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

See also

• William Reid (disambiguation)
• William Reed (disambiguation)
• William Read Scurry (1821–1864), General in the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War
• William Read Miller (1823–1887), Democratic Governor of the State of Arkansas
• William Rede (disambiguation)
• William Reade (disambiguation)