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 words william and/or fisher:
“In enterprise of martial kind,
When there was any fighting,
He led his regiment from behind—
He found it less exciting.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“People ask me: “Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don’t you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?”... The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)