title: William Hudson
text: # William Hudson
  
  William Hudson may refer to:
  
  ## Science and medicine
  
  * William Hudson (botanist) (1730–1793), British botanist
  * William Hudson (engineer) (1896–1978), New Zealand-born head of Snowy Mountains Scheme in Australia
  * William Henry Hudson (1841–1922), Anglo-Argentine writer and naturalist
  
  ## Sports
  
  * Bill Hudson (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 1950s for Great Britain, Yorkshire, England, Batley, Wigan, and Wakefield Trinity
  * William Hudson (footballer) (1928–2014), British footballer
  * Frank Hudson (baseball) (William Henry Hudson), American baseball player in the 1940s
  
  ## Others
  
  * William Hudson (actor) (1919–1974), American actor
  * William Hudson (conductor) (1933–2022), American conductor
  * William L. Hudson (1794–1862), United States Navy officer
  * William Parker Hudson (1841–1912), Ontario businessman and political figure
  * William Wilson Hudson (1808–1859), president of the University of Missouri
  * William Hudson (Philadelphia), mayor of Philadelphia, 1725–1726
  * Private William Hudson, a character in the 1986 film Aliens, played by Bill Paxton
  