The township was first named "York" and later "Beach" before finally being named for William Rainey Marshall in 1870.
William Shakespeare | William Laud | William Blake | William | William III of England | William Morris | William McKinley | William Howard Taft | William Ewart Gladstone | John Marshall | William the Conqueror | William S. Burroughs | William Shatner | William Faulkner | William Randolph Hearst | William Wordsworth | William Tecumseh Sherman | Marshall Islands | William Hogarth | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge | William Penn | Marshall | William Jennings Bryan | Marshall Plan | William Gibson | Thurgood Marshall | William Wilberforce | William James | William Makepeace Thackeray | Fort William |
Saint Anthony Park was the home to three Minnesota governors (William Rainey Marshall, 1866–70; Andrew Ryan McGill, 1887–1889; and Elmer L. Andersen; 1961–63).