Big Bill may refer to:
- "Big Bill" Dwyer (1883–1946), prohibition gangster and bootlegger
- "Big Bill" Tilden (1893–1953), American tennis player
- Bill Haywood, (1869–1928), prominent figure of the American labor movement
- Bill James (1887–1942), starting pitcher in Major League Baseball
- Big Bill Bissonnette (born 1937), American jazz trombonist and producer
- Big Bill Broonzy (1898–1958), American blues singer and guitarist
- Big Bill Morganfield (born 1956), American blues singer and guitarist
- Big Bill Neidjie (circa 1920–2002), last surviving speaker of the Gagudju language
- Bill Bachrach (1879-1959), American swim and water polo coach
- Bill Werbeniuk (1947–2003), Canadian snooker player
- Big Bill Laplante (1980- present) Most epic DJ and host of Big Bill's Indie Underground. Calgary Alberta Canada.
Famous quotes containing the words big and/or bill:
“O, pluck was he to the backbone and clear grit through and through;
Boasted and bragged like a trooper; but the big words wouldn’t do;
The boy was dying, sir, dying, as plain as plain could be,
Worn out by his ride with Morgan up from the Tennessee.”
—Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894)
“Is a Bill of Rights a security for [religious liberty]? If there were but one sect in America, a Bill of Rights would be a small protection for liberty.... Freedom derives from a multiplicity of sects, which pervade America, and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)