title: William Simpson
text: William Simpson may refer to:
  
  Politicians
  William T. Simpson (1886–1980), New York politician
  William Dunlap Simpson (1823–1890), Governor of South Carolina from 1879
  William John Simpson (1851–1901), journalist and political figure in Quebec
  
  Others
   William Simpson (teacher), first headmaster (1823–1828) of Bootham School
  William Simpson (artist) (1823–1899), Scottish war artist and correspondent
  William Simpson (portrait artist) (1818–1872), an African American artist and civil right activist in the 19th century
  William Simpson (judge) (1894–1966), Australian Supreme Court judge
  William Simpson (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1900s and 1910s
  William Simpson (trade unionist) (1920–2001), Scottish trade unionist and political activist
  W. Douglas Simpson (William Douglas Simpson, 1896–1968), Scottish architecture and archaeology academic and writer
  William Gayley Simpson (1892–1991), American racial activist and author
  William Henry Simpson (c. 1840–1873), South Australian jockey
  William Hood Simpson (1888–1980), US general who commanded the US Ninth Army in Europe in World War II
  William James Simpson (born 1954), Australian academic
  William John Ritchie Simpson (1855–1931), Scottish physician and specialist in tropical medicine
  William Kelly Simpson (1928–2017), American professor emeritus of Egyptology and archaeology
  William R. Simpson (born 1966), Alaskan chemist
  
  See also
  Will Simpson (disambiguation)
  Bill Simpson (disambiguation)