William Kennedy may refer to:
- William Kennedy (explorer) (1814–1890), Canadian sailor and part of the search for Sir John Franklin
- William Kennedy (Royal Navy officer) (1838–1916), British admiral
- William Hew Clark-Kennedy (1879–1961), Canadian serviceman and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William James Kennedy, Acting President of Wolfson College, Oxford
- William Kennedy (author) (born 1928), American Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed
- William Kennedy Smith (born 1960), American physician and member of the Kennedy political family
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“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 29:18.
President John F. Kennedy quoted this passage on the eve of his assassination in Dallas, Texas. Quoted in Theodore C. Sorenson, Kennedy, epilogue (1965)