William Hutchinson Norris (September 25, 1800 – July 13, 1893) was an American politician who was the founder of the city of Americana and a settlement in Santa Bárbara d'Oeste.

Norris was a colonel in the militia during the Mexican-American War and an Alabama senator as well, who left the U.S. for Brazil with 30 Confederate families.

His brother Frank Hutchinson Norris (1804 in Savannah, Georgia - 1878 in Santa Bárbara d'Oeste) was a South Carolina State Senator and merchant, who was a graduate of the College of Charleston.

Norris helped establish a Confederate American presence in Americana and Santa Bárbara d'Oeste where slavery was still legal, and he began planting cotton.

[1] During that period, Norris served as imperial congressman for the state of São Paulo, and he was commissioned the rank of Colonel of the National Guard.

In approximately 1812, the family relocated to Jasper County and shortly before 1820, Norris migrated to Alabama until he moved permanently to Brazil.

His brother Frank Hutchinson Norris (1804-1878) married Libby Jefferson Hopkins (1812-1890), a native of Annapolis, Maryland in 1835.