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William W. (Bill) Hay (born 12 October, 1934) is an American geoscientist and author. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder and lives in Estes Park, Colorado.

His most significant recent acheivement was a book published in 2013, called “Experimenting on a Small Planet - A Scholarly Entertainment” about past and future climate change.

Early Life and Education
Bill Hay was born on October 12, 1934, in Dallas, Texas. He received his B.S. in Biology from Southern Methodist University in 1955, M.S. in Geology from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1958, and Ph.D. in Geology from Stanford University in 1960. As an undergraduate and graduate student he also studied at Ludwig-Maximillian’s University in Munich under the Wayne State University “Junior Year in Munich” program, and the University of Zurich as a Fellow of the "Swiss Friends of the USA".