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)