Academics and Authors
- William Jones (mathematician) (1675–1749), Welsh mathematician who proposed the use of the symbol π
- William Jones (college principal) (1676–1725), Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, 1720–1725
- William Jones (Welsh radical) (1726–1795), Welsh poet, antiquary and radical
- William Jones (naturalist) (1745–1818), English naturalist and entomologist
- Sir William Jones (philologist) (1746–1794), English philologist who proposed a relationship among Indo-European languages
- William Jones (anthropologist) (1871–1909), Native American specialist in Algonquian languages
- W. S. Jones (William Samuel Jones, 1920–2007), Welsh language writer
- William Eifion Jones (1925–2004), Welsh marine botanist
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