Academics and Religious Figures
- William Harris (academic) (1765–1829), president of Columbia University
- William V. Harris (born 1938), professor of history
- William Harris (presbyterian minister) (1675?–1740), English divine
- William Harris (priest) (1884–1956), Welsh priest and academic
- William Logan Harris (1817–1887), Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
- William Wadé Harris (c. 1860–1929), African evangelist
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