William Whitney

William Whitney or William Witney may refer to:

  • William Channing Whitney (1851—1945), American architect
  • William Collins Whitney (1841-1904), American politician, financier, founder of the prominent Whitney family, US Secretary of the Navy
  • William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894), American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer who edited The Century Dictionary
  • William Payne Whitney (1876-1927), American businessman, philanthropist, racehorse breeder and owner
  • William Witney (1915-2002), American director of serials and westerns sometimes billed as William Whitney
  • Bill Whitney, U.S. journalist

Famous quotes containing the word william:

    “I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word “culture” used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.”
    —Josephine Woodward, U.S. author. As quoted in Everyone Was Brave, ch. 3, by William L. O’Neill (1969)