Politicians
- Bill Davis (born 1929), Ontario politician
- William Davis (politician) (born 1968), Illinois State Representative for the 30th district
- William C. Davis (born 1939), Canadian politician
- William C. Davis (American politician) (1867–1934), 11th lieutenant governor of Alabama
- William E. Davis (born 1929), former university president and Democratic politician and head football coach
- William Hammatt Davis (1879–1964), American politician
- William Henry Davis (1872–?), appointed assistant to the Secretary of War, 1917
- William Morris Davis (congressman) (1815–1891), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
- William Z. Davis (1839–1923), Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio and Ohio Supreme Court Judge
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