Military
- Maurice Anderson (1908–1986), often known as Bill Anderson, British Army medical officer
- William Anderson (naval officer) (1921–2007), commander of the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, later a United States Representative from Tennessee
- William Anderson (RAAF officer) (1891–1975), Australian air marshal
- William Anderson (VC) (1885–1915), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William Herbert Anderson (1881–1918), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William T. Anderson (1839–1864), American Civil War guerrilla commander, known as "Bloody Bill"
- William Anderson (Canadian Army officer) (1915–2000), Canadian general
- William Anderson (Medal of Honor) (1852–?), American sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- William Y. Anderson (1921–2011), Swedish American fighter ace of World War II
- William C. Anderson (United States Air Force), Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Installations, Environment & Logistics) 2005–2008
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)
“His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for another mug. It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator, cased in grubby pink plastic.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)