William James Rogers OBE (10 January 1887 – 6 July 1971)[1] was a New Zealand politician.

He was a long-serving Mayor of Wanganui, and a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 1940 until its abolition in 1950.

[1] Rogers' daughter, Ida, married electrical engineer Philip Blakeley in 1938.

[3] He contested the 1925, 1928, and 1931 elections in the Wanganui electorate for the Labour Party, but lost to Bill Veitch, the incumbent.

[7] Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1954 New Year Honours,[8] Rogers died in 1971.