Mayor of Belfast
• William Turner (Australian politician) (1837–1916), New South Wales politician
• William H. Turner (politician), African-American school board member and state senator from Miami, Florida
• William V. Turner, state representative in Alabama during the Reconstruction era

Religious figures

• William Turner (bishop of Buffalo) (1871–1936), Irish-American Roman Catholic bishop
• William Turner (bishop of Galloway) (1844–1914), Scottish Roman Catholic bishop
• William Turner (bishop of Salford) (1799–1872), English Roman Catholic bishop and vicar apostolic
• William Turner (minister at Wakefield) (1714–1794), English dissenting divine
• William Turner (Unitarian minister) (1761–1859), English minister; Hanover Square congregation, Newcastle upon Tyne, son of the minister at Wakefield of the same name

Scientists

• William Turner (naturalist) (c. 1508–1568), English ornithologist and botanist; dean of Wells Cathedral
• William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1928), British botanist
• W. E. S. Turner (William Ernest Stephen Turner, 1881–1963), English chemist and glass technologist
• William Wadden Turner (1810–1859), British-born American linguist and librarian

Sportspeople

• Bill Turner (basketball) (born 1944), American basketball player
• Bill Turner (American football) (born 1960), American football player
• Billy Turner (American football) (born 1991), American football player
• Billy Turner (William H. Turner Jr., 1940–2021), American racehorse trainer
• Willie Turner (sprinter) (born 1948), American sprinter
• Willie Turner (footballer) (c.1860–?), Scottish international footballer
• William Turner (footballer, born 1867) (1867–?), Welsh international footballer
• Bill Turner (footballer, born 1870) (1870–1952), Australian rules footballer for St Kilda
• Bill Turner (footballer, born 1894) (1894–1970), English footballer
• Bill Turner (English footballer, born 1901) (1901–1989), British footballer
• Bill Turner (Australian footballer, born 1901) (1901–1967), Australian rules footballer for Fitzroy
• Bill Turner (footballer, born 1912) (1912–1981), Australian rules footballer for Essendon
• Aggie Turner (William Turner, 1893–1916), American baseball player

Others

• William Turner (anatomist) (1832–1916), Scottish academic
• William Turner (biographer) (1788–1853), son of the English Unitarian minister of the same name
• William Turner (composer) (1651–1740), baroque English composer
• William Turner (envoy) (1792–1867), British diplomat and author
• William B. Turner (1892–1918), U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient
• William J. G. Turner (also known as Bill Turner; 1952–1987), American composer and stage director
• William Thomas Turner (1856–1933), final captain of the RMS Lusitania
• William Turner (British Army officer) (1907–1989)
• William F. Turner (1816–1899), judge in the Territory of Arizona
• William H. Turner (actor) (1861–1942), Irish actor
• William Irving Turner (1890–1950), American architect
• William Aldren Turner (1864–1945), neurologist
• William Iredell Turner (1812–1881), Florida pioneer and soldier
• William Turner, 18-year-old lynching victim from Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas
• Bill Turner (public servant) (1887–1959), Australian public servant; Comptroller-General of Customs

In fiction

• Bootstrap Bill Turner, father of Will Turner in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean films
• Will Turner, fictional character in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean films

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