William Fisher

William Fisher may refer to:

  • William Arms Fisher (1861–1948), American music historian
  • William Frederick Fisher (born 1946), American astronaut
  • William Frederick Fisher (born 1839), Pony Express rider and great grandfather of American astronaut William Frederick Fisher
  • William Fisher (Royal Navy officer) (1780-1852), British naval officer
  • William Webster Fisher
  • William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham (1853–1920), British politician
  • William Wordsworth Fisher (1875–1937), British admiral
  • William W. Fisher, American legal academic
  • William Fisher (mayor), Mayor of Philadelphia, served 1773–1774
  • William Fisher (boxer), known as Willie Fisher, (born 1940), Scottish boxer
  • William Fisher (Nova Scotia politician) (1716–1777), farmer and politician in Nova Scotia
  • William Fisher, the Kirk Elder of Mauchline, who inspired Burn's poem Holy Willie's Prayer
See also
  • William Fischer (disambiguation)

Famous quotes containing the word fisher:

    Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy ...
    —M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)