William Minor is the name of:
William Chester Minor (1834–1920), American surgeon, prolific contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary William J. Minor (1808–1869), American planter and banker in the Antebellum South William T. Minor (1815–1889), American politician William Minor (New York City), New York assemblyman William Minor (poet) (born 1969), American minimalist poet Bill Minor (1922–2017), American journalist and columnist
See also William H. Miner (c. 1862–1930), American entrepreneur, industrialist, pioneer and philanthropist William Mynors, English sea-captain who named Christmas Island