William Temple

William Temple may refer to:

Sir William Temple (logician) (1555–1627), English Ramist logician and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628–1699), English diplomat, politician and essayist, employer of Jonathan Swift
William Johnson Temple (1739–1796), English cleric and essayist, a correspondent of James Boswell
William Temple (politician) (1814–1863), American merchant and Governor of Delaware
William Temple (VC) (1833–1919), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
William Chase Temple (1862–1917), American coal and lumber baron, owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates
William Temple (bishop) (1881–1944), Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury
William Horace Temple (1899–1988), Canadian temperance crusader, businessman, CCF member of the Ontario Legislature, 1948–1951
William F. Temple (1914–1989), British science fiction writer
Bill Temple (footballer), (1914–2006), English footballer