William Childs may refer to:

William Childs (restaurateur), co-founder of Childs Restaurants William Macbride Childs (1869–1939), academic and historian William Harold Joseph Childs, British physicist and academic author Billy Childs (William Edward Childs, born 1957), musician William Childs (boxer), British boxer William Childs House, in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Riverside County, California

See also William Child (disambiguation) George William Childs (1829–1894), US publisher