Politics
- William Johnson (Australian politician) (1871–1916), Australian politician
- William Johnson (by 1523-53 or later), MP for Kingston-upon-Hull
- William Johnson (Massachusetts) (died 1941), mayor of North Adams, Massachusetts
- William Johnson (Nuneaton MP) (1849–1919), English coal miner, trade unionist and Liberal-Labour politician
- William Johnson (MP for Bedford) (by 1513–1558), MP for Bedford (UK Parliament constituency) and New Woodstock
- William Johnson (Seneca County, NY) (1821–1875), New York State Senator and Civil War colonel
- Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (1715–1774), Founder and Baron of Tryon County, NY
- William A. Johnson, Jr., mayor of Rochester, New York
- William Augustus Johnson (1777–1863), English soldier and Member of Parliament
- William Cost Johnson (1806–1860), Maryland Congressman
- William Daniel Johnson (born c. 1950), American white nationalist, attorney, and perennial candidate
- Sir William Elliot Johnson (1862–1932), Australian politician
- William E. Johnson (1862–1950), American temperance movement leader
- William F. Johnson (1819–?), mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts
- William M. Johnson, U.S. politician
- Sir William Moore Johnson (1828–1918)
- William Paul Johnson (born 1959), U.S. federal judge
- William Richard Johnson (1875–1938), Illinois Congressman
- William Samuel Johnson (1727–1819), United States Founding Father
- William Ward Johnson (1892–1963), U.S. Representative from California
- William Wartenbee Johnson (1826–1887), Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio and Ohio Supreme Court Judge
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