Dr William Wallace FRSE FCS (1832–1888) was a 19th-century Scottish chemist who served as Glasgow's first Public analyst.
He wrote on various public health issues including sugar refining, gas manufacture and sewage disposal.
He then began lecturing in chemistry at the Glasgow College of Science and Arts.
In 1864 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Alexander Bryson.
He lived at 8 Granby Terrace in the Hillhead district and also had a country house named "The Cromlech" at Ardenadam.