The following people by the name of William Thompson have achieved the rank of Colonel.
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William Thompson (1848–1934), fought Indians in Oregon and California and edited the Alturas Plaindealer.
William Shakespeare | Colonel | William Laud | William Blake | William | William III of England | William Morris | Lieutenant Colonel | Colonel (United States) | William McKinley | William Howard Taft | William Ewart Gladstone | William the Conqueror | William S. Burroughs | William Shatner | William Faulkner | William Randolph Hearst | William Wordsworth | William Tecumseh Sherman | colonel | William Hogarth | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge | Hunter S. Thompson | William Penn | William Jennings Bryan | William Gibson | William Wilberforce | William James | Lieutenant colonel (United States) | lieutenant colonel |