William Roughead (19 September 1905 – 22 April 1975) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
[5] He captained Scotland against Wales in February 1931, and it was noted that the game for the Scots was played 'under the shadow of a great loss' as former SRU President James Aikman Smith had just died.
He compiled an Anthology of prose and verse by Hilaire Belloc.
[7] His father William Roughead (1870-1952) was a lawyer and amateur criminologist.
His brother Francis More Roughead also played for Edinburgh Academicals.