William Abernethy Ogilvie, MBE CM RCA (March 3, 1901 – August 28, 1989) was a Canadian painter and Official Second World War artist.

He worked briefly in New York as a commercial artist before returning to Toronto and joining Charles Comfort and Harold Ayres in a company which offered diverse skills, part advertising, part magazine illustration.

[2] After working at the Art Association of Montreal, Ogilvie joined the Canadian army in 1940 and was commissioned as the first Official War artist in 1942.

Attached to the 1st Canadian Division, he made the first significant art work in an active theatre of war, nearly always under fire.

His paintings of the ruined buildings at Caen in Normandy, the Falaise Gap, and refugees are memorable.