William Atkinson

William Atkinson may refer to:

  • William Atkinson (poet) (1757–1846), English poet
  • William Atkinson (architect) (1774/5–1839), English architect
  • William Atkinson (British Columbia politician) (1868–1939), politician in British Columbia, Canada
  • William Stephen Atkinson (1820–1876), Indian lepidopterist
  • William Walker Atkinson (1862–1932), occultist, American pioneer of the New Thought
  • William Yates Atkinson (1854–1899), Governor of Georgia, USA
  • William Atkinson (teacher) (born 1950), head teacher at Phoenix High School, London
  • William P. Atkinson (born 1901), Wisconsin State Assemblyman
  • Bill Atkinson (born 1951), computer engineer
  • Bill Atkinson (baseball) (born 1954), American baseball player
  • Bill Atkinson (footballer) (born 1944), English footballer
  • Will Atkinson (born 1988), English footballer
  • Will Atkinson (musician) (1908–2003), traditional musician from northern Northumberland
  • William Albert Atkinson, provincial politician from Alberta
  • William Henry Atkinson (born 1923), Canadian naval fighter ace
  • William Atkinson (translator) (died 1509), English translator

Famous quotes containing the words william and/or atkinson:

    “I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Love is the victim’s response to the rapist.”
    —Ti-Grace Atkinson (b. 1938?)