title: William Gardner
text: # William Gardner
  
  William or Bill Gardner may refer to:
  
  ## Sport
  
  * Bill Gardner (baseball) (1868–1948), American baseball player
  * Bill Gardner (footballer) (1893–1973), English professional footballer
  * Bill Gardner (ice hockey) (born 1960), retired ice hockey player
  * Billy Gardner (born 1927), retired American baseball player
  * Billy Gardner, Jr. (born 1966), American baseball manager and son of Billy Gardner (born 1927)
  * William Jennings Gardner (1884–1965), American football player and member of Eliot Ness's "Untouchables"
  * Bill Gardner (football hooligan) (born 1954), English football supporter, former football hooligan and co-author of books on football hooliganism
  
  ## Military
  
  * William Linnæus Gardner (1771–1835), Indian officer
  * William M. Gardner (1824–1901), Confederate States Army brigadier general
  * William Gardner (sailor) (1832–?), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
  * William Gardner (VC) (1821–1897), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
  
  ## Others
  
  * William Gardner (Australian settler) (1802–1860), pioneer and historian
  * William Gardner (coin designer) (1914–2000), English coin designer, engraver, calligrapher and writer
  * William Gardner (former slave) (1759–unknown), freedman who had been a slave of U.S. President James Madison
  * William Gardner (surgeon) (1846–1897), practised in South Australia and Victoria
  * William E. Gardner Jr. (1939–1991), president of Savannah State College
  * William Biscombe Gardner (1847–1919), English painter and wood-engraver
  * William James Gardner (1825–1874), British missionary in Jamaica
  * Bill Gardner (author), American author
  * Bill Gardner (politician) (born 1948), secretary of state for New Hampshire
  * Willie Gardner, Scottish rock musician
  * William Gardner, pseudonym of Peter Hope
  * William Gardner (Massachusetts judge) (1827–1888), justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
  