William Reid
William Reid may refer to:
Politicians
- William Allan Reid, British Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Derby 1931-1945
- William Earl Reid, politician in British Columbia, Canada
- William Ferguson Reid, Virginia physician, politician and civil rights activist
- William Henry Reid, Ontario farmer and political figure
- William Reid (British politician), United Kingdom Member of Parliament for Glasgow Provan 1955–1964
- William Reid (New York politician), American manufacturer and politician from New York
Sportspeople
- William Reid (basketball), basketball coach and administrator
- William Reid (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1910s for England, and Widnes
- William Reid (South Australia cricketer), Australian cricketer
- William Reid (Tasmania cricketer), Tasmania cricketer
Others
- William Reid (British Army officer), British soldier and Governor of the Bermudas, Windward Islands, and Malta
- Sir William Reid, British former Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
- William Reid (mining engineer), Scottish coal expert and co-author of the "Reid Report" on the state of British coal-mining
- William Reid (musician), guitarist with The Jesus and Mary Chain
- William Reid (Scottish businessman), early financier of railroads in Oregon's Willamette Valley
- William Reid (VC), Scottish World War II war hero
- William Arbuckle Reid, British educator, curriculum theorist, and philosophical disciple of Joseph Schwab
- William Hamilton Reid, British poet and hack writer
- William P. Reid, Scottish locomotive engineer
- William Reid (military historian), Scottish military historian
- William Reid (psychiatrist), American forensic psychiatrist
- William S. Reid, vice president and acting president of Hampden–Sydney College
- William Reid IV, American lawyer
- Gordon Reid (priest), 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