William Parsons

William Parsons may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

William Parsons (composer and copyist) (fl.1545–1563), English Renaissance composer and copyist from Wells

William Parsons (composer and musician) (1745/6–1817), Master of the King's Music

William Parsons (poet) (died 1828), English writer associated with the Della Cruscan movement

William Parsons (actor) (1736–1795), British actor and painter

William Parsons (footballer) (1877–?), Anglo-Spanish footballer

Bill Parsons (born 1948), baseball player

Sir William Parsons, 1st Baronet of Langley (c.1636–c.1662), of the Parsons baronets

Sir William Parsons, 1st Baronet of Bellamont (died 1650), surveyor general of Ireland and member of parliament

Sir William Parsons, 2nd Baronet of Bellamont (died 1658), Earl of Rosse

Sir William Parsons, 2nd Baronet of Birr Castle (1661–1741), Anglo-Irish politician

Sir William Parsons, 4th Baronet of Birr Castle (1731–1791), Irish politician

William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800–1867), Lord Rosse, Irish astronomer

William Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse (1873–1918), Irish peer and British Army officer

Brendan Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse (William Clere Leonard Brendan Parsons, born 1936), worked for the United Nations

William Barclay Parsons (1859–1932), American civil engineer

William E. Parsons (1872–1939), American architect and city planner

William Sterling Parsons (1901–1953), American naval officer and atomic bomb weaponeer aboard Enola Gay

William W. Parsons (academic administrator) (1850–1925), president of Indiana State Normal School, later known as Ball State University

William W. Parsons (NASA), former director of the NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center, & Space Shuttle Program manager

William Henry Parsons (New York activist) (died 1935), headed the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice

William Henry Parsons (colonel) (1826–1907), American newspaper editor, legislator, and Confederate colonel