William Temple may refer to:
- William Temple (logician) (1555–1627), English Ramist logician and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
- Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628–1699), British politician, employer of Jonathan Swift
- William Johnson Temple (1739–1796) English cleric and essayist, a correspondent of James Boswell
- William Temple (governor) (1814–1863), American merchant and Governor of Delaware
- William Temple (bishop) (1881–1944), Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Canterbury
- William Temple (VC) (1833–1919), recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William Chase Temple (1862–1917), coal and lumber baron, and owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates
- William F. Temple (1914–1989), British science fiction writer
- William Horace Temple (1899–1988), temperance crusader, businessman, CCF member of the Ontario Legislature, 1948–1951
Famous quotes containing the word temple:
“The same indignation that is said to have cleared the temple once will clear it again. The question is not about the weapon, but the spirit in which you use it. No man has appeared in America, as yet, who loved his fellow-man so well, and treated him so tenderly. He lived for him. He took up his life and he laid it down for him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)