People
- Billings Learned Hand (1872–1961), an American judge
- Alan Billings, Church of England priest
- Alexandra Billings (b. 1962), an American transsexual actress
- Amanda Billings (b. 1986), Canadian figure skater
- Braddish Billings (1783-1864), an early settler in the Ottawa, Canada area
- Charles E. Billings (1835–1920), an American inventor
- Dave Billings, selector for the Dublin senior football team
- Dick Billings (b. 1942), professional baseball player
- Dwight Billings (1910-1997), an American ecologist
- Earl Billings (b. 1945), American actor
- Elkanah Billings (1820-1876), Canadian paleontologist
- Eric and Brandon Billings (b. 1929) twin American child actors
- Franklin S. Billings (1862–1935), an American politician from Woodstock, Vermont, Governor of Vermont (1925-1927)
- Franklin S. Billings Jr. (born June 5, 1922), a retired US Federal Judge from Woodstock, Vermont
- Frederick H. Billings (1823–1890), an American lawyer and financier from Woodstock, Vermont
- Henry Billings Brown (1836-1913), US Supreme Court Justice
- Hammatt Billings (1818-1874), born Charles Howland Hammatt Billings, an artist and architect from Boston, Massachusetts
- Jill Billings, American politician
- Joel Billings, American computer game designer
- John Billings (1918-2007), an Australian neurologist
- John Shaw Billings (1838–1913), American librarian and surgeon, first director of the New York Public Library
- Joseph Billings (1758–?), an English explorer in the Russian service
- Josh Billings (1818-1885), the pen name of American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw
- Josh Billings (baseball) (1892-1981), professional baseball player
- Katharine Fowler-Billings (1902–1997), American naturalist and geologist
- Lem Billings aka Kirk LeMoyne Billings (1916-1981), lifelong close friend of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
- Marland P. Billings (1902–1996), American structural geologist
- Rhoda Billings, American professor of law and former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
- Robert Billings (1949-1986), Canadian poet and editor
- Robert William Billings (1813-1874), an English Victorian artist and architect
- Roger E. Billings (1948–), an American entrepreneur and developer of high-tech products
- Titus Billings (1793–1866), early member of the Latter Day Saint movement
- Warren Billings (1893-1972), American labor leader wrongly convicted of a 1916 bombing in San Francisco
- William Billings (1746-1800), an early American composer
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