Literature and Arts
- William Cooper (novelist) (1910–2002), British novelist
- William Cooper Nell (1816–1874), African American abolitionist
- William Heaton Cooper (1903–1995), British landscape artist
- William T. Cooper (born 1934), Australian natural history illustrator
- Revd William Cooper (1824–1892), pseudonym of James Bertram, a Scottish pornography producer
- William Sidney Cooper (1854–1927), English landscape artist
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