William Bernard Raymond Lickorish (born 19 February 1938) is a mathematician.

Lickorish received his Ph.D from Cambridge in 1964; his thesis was written under the supervision of Christopher Zeeman.

[1] In 1991, Lickorish received the Senior Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society.

[2] Lickorish and Kenneth Millett won the 1991 Chauvenet Prize for their paper "The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links".

[3] Lickorish was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to knot theory and low-dimensional topology".