William Molyneux FRS was an Anglo-Irish writer and philosopher. He is noted as a close friend of fellow philosopher John Locke, and for proposing Molyneux's problem, a thought experiment widely discussed.
- Occupation
- astronomer, politician, philosopher, physicist
- Position held
- Surveyor General of Ireland, deputy
- Citizenship
- Ireland
- Born
- April 17, 1656
- Died
- October 11, 1698
