William Collins

Last updated March 28, 2025

William Collins may refer to:

Arts

William Collins (poet) (1721–1759), English poet
William Collins (painter) (1788–1847), English landscape artist
William Lucas Collins (1815–1887), English author and clergyman of the Church of England
William Wiehe Collins (1862–1951), English architectural and landscape genre painter
Billy Collins (born 1941), American poet
William P. Collins, author of works on the Bábí and Bahá’í Faiths, see Bahá'í Faith in Europe

William Collins (Roundhead), English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1654 to 1659
William Collins (Warwick MP) (died 1859), Member of Parliament (MP) for Warwick 1837–52
William Collins (South African politician) (1803–1876), member Volksraad of the Orange Free State
William Collins (New York politician) (1818–1878), U.S. congressman from New York
William Whitehouse Collins (1853–1923), New Zealand Member of Parliament for Christchurch in the South Island
William Collins (English surgeon) (1859–1946), British surgeon and Liberal Party politician
William Collins (New Zealand surgeon) (1853–1934) sportsman, surgeon, and member of the New Zealand Legislative Council
William A. Collins (1935–2022), American politician, state representative and mayor from Norwalk, Connecticut
William T. Collins (1886–1961), American politician, former acting mayor of New York City

William Collins (publisher) (1789–1853), Scottish founder of the William Collins, Sons publishing house
William Collins (Lord Provost) (1817–1895), Scottish temperance movement activist; son of publisher William Collins.
William Collins, Sons (est. 1819), Scottish publishing house, became part of HarperCollins in 1990, a subsidiary of News Corp.
William Collins (imprint), a non-fiction publishing brand launched by HarperCollins in 2014

William Collins (cricketer, born 1837) (1837–1876), Australian cricketer
William Collins (cricketer, born 1848) (1848–1932), Welsh author and cricketer
William Collins (cricketer, born 1868) (1868–1942), English cricketer
William Collins (tennis), British tennis player from the 1920s and 30s, see 1930 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
William Collins (canoeist) (1932–1993), Canadian canoer who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics
Bill Collins (athlete) (born 1950), American sprinter
Billy Collins Jr. (1961–1984), American professional boxer

William Collins (colonist) (1756–1819), English naval officer and early settler in Tasmania, Australia
William O. Collins (1809–1880), commandant of Fort Laramie, Wyoming; namesake of Fort Collins, Colorado and Camp Collins
William Collins (bishop) (1867–1911), Bishop of Gibraltar in the Church of England
William Henry Collins (1878–1937), Canadian geologist
William Floyd Collins (1887–1925), American cave explorer
William J. Collins (1896–1970), president of St. Ambrose University
William R. Collins (1913–1991), United States Marine Corps general
William Erle Collins (1929–2013), American parasitologist
Bootsy Collins (William Earl Collins, born 1951), American funk bassist, singer and songwriter
Mr William Collins, a fictional character in the Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice