Sir William Reid FRSE FIME DSc DCL (20 June 1906–2 October 1985) was a 20th-century Scottish businessman and mining engineer.
He studied mining and metallurgy at the University of Edinburgh graduating with a BSc in 1929 and gaining a doctorate (PhD) in 1933.
His proposers were Robert McAdam, Sir Edmund Hirst, James Pickering Kendall, and Hugh Bryan Nisbet.
He died on 2 October 1985 is buried with his parents in Beath Cemetery in Cowdenbeath in Fife.
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