William Hamilton

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William Hamilton (and shortened forms) may refer to:

[edit] North Americans

• William Hamilton (trapper) (1822-1908), American trapper, "Wildcat Bill"
• William Thomas Hamilton (1820-1888), Governor of Maryland (1880-1884)
• William F. Hamilton (born 1884), 1908 Olympic gold medalist
• William Hamilton (lumber baron) (-1922), lumber merchant and political figure in Upper Canada
• Billy Hamilton (baseball player) (1866-1940), American Major League Baseball player

[edit] Europeans

• William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton (1616-1651), Scottish nobleman
• William Hamilton (surgeon) (died 1717), Surgeon of the British East India Company
• William Hamilton (educator) (?-1730?), Principal of the University of Edinburgh
• William Hamilton of Gilbertfield (1665-1751), Scottish poet
• William Hamilton (Jacobite poet) (1704-1754), Scottish poet
• Sir William Hamilton (diplomat) (1730-1803), Scottish diplomat and husband of Emma Hamilton
• William Hamilton (painter) (1751 - 1801), English painter
• William Richard Hamilton (1777 - 1859), English antiquarian and traveller
• Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788 - 1856), the Scottish metaphysician
• Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805 - 1865), Irish mathematician
• William Hamilton (tennis player), tennis player, winner of the 1890 Wimbledon championships
• William Hamilton, an Irishman who attacked Queen Victoria in 1849
• Willie Hamilton (1917-2000), anti-monarchist British MP
• W. D. Hamilton (1936-2000), British biologist
• Billy Hamilton (footballer) (born 1957), Northern Irish footballer

[edit] Others

• Sir Bill Hamilton (engineer) (1899-1978), New Zealand inventor of the jet boat
• William Hamilton, (1924-?), author of Radical Theology and the Death of God