William Carpenter may refer to:
- William Carpenter (painter) (1818–1899), water colours of India
- William Carpenter (Australian politician) (1863–1930), Australian politician
- William Carpenter (writer) (born 1940), American author
- William Carpenter (flat Earth theorist) (1830–1896), advocate of the Flat Earth theory
- William Carpenter (Rhode Island) (c. 1610–1685), co-founder of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
- William Carpenter (1797-1874) (1797–1874), theological and political writer, journalist, and editor
- William Benjamin Carpenter (1813–1885), English physiologist and naturalist
- William Boyd Carpenter (1841–1918), Church of England clergyman and bishop of Ripon
- William Hookham Carpenter (1792–1866), Keeper at British Museum
- William Henry Carpenter (philologist) (1853–1936), American philologist
- William H. Carpenter (1821-1885) (1821–1885), U.S. Consul to Foochow, China, during the American Civil War years
- William Marbury Carpenter (1811–1848), American physician and naturalist
- William L. Carpenter (1844–1898),U.S. Army officer, naturalist and geologist
- William Randolph Carpenter (1894–1956), US Congressman
- William T. Carpenter, psychiatrist
- William Thomas Carpenter (1854–1933), cowman and author
- Bill Carpenter (William S. Carpenter, Jr., born 1937), American football player and Army officer
- William Carpenter of Rehoboth (born 1605), co-founder of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, see Rehoboth Carpenter family
- William J. Carpenter (1827–1921), Old West outdoorsman
- William the Carpenter, French nobleman
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“No hand has been allowed to touch
The rose I hide,
Though eyes have looked upon it and desired it.”
—Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.
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“In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)