William Aldis Wright (1 August 1831 – 19 May 1914) was an English writer and classical scholar.

He was best known for founding the The Cambridge Shakespeare alongside writer William George Clark.

He was educated at Beccles Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1858.

He opposed the allegations by Simonides that the Codex Sinaiticus discovered by Constantin von Tischendorf was produced around 1840.

[4] He donated a large collection of engravings by his uncle Thomas Higham to the British Museum in 1902.