William Clarke

William or Bill Clarke may refer to:

Entertainment

  • William Hanna Clarke (1882–1924), dentist, then an artist, from Glasgow, Scotland
  • William Clarke (musician) (1951–1996), blues harmonica player
  • Will Clarke (novelist) (born 1970), American novelist
  • William Clarke, a.k.a. Bunny Rugs, lead singer for the band Third World

Politics

  • William Clarke (MP for Amersham) (c. 1575–1626), English MP for Amersham
  • William Clarke (English politician) (c. 1623–1666), English politician and Secretary to the Council of the Army
  • William Clarke (mayor), American mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, 1869
  • William Clarke (Australian politician) (1843–1903), Australian businessman and parliamentarian
  • William Clarke (Fabian) (1852–1901), English socialist activist
  • William Aurelius Clarke (1868–1940), Canadian politician in Ontario
  • William Alexander Clarke, a.k.a. Alexander Bustamante (1884–1977), first prime minister of Jamaica
  • Bill Clarke (politician) (born 1933), Canadian MP for Vancouver Quadra, 1973–1984

Sports

Football

  • William Clarke (footballer, fl. 1897–1900), English football forward with Lincoln City in the late 1890s
  • William Clarke (footballer, born 1909) (1909–?), for Bradford City
  • Bill Clarke (Australian footballer) (1882–1945), Australian rules footballer
  • Bill Clarke (Canadian football) (1932–2000), Canadian football defensive lineman
  • Bill Clarke (football manager), English Carlisle United F.C. manager, 1933–1935
  • Bill Clarke (footballer, born 1880) (1880–?), English footballer with Sheffield United, Northampton Town and Southampton
  • Bill Clarke (footballer, born 1916) (1916–1986), English footballer with Leicester City, Exeter and Southampton
  • Willie Clarke (footballer) (1878–1940), Scottish footballer
  • Billy Clarke (footballer, born 1987), Irish footballer

Cricket

  • William Clarke (cricketer, born 1798) (1798–1856), English cricketer and team manager
  • William Grasett Clarke (1821–1893), English cricketer
  • William Clarke (Barbadian cricketer) (1841–1907), Barbadian cricketer
  • William Clarke (cricketer, born 1846) (1846–1902), English cricketer
  • William Clarke (cricketer, born 1849) (1849–1935), English cricketer

Other sports

  • Boileryard Clarke (William Jones Clarke, 1868–1959), American Major League Baseball player
  • William Clarke (athlete) (1873–?), British Olympic runner
  • Will Clarke (cyclist) (born 1985), Australian road cyclist
  • Will Clarke (triathlete) (born 1985), British triathlete
  • Bill Clarke (died 2018), British professional wrestler, best known as the masked King Kendo

Science

  • William Clarke (apothecary) (1609–1682), English apothecary associated with Isaac Newton
  • William Branwhite Clarke (1798–1878), English geologist and clergyman, active in Australia
  • William Barnard Clarke (1806–1865), English architect, cartographer and translator
  • William Barnard Clarke (physician) (1807–1894), English physician and curator
  • William Eagle Clarke (1853–1938), British ornithologist
  • William Clarke (Canadian physician) (died 1887), Irish-born physician and politician in Ontario, Canada

Other people

  • William Clarke (justice) (died c. 1706), Delaware justice, chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
  • William Clarke (antiquary) (1696–1771), English cleric and antiquary
  • William Clarke (industrialist) (1831–1890), English industrialist, co-founder of Clarke Chapman
  • Sir William Clarke, 1st Baronet (1831–1897), Australian businessman
  • William Clarke (cryptographer) (1883–1961), British British intelligence officer and cryptographer
  • William Francis Clarke (1816–1890), American Jesuit educator
  • William P.O. Clarke (1893–1949), U.S. Navy admiral during World War II
  • William Robinson Clarke (1895–1981), British World War I pilot who was the first black pilot to fly for Britain
  • William Clarke (United Kingdom railway contractor), designer of British railway stations, see Portesham railway station

Other uses

  • William Clarke & Son, a tobacco company founded in 1830 in Cork, Ireland
  • William Clarke Estate, a historic home in Orange Park, Florida
  • William Clarke College, an Anglican co-educational high school in Kellyville, New South Wales, Australia

See also

  • William Clark (disambiguation)
  • William Clerke (disambiguation)
  • Willie Clarke (disambiguation)
  • Will Clarke (disambiguation)
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