William Reid

William Reid may refer to:

Politicians

 * William Allan Reid (1865–1952), British Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Derby 1931–1945
 * William Earl Reid (1934–2013), politician in British Columbia, Canada
 * William Ferguson Reid (born 1925), Virginia physician, politician and civil rights activist
 * William Henry Reid (1846–1912), Ontario farmer and political figure
 * William Reid (British politician) (1889–1965), United Kingdom Member of Parliament for Glasgow Provan 1955–1964
 * William Reid (New York politician) (1827–1906), American manufacturer and politician from New York

Sportspeople

 * William Reid (basketball) (1893–1955), basketball coach and administrator
 * William Reid (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1910s for England, and Widnes
 * William Reid (South Australia cricketer) (1867–1943), Australian cricketer
 * William Reid (Tasmania cricketer) (1882–1950), Tasmania cricketer

Others

 * William Reid (British Army officer) (1791–1858), British soldier and Governor of the Bermudas, Windward Islands, and Malta
 * William Reid (civil servant) (born 1931), former Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
 * William Reid (mining engineer) (1906–1985), Scottish coal expert and co-author of the "Reid Report" on the state of British coal-mining
 * William Reid (musician) (born 1958), guitarist with The Jesus and Mary Chain
 * William Reid (Scottish businessman) (1842–?), early financier of railroads in Oregon's Willamette Valley
 * William Reid (VC) (1921–2001), Scottish World War II war hero
 * William Arbuckle Reid (1933–2015), British educator, curriculum theorist, and philosophical disciple of Joseph Schwab
 * William Hamilton Reid (died 1826), British poet and hack writer
 * William P. Reid (1854–1932), Scottish locomotive engineer
 * William Reid (military historian) (1926–2014), Scottish military historian
 * William Reid (psychiatrist), American forensic psychiatrist
 * William S. Reid (1778–1853), vice president and acting president of Hampden–Sydney College
 * William Reid IV, American lawyer
 * Gordon Reid (priest) (William Gordon Reid, born 1942), Anglican priest, former Dean of Gibraltar and Vicar General of the Diocese of Europe

Characters

 * William Reid, a character in Criminal Minds, father of Dr. Spencer Reid