William Read

William Read may refer to:
 * William Read (priest), Archdeacon of Barnstaple, 1679–1703
 * William Read (oculist) (1648–1715), quack medical practitioner
 * William Read (pirate) (died 1701), pirate active in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar
 * William Brown Read (1817–1880), American politician and lawyer from Kentucky
 * William Henry Macleod Read (1819–1909), British businessman and public servant in Singapore
 * William Read (Australian politician) (1882–1974), Australian politician
 * William Ronald Read (1885–1972), British Royal Air Force officer of the First World War
 * William L. Read, American meteorologist