William Duane may refer to: William J. Duane (1780–1865), Irish-born American politician and lawyer from Pennsylvania William J. Duane (Jesuit) (1868–?), Jesuit priest and president of Fordham University William Duane (physicist) (1872–1935), American physicist William Duane (journalist) (1760–1835), Irish-American journalist and newspaper publisher See also William Duane Benton (born 1950), U.S. judge William Doane (disambiguation)