William Hallock Johnson (December 3, 1865 – November 29, 1963) was an American educator who served as president of the historically black Lincoln University of Pennsylvania from 1926 to 1936.

He had a liberalizing effect on the institution, presiding over the appointment of its first Black faculty member, and substantially reduced the university's debt.

Johnson attended Dr. Chapin's Collegiate School in New York and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1888 from Princeton University, where he served on the board of the Princetonian (1884–1885) and as an editor of Nassau Literary Magazine (1887).

[1][2][3] Johnson was appointed president by Lincoln's board of trustees on November 6, 1926, beginning his decade of service in the office on December 1, 1926.

Amid crumbling finances and a deteriorating physical plant, Johnson also faced demands from Black alumni for a greater say in the running of the institution.

Johnson also forced the retirement of four conservative long-time faculty members who had refused to support his administration's shift from racial paternalism.