# William Hay

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**William**, **Will**, **Willie**, or **Bill Hay** may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

- [William Hay (architect)](/source/William_Hay_(architect)) (1818–1888), Scottish architect
- [William Delisle Hay](/source/William_Delisle_Hay) (born 1853), British author
- [William Hay (author)](/source/William_Hay_(author)) (1875–1945), Australian novelist and essayist
- [Bill Hay (radio announcer)](/source/Bill_Hay_(radio_announcer)) (1887–1978), American radio announcer
- [Will Hay](/source/Will_Hay) (1888–1949), English comedian and actor

## Law and politics

- [William Hay (died 1664)](/source/William_Hay_(died_1664)) (1594–1664), English politician
- [William Hay (Seaford MP)](/source/William_Hay_(Seaford_MP)) (1695–1755), British MP for Seaford
- [William Robert Hay](/source/William_Robert_Hay) (1761–1839), British barrister, cleric and magistrate
- [William Hay (Australian politician)](/source/William_Hay_(Australian_politician)) (1816–1908)
- [Willie Hay, Baron Hay of Ballyore](/source/Willie_Hay,_Baron_Hay_of_Ballyore) (born 1950), Northern Irish peer and Assemblyman

## Nobility

- [William Hay, 1st Earl of Erroll](/source/William_Hay,_1st_Earl_of_Erroll) (1423–1462), Scottish peer
- [William Hay, 3rd Earl of Erroll](/source/William_Hay,_3rd_Earl_of_Erroll) (1449–1507), Scottish peer
- [William Hay, 4th Earl of Erroll](/source/William_Hay,_4th_Earl_of_Erroll) (1449–1513), Scottish peer and soldier
- [William Hay, 5th Earl of Erroll](/source/William_Hay,_5th_Earl_of_Erroll) (1495–1522), Scottish peer and statesman
- [William Hay, 6th Earl of Erroll](/source/William_Hay,_6th_Earl_of_Erroll) (1521–1541), Scottish peer
- [William Hay, 6th Lord Hay of Yester](/source/William_Hay,_6th_Lord_Hay_of_Yester) (died 1591), Scottish nobleman and courtier
- [William Hay, 10th Earl of Erroll](/source/William_Hay,_10th_Earl_of_Erroll) (1590s–1636), Scottish nobleman
- [William Hay, 4th Earl of Kinnoull](/source/William_Hay,_4th_Earl_of_Kinnoull) (died 1677), Scottish peer
- [William Hay, 6th Earl of Kinnoull](/source/William_Hay,_6th_Earl_of_Kinnoull) (died 1709), Scottish peer
- [William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll](/source/William_Hay,_17th_Earl_of_Erroll) (1772–1819), Scottish peer
- [William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll](/source/William_Hay,_18th_Earl_of_Erroll) (1801–1846), Scottish peer
- [William Hay, 19th Earl of Erroll](/source/William_Hay,_19th_Earl_of_Erroll) (1823–1891), Scottish peer
- [William Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale](/source/William_Hay,_10th_Marquess_of_Tweeddale) (1826–1911), British politician, MP for Taunton and Haddington
- [William Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale](/source/William_Hay,_11th_Marquess_of_Tweeddale) (1884–1967), Scottish aristocrat, land owner and soldier
- [William Hay, 15th Earl of Kinnoull](/source/William_Hay,_15th_Earl_of_Kinnoull) (1935–2013), Scottish peer, surveyor and farmer

## Science and medicine

- [William Howard Hay](/source/William_Howard_Hay) (1866–1940), American doctor, author, lecturer and dietician
- [William Perry Hay](/source/William_Perry_Hay) (1872–1947), American zoologist
- [William Walter Hay](/source/William_Walter_Hay) (1908–1998), American civil engineer and professor of railway engineering
- [William W. Hay](/source/William_W._Hay) (1934–2022), American geologist and paleoclimatologist

## Sports

- [William Hay (English cricketer)](/source/William_Hay_(English_cricketer)) (1849–1925), English cricketer
- [Arthur Hay (cricketer)](/source/Arthur_Hay_(cricketer)) (William Arthur Hay, 1873–1945), Australian Methodist minister and cricketer
- [Bill Hay (footballer)](/source/Bill_Hay_(footballer)) (1934–2018), Australian footballer
- [Bill Hay (field hockey)](/source/Bill_Hay_(field_hockey)) (born 1934), Singaporean Olympic hockey player
- [Bill Hay](/source/Bill_Hay) (born 1935), Canadian ice hockey player
- [Billy Hay (bowls)](/source/Billy_Hay_(bowls)) (1963–2015), Scottish lawn bowler

## Others

- [William Hay (bishop)](/source/William_Hay_(bishop)) (1647–1707), Scottish bishop
- [William Hay (police commissioner)](/source/William_Hay_(police_commissioner)) (1794–1855), English police commissioner
- [William H. Hay](/source/William_H._Hay) (1860–1946), United States Army officer
- [Rupert Hay](/source/Rupert_Hay) (William Rupert Hay, 1893–1962), British Indian Army officer and administrator

## See also

- [William Haye](/source/William_Haye) (1948–2019), Jamaican cricketer
- [William Hay Macnaghten](/source/William_Hay_Macnaghten) (1793–1841), Anglo-Indian civil servant
- [William Hays (disambiguation)](/source/William_Hays_(disambiguation))
- [William Hayes (disambiguation)](/source/William_Hayes_(disambiguation))

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