William Temple

William Temple may refer to:


 * Sir William Temple (logician) (1555–1627), English Ramist logician and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
 * Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628–1699), English diplomat, politician and essayist, employer of Jonathan Swift
 * William Johnson Temple (1739–1796), English cleric and essayist, a correspondent of James Boswell
 * William Temple (politician) (1814–1863), American merchant and Governor of Delaware
 * William Temple (VC) (1833–1919), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * William Chase Temple (1862–1917), American coal and lumber baron, owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates
 * William Temple (bishop) (1881–1944), Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury
 * William Horace Temple (1899–1988), Canadian temperance crusader, businessman, CCF member of the Ontario Legislature, 1948–1951
 * William F. Temple (1914–1989), British science fiction writer
 * Bill Temple (footballer), (1914–2006), English footballer