William Rose
William Rose may refer to:
Sports
- William Rose (footballer), England international footballer
- William Rose (cricketer, born 1934), former English cricketer
- William Rose (cricketer, born 1842), English cricketer
- Bill Rose (footballer), Australian rules footballer
- Billy Rose (curler), Canadian curler
Politicians
- William Rose I, MP for Weymouth
- William Rose (MP for Canterbury), MP for Canterbury
- William Oliver Rose, physician and politician in British Columbia, Canada
- William Stewart Rose, poet, translator, Treasurer of the Navy, Member of Parliament
- Sir William Rose (Clerk of the Parliaments), clerk of the Parliaments
- William Anderson Rose, businessman, MP and Lord Mayor of London
- William G. Rose, Republican mayor of Cleveland, Ohio
- William Edward Rose, American hotelier, railroad president and politician in South Carolina
- William Pinckney Rose, American soldier and participant in the Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1832.
Others
- William Balthazar Rose, British painter
- William Rose (schoolmaster and writer), Scottish schoolmaster and classical scholar
- William Cumming Rose, American nutritionist
- William Rose (illustrator), American film poster illustrator
- William Rose (screenwriter), American screenwriter
- Axl Rose, Guns N' Roses vocalist
- William I. Rose (geologist), American mineralogist
- William I. Rose (United States Army officer), American military officer
- Sir William Rose, 2nd Baronet, owner in Victorian times of Moor Park, Farnham
- William Kinnaird Rose, editor of the Brisbane Courier
- William John Rose, Canadian Slavist and historian
- Billy Rose, American theatrical showman