William Maxwell

• William Maxwell (1733–1796), Irish-born American soldier from New Jersey in the American Revolutionary War
• General Sir William Maxwell, 7th Baronet of Calderwood (1754–1837)
• William Hamilton Maxwell (1792–1850), Scots-Irish novelist
• William John Maxwell, 18th Naval Governor of Guam
• William Maxwell , president of Erie Railroad, 1842–1843
• William Babington Maxwell (1866–1938), British novelist
• William Sutherland Maxwell (1874–1951), Canadian architect and a Hand of the Cause in the Bahá'í Faith
• William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. (1908–2000), American editor and writer
• William Maxwell (1755–1809), printer of the Centinel of the Northwest Territory newspaper in Cincinnati, Ohio
• William Maxwell , manager of the Belgian national football team
• William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale
• William Maxwell
• William George Maxwell (1871–1959), British naturalist and colonial administrator in British Malaya and Straits Settlements
• William Jardine Herries Maxwell, British MP for Dumfriesshire, 1892–1895 and 1900–1906
• Sir William Maxwell, 5th Baronet, of Monreith, British MP for Wigtownshire, 1805–1812 and 1822–1830

See also

• Billy Maxwell (born 1929), American golfer