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 William Foote Whyte (June 27, 1914 – July 16, 2000) was an American sociology, sociologist chiefly known for his ethnography, ethnographic study in urban sociology, ''Street Corner Society''. A proponent of participant observation, he lived f ...

(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

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