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:

    “Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast,
    A full-hatched beauty seems to nest
    Nor snow, which falling from the sky
    Hovers in its virginity.”
    —Henry Noel, British poet, and William Strode, British poet. Beauty Extolled (attributed to Noel and to Strode)

    “The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.”
    —Brooks Atkinson (1894–1984)