William Wright

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William Wright may refer to:

• Will Wright (game designer), American computer game designer and co-founder of the game development company, Maxis
• Bill Wright (baseball player) (born 1914), an outfielder in the Negro Leagues
• Bill Wright (catcher), catcher for 1887 Washington Nationals baseball team
• Bill Wright, creator of Mastermind (TV series)
• Father William Wright, English Roman Catholic missionary priest
• Will Wright (actor) (1894-1962), American character actor in film and TV
• Will Wright (cyclist) (born 1973), Welsh cyclist
• William Wright (1829–1898), real name of Dan DeQuille, American author, newspaperman, and humorist
• William Wright (actor) (1911–1949), American movie actor,
• William Wright (author), author of Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals
• William Wright (botanist) (1735–1819), Scottish physician and botanist
• William Wright (Canadian politician) (1853–1926), Canadian Member of Parliament
• William Wright (cricketer) (1909–1988), cricketer
• William Wright (explorer), member of Australian Burke and Wills expedition
• William Wright (Labour politician) (1862–1931), Scottish politician, Member of Parliament for Rutherglen, 1922–1931
• William Wright (missionary) (1837–1899), author of The Empire of the Hittites
• William Wright (orientalist) (1830–1889), grammarian, researcher of Syriac and Arabic
• William Wright (poet) (1782–??), Scottish poet
• William Wright (politician) (1794–1866), mayor of Newark, New Jersey and US Senator,
• William Wright (privateer), English privateer in French service and later buccaneer who raided Spanish towns in the late 1600s
• William Wright (tennis), American tennis player of the 1950s and 60s
• William Aldis Wright (1831–1914), an English writer and editor,
• William Ambrose Wright (1844–1929), soldier, statesman, lawyer, and devoted Christian. 50-year Georgia Comptroller General
• William B. Wright (1806–1868), Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals, 1868
• William Barton Wright, British railway engineer
• William C. Wright (1866–1933),a U.S. Representative from Georgia
• William Hammond Wright (1871–1959),an American astronomer
• William Henry Wright (1876–1951), Canadian prospector and publisher
• William W. Wright (1813-1889), New York politician
• Wm. Robert Wright (b. 1935), Mormon historian

[edit] See also

• Billy Wright (disambiguation)

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