American People
- William Gordon (New Hampshire politician) (1763–1802), United States Representative from New Hampshire
- William Gordon (Ohio politician) (1862–1942), U.S. Representative from Ohio
- William E. Gordon (1918–2010), physicist and astronomer, "father of the Arecibo Observatory"
- William F. Gordon (1787–1858), U.S. Representative from Virginia
- William Washington Gordon (1796–1842), American politician and railroad executive, founder Central of Georgia Railroad and grandfather of Juliette Gordon Low
- William Gordon (Bishop of Alaska) (1918–1994), bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska, 1948–1974
- William J. J. Gordon (1919–2003), inventor and psychologist
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