W. A. Scott may refer to: Walter A. Scott (1876–1963), mayor of Jackson, Mississippi William A. Scott (psychologist) (1926–1991), American-born social psychologist William Alexander Scott (born 1940), politician in Bermuda William Alphonsus Scott (1871–1921), Irish Roman Catholic architectural historian William Amasa Scott (1862–1944), American economist William Anderson Scott (1813–1885), Presbyterian minister, author, and educator