William Stafford may refer to:
- William Stafford (courtier) (c. 1500–1556), courtier to Henry VIII and Edward VI of England
- William Stafford (conspirator) (1554–1612), courtier and conspirator
- William Stafford (author) (1593–1684), British author
- William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford (1614-1680), British nobleman and Roman Catholic martyr
- William H. Stafford (1869–1957), United States Representative for Wisconsin
- William Stafford (poet) (1914–1993), American poet
- William Henry Stafford Jr. (born 1931), United States federal judge
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Famous quotes containing the words william and/or stafford:
“Well, I know you haven’t had much experience writing and none at all in pictures. But I’ve heard about you. It all sounded like you’re just the man I wanted for a story about the Navy. I don’t want a story just about ships and planes. I want a story about the officers.... I want this story from a pen dipped in salt water not dry martinis. Do you know what I mean?”
—Frank Fenton, William Wister Haines, co-scenarist, and John Ford. John Dodge (Ward Bond)
“a doe, a recent killing;
she had stiffened already, almost cold.
I dragged her off she was large in the belly.”
—William Stafford (1914–1941)