William Christopher Hayes (March 21, 1903 – July 10, 1963) was an American Egyptologist.

[1] His main fields of study were history of Egyptian art and translation/interpretation of texts.

[2] His father William C. Hayes Sr. was a British national and his mother Helen Hawthorne Maule was from Philadelphia and both parents were passionate about horses.

[3] Bill initially went to William Penn Charter School (then known as Penn Charter) and then went to the prep school st george's for 4 years, where he won the "George Gordon King medal" in advanced greek.

[3] A pupil of Sir Alan Gardiner, Hayes attended the Princeton University(in 1920) where he graduated in 1935 with a dissertation on the royal sarcophagi of the 18th Dynasty.