In Science, Engineering and Philosophy
- William Martin (naturalist) (1767–1810), English naturalist and palaeontologist
- William Martin (philosopher) (1772–1851), English inventor, eccentric, and philosopher
- William Charles Linnaeus Martin (1798–1864), English naturalist
- William Keble Martin (1877–1969), British botanist
- William A. Martin (1938–1981), American computer scientist
- William F. Martin (born 1957), professor of botany
- William Flynn Martin (born 1950), energy economist, educator, and international diplomat
- William Hamilton Martin (1931–1987), American cryptologist, defector to the Soviet Union
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