William Wright may refer to: - Will Wright (game designer), American computer game designer and co-founder of the game development company, Maxis
- Bill Wright (outfielder) (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
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