William A. Goldie (December 15, 1873 – January 8, 1950) was a Canadian physician and university lecturer. He is best known for helping to establish the first full-time chair in medicine in the British Empire, the Sir John and Lady Eaton Professorship and Chair of Medicine, at the University of Toronto.

Born in Ayr, Ontario to a family of millers, Goldie was the grandson of John Goldie, a Scottish-born botanist. He attended the Galt Collegiate Institute, and subsequently studied medicine at the University of Toronto.^[1]

Following his graduation from the University of Toronto in 1896, Goldie taught in the university's pathology and bacteriology departments, later transferring to the department of medicine.^[2] Goldie also took up positions as a clinician at the Toronto General Hospital and chief of the infection division at the Hospital for Sick Children. With the publication of the Flexner Report in 1910, he became an enthusiastic advocate for its recommendation that medical schools appoint full-time clinical professors. He convinced Sir Robert Falconer, President of the University of Toronto, and Sir Joseph Flavell, chairman of the Board of Directors of Toronto General Hospital, of the need for such an appointment in the Faculty of Medicine, and set about to secure the required funding.