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William Smith (Maryland) (1728–1814), United States representative from Maryland (1789–1791)

William Smith (South Carolina representative) (1751–1837), United States representative from South Carolina (1797–1798)

William Stephens Smith (1755–1816), United States representative from New York (1813–1816)

William Loughton Smith (1758–1812), United States representative from South Carolina (1789–1798)

William Smith (South Carolina senator) (1762–1840), United States senator from South Carolina (1815–1830)

William Smith (Virginia), United States representative from Virginia (1821–1827)

William “Extra Billy” Smith (1797–1887), Governor of Virginia (1846–1849, 1864–1865) and Confederate general

William Nathan Harrell Smith (1812–1889), United States representative from North Carolina (1859–1860)

William Russell Smith (1815–1896), United States representative from Alabama (1851–1856)

William Jay Smith (Tennessee representative) (1823–1913), United States representative from Tennessee (1869–1870)

William E. Smith (1824–1883), Governor of Wisconsin (1878–1882)

William Hugh Smith (1826–1899), Governor of Alabama (1868–1870)

William Alexander Smith (1828–1888), United States representative from North Carolina (1873–1874)

William Ephraim Smith (1829–1890), Confederate (1863–1865) and United States (1875–1881) representative from Georgia

William Alden Smith (1859–1932), United States representative (1895–1906) and senator (1905–1918) from Michigan

William Orlando Smith (1859–1932), United States representative from Pennsylvania (1903–1906)

William Robert Smith (1863–1924), United States representative from Texas (1903–1916)

William French Smith (1917–1990), United States Attorney General (1981–1985)

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William Smith (abolitionist) (1756–1835), dissenter and British M.P. whose constituencies included Camelford, Sudbury, and Norwich

William Laird Smith, Australian representative for Denison from 1910 to 1922 and Minister for the Navy from 1920 to 1921

Amor De Cosmos (1825–1897), born William Alexander Smith, Premier of British Columbia

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William “Extra Billy” Smith (1797–1887), Governor of Virginia (1846–1849, 1864–1865) and Confederate general

William Smith (Medal of Honor) (born 1838, date of death unknown), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient

William Smith (Medal of Honor, 1869), American Indian Wars soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

William Farrar Smith, Union Army general

William H. Smith (Medal of Honor), American Indian Wars soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

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William Smyth (1460–1514), English Bishop of Lincoln

William Smith (1697–1769), father of John Smith, Doctor Thomas Smith, Joshua Hett Smith, and Chief Justice William Smith

William Smith (scholar) (1711–1787), classical scholar and Dean of Chester

William Smith (chief justice) (1728–1793), historian, Chief Justice of the Province of New York, and Chief Justice of the Province of Quebec and later Lower Canada

William Smith (geologist) (1769–1839)

William Smith (mariner) (born c. 1775, fl. 1819–1820), British mariner and discoverer of the South Shetland Islands

William Smith (Mormonism) (1811–1893), younger brother of the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, Jr., and a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement

William Smith (lexicographer) (1813–1893)

William Robertson Smith (1846–1894), philologist, physicist, archaeologist, and Biblical critic

Sir William Alexander Smith (Boys' Brigade) (1854–1914), founder of the Boys' Brigade

William Smith (c. 1872–1941), Master of the SS Sauternes, English merchant seaman killed in World War II

William Charles Smith (1877–1946), a.k.a. Razor Smith, cricket player from Surrey

William H. Smith (boxer), South African boxer of the 1920s

William Smith (shearer) (1896–1947), perhaps the most skilled sheep-shearer in the first half of the 20th century

William Smith (boxer) (born 1920)

William Smith (actor) (born 1934)

William Jay Smith (born 1918), American poet

William Smith (swimmer), two-time gold medalist in the 1948 Olympic games

William John Smith (born 1942), a.k.a. Billy Smith (rugby league footballer), champion Australian rugby league halfback of 1960s and 1970s

William Kennedy Smith (born 1960), physician and Kennedy family scion who was acquitted of rape in 1991

William Smith (murderer), executed by the State of Ohio in 2004

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William Smith College, in Geneva, New York

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Bill Smith

Will Smith (disambiguation)

Willie Smith

William H. Smith

William Henry Smith