Artists, Writers and Scholars
- William Allen (actor) (died 1647), English actor in the Caroline era
- William Allen (biographer) (1784–1868), American evangelical Congregationalist
- William Henry Allen (academician) (1808–1882), American professor
- William Francis Allen (1830–1889), American classical scholar
- W. H. Allen (1863–1943), English landscape watercolour artist
- William Allen (Utah architect) (1870–1928), American architect in Utah
- W. Sidney Allen (1918–2004), English linguist and philologist
- William Sheridan Allen (born 1932), American author and historian
- William B. Allen (born 1944), American political scientist
- William Allen Young (born 1954), American actor
- William Allen (artist) (born 1957), American poet and artist
- William Rodney Allen, American author and professor of English
- William T. Allen, professor of corporate law at New York University law school
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