William Butler Explained

William Butler may refer to:

Actors

• William Butler (actor), U.S. actor, played in Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
• William J. Butler (1860–1927), Irish silent film actor

Law

• William Allen Butler (1825–1902), American lawyer and writer of poetical satires
• William E. Butler (born 1939), American-British legal scholar
• William Butler (judge) (1822–1909), U.S. federal judge

Military

• William Butler (colonel) (died 1789), American Revolutionary War soldier from Pennsylvania, one of five Butler brothers in the war
• William Butler (1759–1821), American Revolutionary War soldier, 1790s militia general, U.S. Representative from South Carolina
• William Butler (militiaman) (1759–1818), U.S. militia captain killed in the Creek War, namesake of Butler County, Alabama
• William Orlando Butler (1791–1880), U.S. soldier in the War of 1812 and Mexican–American War, 1848 Democratic vice-presidential candidate
• Sir William Butler (British Army officer) (1838–1910), 19th century British Army lieutenant general and adventurer
• William Boynton Butler (1894–1972), British Army soldier awarded a Victoria Cross

Music

• William Butler (musician) (born 1982), American musician, member of the Arcade Fire
• William Butler (sound designer), British/Canadian musician, sound designer and recording engineer

Politics

• William Butler (fl. 1386–1393), Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham
• William Butler (1544–1577), MP for Queenborough
• William Boteler (died 1602) (1540–1602), or Butler, MP for Lyme Regis and Bedford
• William Butler (1790–1850), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
• William Butler (fl. 1859–1863), Illinois State Treasurer
• William M. Butler (1861–1937), lawyer and legislator for the state of Massachusetts, United States Senator
• William Henry Butler (1790–1865), English wine merchant and Mayor of Oxford
• William Butler (New Zealand politician) (1841–1875), New Zealand politician

Religion

• William Butler (missionary) (1818–1899), Irish-born U.S. Methodist Episcopal missionary to Mexico and India
• William John Butler (1818–1894), High Church Anglican priest
• William Butler (canon) (died 1519), Canon of Windsor

Sports

• William C. Butler (1844–1914), played football for England
• William Butler (cricketer) (1871–1953), New Zealand first-class cricketer, later international Test cricket umpire
• William Butler (footballer) (1872–1953), Druids F.C. and Wales international footballer

Others

• William Butler (physician) (1535–1617), Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
• William F. Butler, African American leader after the American Civil War
• William Archer Butler (1814–1848), Irish historian of philosophy
• William Butler (brewer), whose company was merged into Mitchells & Butlers
• William Butler (author), author of the novel The Butterfly Revolution
• William Butler (alchemist) (c. 1534–1617), Irish alchemist
• William James Butler (1858–1932), New Zealand sawmiller and timber merchant

See also

• William Butler Yeats, Irish poet
• Bill Butler (disambiguation)
• Billy Butler (disambiguation)
• William Boteler (disambiguation), spellings often used interchangeably