title: William Stokes
text: # William Stokes
  
  William Stokes may refer to:
  
  ## Politicians
  
  * William Stokes (MP) for Leominster (UK Parliament constituency) in 1421
  * William Brickly Stokes (1814–1897), American soldier and politician
  * J. William Stokes (1853–1901), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
  * William R. Stokes, American politician and mayor of Augusta, Maine
  
  ## Doctors
  
  * William Stokes (physician) (1804–1878), Irish physician
  * Sir William Stokes (surgeon) (1839–1900), his son
  * William Royal Stokes (1870–1930), American physician and bacteriologist
  
  ## Others
  
  * William Axton Stokes (1814–1877), Philadelphia attorney and Major in the American Civil War
  * William Earl Dodge Stokes (1852–1926), American property developer
  * William Stokes (Victoria cricketer) (1857-1929), Australian cricketer
  * William Stokes (Western Australia cricketer) (1886-1954), Australian cricketer
  * William Lee Stokes (1915-1994, known as the "Father of Utah geology"), American geologist and paleontologist
  * William H. Stokes (born 1957), American bishop
  * William James Stokes, musician better known by stage name Sir The Baptist
  