William Beare (20 April 1900, Ireland – 1963, Bristol, England) was a British Latinist and president of the Classical Association for the academic year 1962–1963.
After graduating from Trinity College Dublin, William Beare became a lecturer at the University of Manchester.
[1] On 1 August 1934, William Beare married Sylvia Joan Gibson (1910–1996) in St. Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales.
[2] For the academic year 1955–1956 he was in the United States as the Charles Norton Lecturer of the Archaeological Institute of America.
He was eulogized by G. T. W. Hooker as "a modest, sober, humane, and forthright scholar, ποθεινὸς τοῖς φίλοις.