William James Niall Rudd (23 June 1927 – 5 October 2015) was an Irish-born British classical scholar.
In 1968 he returned to England and taught for five years as a professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool.
[3] After retirement Rudd returned to Liverpool and was appointed an Honorary Research Fellow there.
Trinity College Dublin awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1998 (DLitt).
Rudd died of Melanoma after a long illness (Alzheimer's) on 5 October 2015 at St. John's Hospice on the Wirral.