William John Baxter (29 May 1919 – 23 March 1983)[1] was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

[2] The son of William John Thomas Baxter (1892-1963), and Margaret Josephine Baxter (1888-1972), née Nihill,[3] William John Baxter was born in Werribee, Victoria on 29 May 1919.

His brothers, Kenneth Matthew Patrick Baxter (1917-1959), and Bernard Patrick Baxter (1929-2012), both played with Carlton in the VFL.

He married Olive Lillian Sneezewell (1919-1983) on 23 November 1940.

This Australian rules football biography of a person born in 1919 is a stub.