William Mozart McVey (July 12, 1905 – May 30, 1995) was an American sculptor, animalier and teacher.

He left to attend Rice University, where he played football under Coach John Heisman in 1924 while studying illustration.

He returned to art school in Cleveland but did not study sculpture there because "his personality (was) incompatible with that of Herman Matzen, who headed the department."

In 1929, a patron financed a "shoe-string' budgeted trip to Paris, where he studied with Despiau and Gimond[1] as well as earning a meager living as one of three American guides at the Louvre Museum.

[2] Following his discharge from the army McVey, then married to "radical" ceramicist Leza McVey, moved to Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he taught sculpture (1947–1954) and she studied with Maija Grotell.