# William Cook

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**William**, **Will**, **Willie**, **Bill** or **Billy Cook** may refer to:

## Sportsmen

### Association football (soccer)

- [William Cook (footballer)](/source/William_Cook_(footballer)) (1907–1968), English footballer who played for Darlington and Gateshead
- [Willie Cook (footballer)](/source/Willie_Cook_(footballer)) (1906–1981), Scottish footballer
- [Billy Cook (footballer, born 1890)](/source/Billy_Cook_(footballer,_born_1890)) (1890–1974), English-born footballer who played for Sheffield United
- [Billy Cook (footballer, born 1895)](/source/Billy_Cook_(footballer,_born_1895)) (1895–1980), Huddersfield Town, Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur
- [Billy Cook (footballer, born 1909)](/source/Billy_Cook_(footballer,_born_1909)) (1909–1992), Irish footballer who played for Celtic and Everton
- [Billy Cook (footballer, born 1940)](/source/Billy_Cook_(footballer,_born_1940)) (1940–2017), Scottish-born footballer who played for Australia

### Cricket

- [William Cook (Lancashire cricketer)](/source/William_Cook_(Lancashire_cricketer)) (1881–1947), English cricketer
- [William Cook (Surrey cricketer)](/source/William_Cook_(Surrey_cricketer)) (1891–1969), English cricketer
- [William Cook (Leeds/Bradford MCCU cricketer)](/source/William_Cook_(Leeds/Bradford_MCCU_cricketer)) (born 1995), English cricketer

### Other sports

- [William Cook (billiards player)](/source/William_Cook_(billiards_player)) (1849–1893), World Champion of English billiards in the 19th century
- [W. T. Cook](/source/W._T._Cook) (William Thomas Cook, 1884–1970), American college sports coach
- [Bill Cook (footballer, born 1887)](/source/Bill_Cook_(footballer,_born_1887)) (1887–1949), Australian rules footballer for Carlton
- [Bill Cook (footballer, born 1937)](/source/Bill_Cook_(footballer,_born_1937)), Australian rules footballer for Geelong
- [Bill Cook](/source/Bill_Cook) (1895–1986), Canadian ice hockey player in the Hockey Hall of Fame
- [Bill Cook (American football)](/source/Bill_Cook_(American_football)) (c. 1904–1976), American junior college football coach
- [Billy Cook (jockey)](/source/Billy_Cook_(jockey)) (1910–1985), Australian jockey
- [Billy Cook (baseball)](/source/Billy_Cook_(baseball)) (born 1999), baseball player

## Politicians and judges

- [Sir William Cook, 2nd Baronet](/source/Sir_William_Cook,_2nd_Baronet) (1630–1708), member of parliament
- [William Cook (British industrialist)](/source/William_Cook_(British_industrialist)) (1834–1908), British industrialist and politician
- [William Cook (MP)](/source/William_Cook_(MP)), member of parliament for [Lewes](/source/Lewes_(UK_Parliament_constituency))
- [William Hemmings Cook](/source/William_Hemmings_Cook) (1768–1846), Canadian fur trader and politician, member of [council of Assiniboia](/source/Council_of_Assiniboia)
- [William Henry Harrison Cook](/source/William_Henry_Harrison_Cook) (1840–1923), soldier, teacher, minister and state legislator in West Virginia
- [William Henry Cook](/source/William_Henry_Cook) (1874–1937), justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi
- [William Loch Cook](/source/William_Loch_Cook) (1869–1942), justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court
- [Bill Cook (politician)](/source/Bill_Cook_(politician)) (born 1945), Republican state senator for North Carolina

## Musicians

- [Willie Cook](/source/Willie_Cook) (1923–2000), American jazz trumpeter
- [Antony Tudor](/source/Antony_Tudor) (William Cook, 1908–1987), English choreographer
- [Will Marion Cook](/source/Will_Marion_Cook) (1869–1944), American composer and violinist
- [Will Joseph Cook](/source/Will_Joseph_Cook), English singer-songwriter

## Writers and artists

- [William Delafield Cook](/source/William_Delafield_Cook) (1936–2015), Australian artist
- [William Edwards Cook](/source/William_Edwards_Cook) (1881–1959), American-born expatriate artist, architectural patron, and long-time friend of writer Gertrude Stein
- [William Wallace Cook](/source/William_Wallace_Cook) (1867–1933), American journalist and author
- [Will Cook (writer)](/source/Will_Cook_(writer)) (William Everett Cook, 1921–1964), American writer of westerns

## Scientists

- [William Cook (computer scientist)](/source/William_Cook_(computer_scientist)) (1963–2021), American computer scientist
- [William Harrison Cook](/source/William_Harrison_Cook) (1903–1998), Canadian chemist
- [William J. Cook](/source/William_J._Cook) (born 1957), American operations researcher and mathematician
- [William Richard Joseph Cook](/source/William_Richard_Joseph_Cook) (1905–1987), Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence of Great Britain 1966–1970, mathematician and civil servant
- William Cook, 19th- and early-20th-century creator of the [Orpington poultry breeds](/source/Orpington_chicken)

## Others

- [William Cook (entrepreneur)](/source/William_Cook_(entrepreneur)) (1931–2011), American medical equipment manufacturer
- [William Cook (pioneer)](/source/William_Cook_(pioneer)) (18th century), founder of Russellville, Kentucky
- [William Douglas Cook](/source/William_Douglas_Cook) (1884–1967), founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum, now the national arboretum of New Zealand
- [William W. Cook](/source/William_W._Cook) (1858–1930), American attorney and legal scholar
- [Billy Cook (actor)](/source/Billy_Cook_(actor)) (1928–1981), American actor
- [Billy Cook (criminal)](/source/Billy_Cook_(criminal)) (1928–1952), American spree killer and mass murderer
- William Cook (1908–1987), English choreographer, better known as [Antony Tudor](/source/Antony_Tudor)

## See also

- [William Cooke (disambiguation)](/source/William_Cooke_(disambiguation))

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