William Drummond

William Drummond or Bill Drummond is the name of:

  • William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649), Scottish poet, influenced by Spenser; best known for illustrated essay, Cypresse Grove
  • William Drummond (colonial governor) (born ca.1617 - 1677), Scottish administrator in the Province of Carolina; participant in Bacon's Rebellion
  • William Drummond, 1st Viscount Strathallan (1617 – 1688)
  • William Drummond, 2nd Viscount Strathallan (1670 – 1702)
  • William Drummond, 3rd Viscount Strathallan (1694 – 1711)
  • William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan (1690–1746), Scottish-English supporter of the Jacobite cause; died in the Battle of Culloden
  • William Drummond of Logiealmond (born ca.1770–1828), Scottish classical scholar, philosopher, diplomat, and MP in Scotland and England
  • William Hamilton Drummond, (1778–1865), poet
  • William Drummond, 7th Viscount Strathallan (1810–1886), Scottish Conservative politician
  • William Henry Drummond (1854–1907), Canadian poet, born in Ireland, elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1898
  • William Drummond, 15th Earl of Perth (1871–1937), succeeded as 15th Earl of Perth in 1902
  • William Eugene Drummond (1876–1946), American architect
  • William Drummond, a pseudonym for Arthur Calder-Marshall (1908-1992), British novelist
  • William J. Drummond (born 1944), American journalist
  • Bill Drummond (born 1953), Scottish musician, author, conceptual artist, music-industry entrepreneur and co-founder of The KLF
  • Billy Drummond (born 1959), American jazz drummer
  • William Abernethy Drummond (born ca.1617–1809), Bishop of Edinburgh

Famous quotes containing the word drummond:

    Property has its duties as well as its rights.
    —Thomas Drummond (1797–1840)