William Whyte may refer to: Sir William Whyte (banker) (died 1945), Scottish banker William Whyte (baseball) (1860–1911), American baseball player William Whyte (footballer), Scottish footballer William Whyte (historian) (born 1975), architectural and social historian William Whyte (railway manager) (1843–1914), Canadian Pacific Railway Company executive William Whyte (runner) (1903–1964), Australian athlete William Foote Whyte (1914–2000), sociologist William H. Whyte (1917–1999), sociologist and author of The Organization Man William Pinkney Whyte (1824–1908), politician from the State of Maryland, United States Sir William Whyte (solicitor) (died 1950), British solicitor Sir William Marcus Charles Beresford Whyte (1863–1932), British naval officer Sir (William Erskine) Hamilton Whyte (1927–1990), British diplomat Bill Whyte, professor of social work at the University of Edinburgh