Daniel Barclay Williams (November 22, 1861 – July 27, 1895) was an American educator who worked at the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute, making him the first Black teacher of classics in the state.

Daniel Barclay Williams was born on November 22, 1861, to a mother who the African American National Biography says was "apparently" single,[1] in Richmond, Virginia.

[2] While there, he was helped by Mary Elizabeth Knowles, the school's principal until 1876, and Ralza Morse Manly, who succeeded her, and earned a gold medal for "excellence in scholarship and conduct".

Williams left that post to teach from March to June 1885 in Richmond at the Moore Street Industrial School.

He was further published in The Industrial Herald and Richmond Planet and wrote several other books; he was also a devout Christian practicing biblical literalism.

[1] These publications made Williams the first faculty member of the Virginia Institute to have written and published a book.