William Pickering

William Pickering may refer to:

Politicians

• 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

• 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

• 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

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