William Thomson

William Thomson may refer to:

  • Williamäääääää(military officer), American militia captain
  • William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824–1907), UK physicist now usually known as Lord Kelvin
  • William Thomson (bishop) (1819–1890), Archbishop of York, 1862–1890
  • William Thomson (musicologist) (fl. 1695–1753), Scottish folk song collector and singer
  • William Alexander Thomson (1816–1878), Canadian author and politician
  • Sir William Thomson (Solicitor General), Solicitor General for England and Wales, 1717–1720
  • William Ennis Thomson (born 1927), music school dean, music theorist, music educator and composer
  • William McKenzie Thomson (1898–1987), Canadian World War I pilot
  • W. H. Seward Thomson (1856–1932), U.S. federal judge
  • William Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baron Selsdon (1877–1938), British politician
  • William Thomson (politician) (1818–1866), Member of Parliament in Christchurch, New Zealand

Famous quotes containing the words william and/or thomson:

    Here lies the body of William Jones
    Who all his life collected bones,
    Till Death, that grim and boney spectre,
    That universal bone collector,
    Boned old Jones, so neat and tidy,
    And here he lies, all bona fide.
    —Anonymous. “Epitaph on William Jones,” from Eleanor Broughton’s Varia (1925)

    And all sad scenes and thoughts and feelings vanish
    In that sweet sleep no power can ever banish,
    That one best sleep which never wakes again.
    —James Thomson (1834–1882)