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