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:
“Thou shalt make thy house
The temple of a nation’s vows.
Spirits of a higher strain
Who sought thee once shall seek again.
I detected many a god
Forth already on the road,
Ancestors of beauty come
In thy breast to make a home.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)