William Reid
# William Reid

William Reid may refer to:

## Politicians

* William Allan Reid (1865–1952), British Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Derby 1931–1945
* William Earl Reid (1934–2013), politician in British Columbia, Canada
* William Ferguson Reid (born 1925), Virginia physician, politician and civil rights activist
* William Henry Reid (1846–1912), Ontario farmer and political figure
* William Reid (British politician) (1889–1965), United Kingdom Member of Parliament for Glasgow Provan 1955–1964
* William Reid (New York politician) (1827–1906), American manufacturer and politician from New York
* Willie Mae Reid, African-American politician, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Chicago, 1975

## Sportspeople

### American football

* Bill Reid (American football coach) (1878–1976), American football player and coach
* Bill Reid (center) (born 1952), American football player
* Willie Reid (American football) (born 1982), American football player

### Association football

* Willie Reid (football manager) (died 1975), manager of Norwich City F.C. (1961–1962)
* Willie Reid (footballer, born 1884) (1884–1964), Scottish international footballer and manager, who played as a striker for Rangers, Motherwell and Albion Rovers
* Willie Reid (footballer, born 1903) (1903–1967), Irish footballer for Glentoran, Bethlehem Steel, Heart of Midlothian

### Other sports

* William Reid (basketball) (1893–1955), basketball coach and administrator
* William Reid (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1910s for England, and Widnes
* William Reid (South Australia cricketer) (1867–1943), Australian cricketer
* William Reid (Tasmania cricketer) (1882–1950), Tasmania cricketer

## Others

* William Reid (British Army officer) (1791–1858), British soldier and Governor of the Bermudas, Windward Islands, and Malta
* William Reid (civil servant) (born 1931), former Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
* William Reid (mining engineer) (1906–1985), Scottish coal expert and co-author of the "Reid Report" on the state of British coal-mining
* William Reid (musician) (born 1958), guitarist with The Jesus and Mary Chain
* William Reid (Scottish businessman) (1842–?), early financier of railroads in Oregon's Willamette Valley
* William Reid (VC) (1921–2001), Scottish World War II war hero
* William Arbuckle Reid (1933–2015), British educator, curriculum theorist, and philosophical disciple of Joseph Schwab
* William Hamilton Reid (died 1826), British poet and hack writer
* William P. Reid (1854–1932), Scottish locomotive engineer
* William Reid (military historian) (1926–2014), Scottish military historian
* William Reid (psychiatrist), American forensic psychiatrist
* William S. Reid (1778–1853), vice president and acting president of Hampden–Sydney College
* William Reid IV, American lawyer
* Bill Reid (1920–1998), artist
* Gordon Reid (priest) (William Gordon Reid, born 1942), 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
