Billy (name)

Billy is a masculine given name and a common nickname for William. Notable people with the name include:

• Billy the Kid (1859–1881), American Old West gunfighter born Henry McCarty, also known as William H. Bonney
• Billy Baldwin (decorator) (1903-1983), American interior decorator
• Billy Baldwin (baseball) (1951–2011), American Major League Baseball outfielder
• Billy Barnes (disambiguation)
• Billy Bland (1932–2017), American R&B singer and songwriter
• Billy Boyd (disambiguation)
• Billy Blue (c. 1767-1834), African-American convict transported to Australia
• Billy Brown (disambiguation)
• Billy Burke (disambiguation)
• Billy Butler (singer) (1945–2015), American soul singer and songwriter
• Billy Connolly (born 1942), Scottish comedian
• Billy Corgan (born 1967), American musician, frontman of Smashing Pumpkins
• Billy Crawford (born 1982), Filipino-American actor and television personality
• Billy Crook (English footballer) (1926–2011)
• Billy Crook (American soccer) (born 1964)
• Billy Crystal (born 1948), American comedian
• Billy Davis (disambiguation)
• Billy Eppler (born 1975), American baseball executive
• Billy Fox (politician) (1939-1974), Irish politician
• Billy Fox (boxer) (born 1923), American light-heavyweight boxer
• Billy Forbes (Scottish footballer) (fl. 1911-1926)
• Billy Forbes (footballer, born 1990), Turks and Caicos Islands footballer
• Billy Gibbons (born 1949), American musician
• Billy Graham (1918–2018), American evangelist
• Billy Hahn (born 1953), American basketball coach
• Billy Howard (gridiron football) (born 1950), American football player
• Billy Howerdel (born 1970), American musician, founding member of A Perfect Circle, frontman of ASHES dIVIDE
• Billy Herrington (1969-2018), American actor
• Billy Idol (born 1955), English rock musician
• Billy Joel (born 1949), American musician
• Billy Johnson (disambiguation)
• Billy Jones (disambiguation)
• Billy Knight (born 1952), American basketball player and executive
• Billy Knight (basketball, born 1979) (1979–2018), American basketball player
• Billy Knight (tennis) (born 1935), British tennis player
• Billy Martin (1928-1989), American baseball player and manager
• Billy Masters (columnist) (born 1969), American gossip columnist
• Billy Masters (American football) (born 1944), former American Football League and National Football League player
• Billy Rush Masters (1950–1981), American composer and rock guitarist
• Billy Mays (1958-2009), American television salesperson
• Billy Mays (footballer) (1902–1959), Welsh footballer
• Billy McShepard (born 1987), American basketball player in the Israeli National League
• Billy Murray (disambiguation)
• Billy Name (1940-2016), American lighting designer
• Billy Ouattara (born 1992), Ghanaian/French basketball player
• Billy Parker (disambiguation)
• Billy Payne (born 1947), American golf administrator
• Billy Price (American football) (born 1995), American football player
• Billy Reid (fashion designer)
• Billy Joe Royal (1942–2015), American singer
• Billy Sharp (born 1986), English footballer
• Billy Sheehan (born 1953), American bass player
• Billy Smart Jr. (1934–2005), British circus performer and impresario
• Billy Sneddon (1926-1987), Australian politician
• Billy Tauzin (born 1943), American lobbyist and politician
• Billy Taylor (disambiguation)
• Billy Wade (cricketer) (1914–2003), South African cricketer
• Billy Wade (racing driver) (1930–1965), American race car driver
• Billy West (born 1952), American voice actor
• Billy Walker (disambiguation)
• Billy Williams (disambiguation)
• Billy Wright (disambiguation)
• Billy Zane (born 1966), American actor
• Billy (slave), an African-American slave accused of treason
• Reverend Billy, of Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, New York City-based performance group

Fictional

• Billy Loomis and Stu Macher, the killers in Scream; they were wearing ghostface masks
• Billy Whizz, a character in the UK comic The Beano
• Billy Kessler, a character in the comic book series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
• the title character of Billy Elliot, a film about a boy aspiring to be a ballet dancer
• Billy Hitchcock, a character from the Final Destination
• Billy Coen, a character in Resident Evil:Zero
• Billy Kane, a Fatal Fury character
• Billy Lee Black, a character in Xenogears
• the title character of Billy Budd, a novella by Herman Melville
• Billy Pilgrim, protagonist in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five
• Billy Cranston, the original Blue Ranger from the Power Rangers TV series
• Billy Keikeya, aide to President Laura Roslin in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica TV series
• Billy Williams (Coronation Street), fictional character on the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Billy Twofeathers, a Native American character on Shining Time Station

See also

• Billie (disambiguation)
• Billy (disambiguation)
• Bertrand de Billy (born 1965), French conductor
• Jacques de Billy (1602-1679), French Jesuit mathematician
• Jacques de Billy (abbot) (1535-1581), French patristic scholar, theologian, jurist, linguist and Benedictine abbot