William Woods may refer to:
- William Aaron Woods "Bill Woods", Researcher in natural language processing and semantics
- William Woods (congressman) (1790–1837), U.S. Representative from New York, 1823–1825
- William Woods (officer of arms) (1785–1842), British officer of arms at the College of Arms in London
- William Allen Woods (d. 1901), U.S. federal judge
- William Burnham Woods (1824–1887), American jurist, politician, and soldier
- William Carlton Woods (1891–1965), politician in Saskatchewan, Canada
- William Woods University, university in Fulton, Missouri
Famous quotes containing the word woods:
“Thou waitest late and com’st alone,
When woods are bare and birds are flown,”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)