William Everett (October 10, 1839 – February 16, 1910) was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States.

He was the son of Charlotte Gray Brooks and orator, Massachusetts governor and U.S. Secretary of State Edward Everett, who spoke at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, before President Abraham Lincoln's address on November 19, 1863.

He tutored at Harvard University from 1870 to 1873, then was promoted to assistant professor of Latin, a position he held till 1877.

Everett left Adams Academy in 1893 and was elected to the Fifty-third United States Congress as a Democrat representing Massachusetts's seventh district.

He died on February 16, 1910, and was interred with his parents in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.