William Temple
William Temple may refer to:
- Sir William Temple , English Ramist logician and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
- Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, English diplomat, politician and essayist, employer of Jonathan Swift
- William Johnson Temple, English cleric and essayist, a correspondent of James Boswell
- William Temple , American merchant and Governor of Delaware
- William Temple , Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William Chase Temple, American coal and lumber baron, owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates
- William Temple , Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury
- William Horace Temple, Canadian temperance crusader, businessman, CCF member of the Ontario Legislature, 1948–1951
- William F. Temple, British science fiction writer
- Bill Temple,, English footballer