title: William Preston
text: # William Preston
  
  William Preston may refer to:
  
  * William Preston (actor) (1921–1998)
  * William Preston (Freemason) (1742–1818), Scottish author of Illustrations of Masonry
  * William Preston (Kentucky soldier) (1816–1887), U.S. politician, ambassador, and Confederate officer
  * William Preston (poet) (1753–1807), Irish poet
  * William Preston (Virginia soldier) (1729–1783), Irish-born frontier Virginia leader, signer of the Fincastle Resolutions
  * William Preston (Royal Navy officer), captain in the British Royal Navy who, along with James Stirling, was responsible for the foundations of Perth and Fremantle in Western Australia
  * William Preston (British politician) (1874–1941), Conservative M.P. for Walsall, 1924–1929
  * William Alfred Preston (1848–1944), MPP in Ontario, Canada
  * William B. Preston (Mormon) (1830–1908), Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1884–1907
  * William Ballard Preston (1805–1862), U.S. politician from Virginia
  * William C. Preston (1794–1860), U.S. politician from Pennsylvania who was a U.S. senator for South Carolina
  * William G. Preston (1842–1910), American architect
  * William Preston (bishop) (1729–1789), Anglican bishop in Ireland
  * Billy Preston (1946–2006), American musician
  * Billy Preston (basketball) (born 1997), American basketball player
  * Bill Preston (1893–1954), American football tackle
  
  ## Fictional
  
  * Sergeant William Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police, lead character in the radio and TV series Challenge of the Yukon
  