Feastday: August 13
Death: 1595
English martyr. Born in East Riding, Yorkshire, he studied at Oxford and was converted to Catholicism in 1586 by the martyrdom of Blessed Edward Stransahm at Tyburn. He went to Reims, France, where he was ordained in 1587. He went back to England the following year, and labored for the English mission in Worcestershire and Warwickshire until arrested in early 1595. Seven months later he was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Warwick on August 13. William was beatified in 1929.
William Freeman may refer to:
- William Freeman (martyr) (1558–1595), English Roman Catholic priest and martyr
- William Freeman (politician) (died c. 1801), land surveyor and politician in Nova Scotia
- William Henry Freeman (1844–1911), American Civil War soldier
- William M. Freeman, writer for The New York Times
- William T. Freeman (born 1957), American computer scientist
- Bill Freeman (author) (born 1938), Canadian author
- Bill Freeman (racing driver)
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