People
- W. O. Mitchell (1914–1998), Canadian writer
- William A. Mitchell (1911–2004), corporate chemist responsible for Tang and Pop Rocks
- William B. Mitchell (1832–1900), former Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
- William D. Mitchell (1874–1955), former U.S. Attorney General
- William Foot Mitchell (1859–1947), Conservative Party politician in England, MP 1910 and 1922–1929
- Bill Mitchell (economist) (William Francis Mitchell, born 1952), Australian economist
- William Frederick Mitchell (1845–1914), British naval artist
- William Grant Mitchell (1865–1905), English international rugby union player
- William Henry Fancourt Mitchell (1811–1884), Australian politician
- William J. Mitchell (1945–2010), Australian-born American urban designer and architect
- W. J. T. Mitchell (born 1942), American historian
- Bill Mitchell (designer) (William L. Mitchell, 1912–1988), American automobile designer
- William L. Billy Mitchell (1879–1936), American general and airpower advocate
- William Mitchell (Lancashire politician) (1838–1914), Conservative MP for Burnley, 1900–1905
- William Mitchell (congressman) (1807–1865), Congressman from Indiana
- John Mitchell (cricketer) (William John Mitchell, born 1947), Northern Districts cricketer
- William Mitchell (cricketer, born 1859) (1859–1929), English cricketer
- William Mitchell (Huntingdonshire MP) (c. 1703–1745), Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire, 1741–1745
- William Mitchell (mathematician), set theorist, see Jónsson cardinal
- William Mitchell (North Dakota) (1830–1890), North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction
- William Mitchell (philosopher) (1861–1962), University of Adelaide Professor, Vice Chancellor and Chancellor, 1942–1948
- William Mitchell (physicist) (1925–2002), Oxford physicist who helped pioneer neutron scattering
- William Mitchell (died 1823), Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle, 1796–1799
- William Mitchell (politician) (1851–1926), Canadian senator
- William Mitchell (missionary) (1803–1870), Anglican priest who established religious services in the Swan River Colony
- William Mitchell (RAF officer) (1888–1944), senior Royal Air Force commander and former Black Rod
- William Mitchell (Royal Navy officer) (c. 1745–1816), Royal Navy admiral
- William Mitchell (Scottish entrepreneur) (1781–1854), co-founder of the Alloa Coal Company
- William Mitchell, former alias of actor Peter Finch
- William Paul Mitchell, known as Large Professor, American hip hop producer
- W. Franklin Mitchell, Republican politician from North Carolina, USA
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.”
—Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846)
“It is no part of the functions of the National Government to find employment for the people, and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for his purpose, we should only be taxing 40 millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.”
—James A. Garfield (1831–1881)