• William Thad Cochran (born 1937), U.S. Senator from Mississippi
• William Gemmell Cochran
  William Gemmell Cochran
  William Gemmell Cochran was a prominent statistician; he was born in Scotland but spent most of his life in the United States....
  
   (1909–1980), British-American statistician
• William Cochran (physicist)
  William Cochran (physicist)
  William Cochran was a prominent Scottish physicist.Bill Cochran was born in Scotland and educated at Boroughmuir High School in Edinburgh. He studied physics at the University of Edinburgh. He completed his PhD under Arnold Beevers in the Chemistry Department in X-ray crystallography of...
  
   (1922–2003), British physicist
• William Cochran (tenor)
  William Cochran (tenor)
  William Cochran was born on June 23, 1943, in Columbus, Ohio, and is an internationally-noted Heldentenor. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Martial Singher. A winner of the Lauritz Melchior Heldentenor Foundation Award, he debuted with the Metropolitan Opera, as Vogelgesang in Die...
  
   (born 1943), operatic tenor
• William D. Cochran
  William D. Cochran
  William Duscharme "Pink Cheeks" Cochran was an American football player. He played guard and tackle for the University of Michigan from 1913 to 1915. He was a first-team All-Western lineman and the captain of Michigan's 1915 football team. He later operated a freight trucking line based in the...
  
  , American football player
• William Cochran (artist)
  William Cochran (artist)
  William Cochran, born at Strathearn in Clydesdale, in 1738, received bis first instruction at the Academy of Painting at Glasgow, founded by the two celebrated printers, Robert and Andrew Foulis. About 1761 he went to Italy and studied under Gavin Hamilton, and on his return to Glasgow about 1766...
  
   (1738–1785), Scottish painter

See also

• William Cochrane (disambiguation)