William Gibb Clarke (3 March 1878 – 1949) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a winger.

Records show that his grandfather Duncan Clark worked as a wood cutter and married a local woman named Cecilia Hutton, with their son Alexander being sent back to Scotland to boarding school.

[5][6] He did not break into the first team there and was registered to non-League sides Arthurlie and East Stirlingshire between 1898 and 1900 while Third Lanark continued to hold his league registration.

[7] Clarke attracted interest of a Southern Football League side in 1899 but ultimately signed for East Stirlingshire instead.

[15] Following the war he moved to Tunbridge Wells in Kent and worked as an upholsterer, continuing the trade he had learned in Glasgow before his professional football career.