William "Bill" Cartwright (c. 1923 – June 7, 2012) was a Bahamian politician, realtor and magazine publisher.
[2] Cartwright resided at the Good Samaritan Home in Nassau for the final two years of his life.
[2] Bahamas Governor-General Arthur Foulkes had visited Cartwright three weeks before his death.
[2] Prime Minister of the Bahamas and leader of the PLP, Perry Christie, presented a speech in honor of Cartwright to the Assembly, calling him a "national hero" who contributed a "historical role he had played in laying the foundations for party politics in The Bahamas.
"[1][2] Loretta Butler-Turner, the deputy leader of the opposition Free National Movement (FNM) and MP for Cartwright's native Long Island, said that "He is in his own right a founder of the modern Bahamas.