William Russell’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro English engineer and designer
A.K.A. William Morris Russell, Bill Morris
Was Engineer 
Designer 
From United Kingdom 
Type Arts 
Creativity 
Engineering 
Gender male
Birth 17 January 1920
Death 17 January 2006
(aged 86 years)

William, Willy or Bill Russell (or other variants) may refer to:

In politics

Australia

  • William Russell (Australian politician) (1842–1912), Australian senator from South Australia
  • William Russell (New South Wales politician) (1807–1866), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and Council

New Zealand

  • William Russell (New Zealand politician) (1838–1913), Member of Parliament

Kingdom of England

  • William Russell (knight) (1257–1311), holder of a moiety of the feudal barony of North Cadbury, Somerset
  • William Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh (died 1613), English military commander
  • Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Chippenham (died 1654), English MP for Windsor
  • Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Wytley (c. 1602–1669), English MP for Worcestershire
  • William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford (1616–1700), British peer and soldier
  • William Russell, Lord Russell (1639–1683), English politician

United Kingdom

  • Lord William Russell (1767–1840), MP best known as a murder victim
  • Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Charlton Park (1773–1839), British baronet
  • William Congreve Russell (1778–1850), English MP and High Sheriff of Worcestershire
  • William Russell (1798–1850), British Member of Parliament (MP) for Saltash, Bletchingley and County Durham
  • William Russell, 8th Duke of Bedford (1809–1872), member of the United Kingdom Parliament
  • Sir William Russell, 2nd Baronet (1822–1892), MP for Dover, 1857–1859
  • William Russell (Bolton MP) (1859–1937), Member of Parliament for Bolton, 1922–1923

United States

  • William Russell (Virginia) (1735–1793), Virginia frontier soldier and legislator, father of William Russell of Kentucky
  • William Russell (Kentucky) (1758–1825), American soldier, pioneer, and politician
  • William Russell (Ohio politician) (1782–1845), U.S. Representative from Ohio
  • William Huntington Russell (1809–1885), U.S. businessman, educator and politician from Connecticut, and co-founder of the Yale University secret society Skull and Bones
  • William Fiero Russell (1812–1896), American congressman from New York
  • William A. Russell (New York) (fl. 1850s), New York politician
  • William Russell (governor) (1857–1896), governor of Massachusetts between 1891 and 1894
  • William Hepburn Russell (baseball) (died 1911), lawyer, politician and owner of the Boston Braves baseball team
  • William A. Russell (1831–1899), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
  • William F. Russell (Florida politician) (1805–?), Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives

Religious figures

  • William Russell (bishop of Sodor) (died 1374), Bishop over Man and the Isles from 1348 to 1374
  • William Russell (merchant) (1740–1818), Birmingham merchant and Unitarian
  • William Russell (bishop of North China) (1821–1879), Anglican bishop in China
  • William Thomas Russell (1863–1927), American Roman Catholic bishop of Charleston

Businessmen

  • William Hepburn Russell (1812–1872), founder of the Pony Express
  • William Greeneberry Russell (1818–1887), American miner

In sports

  • Willie Russell (fl. 1920s), Scottish footballer
  • Bill Russell (born 1934), American basketball player
  • Bill Russell (baseball) (born 1948), shortstop, coach and manager in Major League Baseball
  • Billy Russell (footballer, born 1935), England amateur international footballer
  • Billy Russell (footballer, born 1959) footballer and manager of Hull City
  • William Russell (fencer) (1896–1958), American Olympic fencer
  • William Russell (cricketer) (1866–1929), Australian-born English cricketer

In the arts

  • Bill Russell (composer) (1905–1992), American music historian and modernist composer
  • William Clark Russell (1844–1911), writer of nautical novels
  • William Russell (actor) (born 1924), British actor
  • William Russell (American actor) (1884–1929), American actor of stage and screen
  • Willy Russell (born 1947), British playwright, lyricist and composer
  • William Russell (organist) (1777–1813), organist and composer
  • Bill Russell (lyricist) (born 1949), Broadway lyricist
  • William D. Russell (director) (1908–1968), American film and television director

Others

  • William Russell (writer) (1741–1793), Scottish historical and miscellaneous writer
  • William Howard Russell (1820–1907), Irish reporter considered one of the first war correspondents
  • William Russell (educator) (1798–1873), American educator (born in Scotland)
  • William Fletcher Russell (1890–1956), president of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York
  • William W. Russell, United States Ambassador to Colombia, 1904–1905, and to Venezuela, 1905–1908
  • William D. Russell (historian) (born 1938), American historian and social activist
  • William Hamilton Russell (1856–1907), American architect
  • William Russell (physician) (1852–1940), Scottish pathologist and physician, see Russell bodies
  • Sir William Oldnall Russell (1785–1833), chief justice of Bengal and legal writer
  • William Carmichael Russell (1824–1905), Bengal Artillery officer
By association
  • Lady William Russell (1793–1874), wife of Lord George William Russell and socialite
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