William Pickering
William Pickering may refer to:
Politicians[edit]
- William Pickering (Australian politician), Western Australian state MP
- William Pickering (governor) (1798–1873), Republican governor of Washington territory, 1862–1866
- William A. Pickering (1840–1907), first Protector appointed by the British government to administer the Chinese Protectorate in colonial Singapore
- William Pickering (British MP) for Warwick (UK Parliament constituency)
Sports[edit]
- William Pickering (cricketer) (1819–1905), organiser of the first overseas cricket tour by an English side
- William Pickering (footballer) (1894–1917), Scottish-born association football player, playing for English team Burnley
- Bill Pickering (footballer, born 1901) (1901–1971), English-born professional footballer, playing for English and Welsh teams
- Bill Pickering (Australian footballer) (1879–1939), Australian footballer for St Kilda
Others[edit]
- William Pickering (fiction), director of the National Reconnaissance Office in Dan Brown's book Deception Point
- William Pickering (publisher) (1796–1854), British publisher and bookseller
- Bill Pickering (rocket scientist) (1910–2004), director of the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1954 to 1976
- William Henry Pickering (1858–1938), American astronomer
This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.