title: William Percy
text: # William Percy
  
  William Percy may refer to:
  
  * William de Percy (d.c. 1096/9), Anglo-Norman nobleman, crusader and founder of Whitby Abbey
  * William Percy (c.1337-1407), MP for Sussex
  * William Percy (bishop) (1428–1462), British bishop
  * William Percy (writer) (1574–1648), English poet and playwright
  * William Percy (portrait artist) (1820–1903), of Manchester, England
  * William Henry Percy (1788–1855), British naval officer
  * William Alexander Percy (politician), (1834–1888) American politician and grandfather of the below
  * William Alexander Percy (1885–1942), American lawyer, planter and poet
  * William Armstrong Percy III (born 1933), American historian and gay activist
  