Bill Fogarty

William Francis "Bill" Fogarty (1 June 1922 – 13 July 2001) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Kingsville, and served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1940 to 1946 as a signalman.

From 1946 to 1954 he was a metalworker, subsequently working as an official in the Cold Storage and Meat Preserving Employees' Union from 1954 to 1972; he was federal secretary from 1965 to 1973.

On 9 June 1945 he married Olive Mildred McIntosh; they had two children.

In 1973 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Sunshine, where he became the parliamentary spokesman on agriculture until 1982.