Writers
- William Brown (journalist) (1737–1789), Canadian journalist and co-founder of the Quebec Gazette
- William Hill Brown (1765–1793), American novelist
- William Wells Brown (1814–1884), African American writer and abolitionist
- William Slater Brown (1896–1997), novelist, biographer and translator
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