William Trotter may refer to: Bill Trotter (William Felix Trotter, 1908–1984), major league baseball pitcher William Monroe Trotter (1872–1934), American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William R. Trotter (1943–2018), American author and historian William T. Trotter, American mathematician William Trotter (cabinet-maker) (1772–1833), Scottish furniture maker and Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1825–27 See also Willie Trotter (born 1959), English post-punk musician