William Stevenson

William Stevenson may refer to:

  • Sir William Stevenson (poet) (1530–1575), English poet
  • Sir William Stevenson (colonial administrator) (1805–1863), Governor of Mauritius
  • William Ford Stevenson (1811–1852), Fellow of the Royal Society
  • William E. Stevenson (1820–1883), American politician, Governor of West Virginia
  • William Grant Stevenson (1849–1919), Scottish sculptor and painter
  • William Ernest Stevenson (born 1870s), Northern Irish Senator
  • William Francis Stevenson (1861–1942), U.S. Congressman from South Carolina
  • William Stevenson (bishop) (1878–1945), Australian Anglican bishop
  • William H. Stevenson (1891–1978), U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin
  • William Stevenson (athlete) (1900–1985), U.S. Olympic athlete, lawyer, and ambassador
  • William Stevenson (canoer) (born 1923), Canadian canoer
  • William Stevenson (New Zealand politician) (1901–1983), New Zealand industrialist and philanthropist
  • William Stevenson (Canadian writer) (born 1925), British-born Canadian author and journalist
  • William Stevenson (judge) (born 1934), Canadian Supreme Court justice
  • William Stevenson (Scottish writer) (1772–1829), Scottish nonconformist preacher and writer; father of Elizabeth Gaskell
  • William "Mickey" Stevenson (fl. 1964), Motown songwriter and record producer
  • Willie Stevenson (born 1939), footballer

Famous quotes containing the words william and/or stevenson:

    “The Heavens. Once an object of superstition, awe and fear. Now a vast region for growing knowledge. The distance of Venus, the atmosphere of Mars, the size of Jupiter, and the speed of Mercury. All this and more we know. But their greatest mystery the heavens have kept a secret. What sort of life, if any, inhabits these other planets? Human life, like ours? Or life extremely lower in the scale. Or dangerously higher.”
    —Richard Blake, and William Cameron Menzies. Narrator, Invaders from Mars, at the opening of the movie (1953)

    “I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)