William Henry Carpenter (1853–1936) was an American philologist, and provost for Columbia University.

William Henry Carpenter was born in Utica, New York on July 15, 1853.

[1] He was educated at Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Hamilton College, Leipzig, and Freiburg.

He then became instructor in rhetoric and lecturer on North European literature at Cornell in 1883.

[1] William Henry Carpenter died in Downingtown, Pennsylvania on November 25, 1936.