William Light

For other similarly named people, see William Light (disambiguation) Colonel William Light (27 April 1786 – 6 October 1839) was a British-Malaysian naval and army officer and a painter. He was the first Surveyor-General of the Colony of South Australia and he is famous for choosing the site of the province's capital, Adelaide, and for designing the layout of its streets and parks – in the Adelaide city centre and the Adelaide Park Lands.