title: William Carpenter
text: # William Carpenter
  
  William Carpenter may refer to:
  
  * William Carpenter (1797–1874), theological and political writer, journalist, and editor
  * William Carpenter (Australian politician) (1863–1930), Australian politician
  * William Carpenter (flat-Earth theorist) (1830–1896), advocate of the Flat Earth theory
  * William Carpenter (painter) (1818–1899), watercolours of India
  * William Carpenter (Rhode Island colonist) (c. 1610–1685), co-founder of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
  * William Carpenter (writer) (born 1940), American author
  * William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), English physiologist and naturalist
  * William Boyd Carpenter (1841–1918), Church of England clergyman and bishop of Ripon
  * William H. Carpenter (1821–1885), U.S. Consul to Fuzhou, China, during the American Civil War years
  * William Henry Carpenter (philologist) (1853–1936), American philologist
  * William Hookham Carpenter (1792–1866), keeper at the British Museum
  * William J. Carpenter (1827–1921), West Virginia outdoorsman
  * Ken Carpenter (discus thrower) (William Kenneth Carpenter), Olympic discus winner
  * William Kyle Carpenter, (born 1989), Medal of Honor recipient
  * William L. Carpenter (1844–1898), U.S. Army officer, naturalist and geologist
  * William L. Carpenter (Michigan judge) (1854–1936), member of the Michigan Supreme Court
  * William Marbury Carpenter (1811–1848), American physician and naturalist
  * William Randolph Carpenter (1894–1956), US congressman
  * Bill Carpenter (William S. Carpenter, Jr., born 1937), American football player and army officer
  * William T. Carpenter, psychiatrist
  * William Thomas Carpenter (1854–1933), cowman and author
  * William Carpenter of Rehoboth (born 1605), co-founder of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, see Rehoboth Carpenter family
  * William the Carpenter (fl. 1087–1102), French nobleman
  