William Alexander Gambling (11 October 1926 – 9 January 2021) was a British electrical engineer.
[1] From 1950 to 1955, he was lecturer in electric power engineering at the University of Liverpool.
He taught at the University of Southampton and was dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences from 1972 to 1975.
In 1979, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering[2][3] He was BT professor of optical communications from 1980 to 1995 and founder and director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre from 1989 to 1995.
He was Royal Society Kan Tong Po visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong from 1996 to 2001.