William Gairdner (11 November 1793 – 28 April 1867) was a Scottish physician and writer.
Gairdner was born at Mount Charles, Ayrshire on 11 November 1793.
He studied in London and worked as physician to the Earl of Bristol.
He lived on Bolton Street, London and in 1823 was admitted a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians.
It was an exposition of the main clinical features of gout and advocated treatment such as bleeding, moderate purgation, and the administration of colchicum.