Editing William Hamilton (section)

== Academics ==
*[[Robert William Hamilton Jr.]] (1930–2011), known as Bill, American hyperbaric physiologist 
*[[William Hamilton (university principal)]] (1669–1732), Principal of the University of Edinburgh
*[[William Hamilton (surgeon)]] (died 1717), surgeon in the British East India Company
*[[Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet]] (1788–1856), Scottish metaphysician
*[[William Rowan Hamilton]] (1805–1865), mathematician, astronomer and physicist who lived in Dublin in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
*[[William Edwin Hamilton]] (1834–1902), son of William Rowan and publisher of his ''Elements of Quaternions'' (1866)
*[[William Hamilton (geologist)]] (1805–1867), English geologist
*[[William F. Hamilton (physician)]] (1893–1964), American physician
*[[William F. Hamilton (professor)]] (born 1941), professorship of management and technology
*[[William Hamilton (theologian)]] (1924–2012), American theologian
*[[W. D. Hamilton]] (1936–2000), British evolutionary biologist and geneticist
*[[Bill Hamilton (agricultural scientist)]] (1909–1992), New Zealand agricultural scientist and scientific administrator
*[[Willie Hamilton (academic)]] (born 1958), expert in cancer diagnosis
*[[William Baskerville Hamilton]], historian