William Stanford Reid (13 September 1913 – 28 December 1996), usually cited as W. Stanford Reid, was a professor of history at McGill University and the University of Guelph and a Presbyterian Church in Canada minister.
He held a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Pennsylvania (1941).
He also had a divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary, studying under the Presbyterian scholar J. Gresham Machen.
His grandparents were some of the first Scottish settlers in the Eastern Townships of Quebec arriving in the late 1820s.
His grandparents were William Reid and Jean Gould and Andrew Dunn and Elisabeth Oliver.