William Gray

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William Gray or Bill Gray is a name shared by the following individuals:

• William Gray (bishop) (died 1436), Bishop of London (1425-31) and Bishop of Lincoln (1431-36)
• William Gray (Massachusetts) (1750-1825), American politician and merchant who became one of the wealthiest men of his era
• William D. Gray (philosopher), author of Thinking Critically About New Age Ideas
• William H. Gray (Oregon politician) (1810-1889), American pioneer of Oregon Country and organizer of its government
• William Crane Gray (1835-1919), American religious figure, the first bishop of the Episcopal Church's Missionary Jurisdiction
• Bill Gray (baseball) (1871-1932), American baseball player who played between May 1890 and October 1898
• William S. Gray (1885-1960), American academic and prolific textbook author who was a foremost authority on the teaching of reading
• William Bain Gray (1886-1949), British Administrator of Saint Vincent and Governor of Saint Helena
• William G. Gray (1913-1992), English occultist, author and mystic whose prolific writings define modern studies of ritual and the occult
• George William Gray (born 1926), Scottish academic who is an internationally known authority on organic chemistry
• William Gray (Lord Provost), Scottish administrator who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1972 to 1975
• Bill Gray (rugby player) (1932-1993), New Zealand rugby footballer
• Billy Gray (born 1938), American actor who played Bud on TV's Father Knows Best; since the 1970s, he has used the name Bill Gray
• William H. Gray (congressman) (born 1941), American minister and politician who represented Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district
• William M. Gray, (b. 1931), Ph.D., American academic, longtime Professor of Atmospheric Science and a pioneer in the science of forecasting hurricanes
• William J. Gray, American astronomer associated with Project Pluto
• Bill Gray (typesetter), lettering designer and typeface expert
• Wilfred James "Bill" Gray, former Australian public servant

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• William Grey (died 1478), English clergyman who served as Bishop of Ely from 1454 to 1478
• William Gray Purcell (1880-1965), American architect known for his late-19th- early-20th-century Midwestern "Prairie School" style
• William Francis Gray Swann (1884-1962), Anglo-American physicist particularly noted for research into cosmic rays and high energy
• William Gray Espy (born 1948), American actor best known for roles in daytime dramas The Young and the Restless and Another World