Sir William Moir Calder FBA FSAS (2 July 1881 – 17 August 1960) was a Scottish archaeologist, epigraphist, classicist, and academic.

For four years from 1908 to 1912, he was then the Hulme Research Student at Brasenose College, Oxford,[6] and travelled to Paris, Berlin, Rome, Greece and Turkey; he extensively explored Lycaonia, Phrygia and Galatia where he collected a range of materials for future study, worked with the archaeologists Sir William Mitchell Ramsay and Gertrude Bell, and developed an interest in the Phrygian language and the early spread of Christianity in those regions.

[2] In 1923, he and Buckler co-edited Anatolian Studies Presented to Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (published by Manchester University Press).

[6] and during 1924–25, they carried out archaeological excavations in Asia Minor which lead to the publication of Monumenta Asiæ Minoris Antiqua (MAMA).

In the meantime, Calder had been appointed Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh in 1930 and it was only after his retirement in 1951 that he was able to finish the MAMA and return to Turkey for two further trips.