William Franklin Strowd (December 7, 1832 – December 12, 1911) was an American farmer and Confederate American Civil War veteran who served two terms as a Populist U.S.

Strowd was born near Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1832 and attended local schools.

A farmer, he was a private in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.

Strowd was a member of the North Carolina Constitution Convention of 1875.

He did not seek renomination in 1898, and died in 1911 in Chapel Hill, where he is buried.