title: William Reid
text: # 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
  