William Dakins (died 1607) was an English academic and clergyman, Gresham Professor of Divinity and one of the translators of the King James Bible.
He is conjectured (Thompson Cooper in the Dictionary of National Biography) to have been the son of William Dakins, M.A., vicar of Ashwell, Hertfordshire.
He was educated at Westminster School, whence he was elected in 1586 to a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A.
He became Greek lecturer of his college (an annual office) on 2 October 1602, and vicar of Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, in 1603.
On the resignation of Hugo Gray he was chosen to succeed him as professor of divinity in Gresham College, London, on 14 July 1604.