| William Cory | |
| Birth Name: | William Johnson |
| Birth Date: | 9 January 1823 |
| Birth Place: | Great Torrington |
| Death Place: | Hampstead |
| Occupation: | Teacher |
| Language: | English |
| Nationality: | British |
| Education: | Eton |
| Alma Mater: | King's College, Cambridge |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Notableworks: | Ionica |
William Johnson Cory (9 January 1823 – 11 June 1892), born William Johnson, was an English educator and poet. He was dismissed from his post at Eton for encouraging a culture of intimacy, possibly non-sexual, between teachers and pupils. He is widely known for his English version of the elegy Heraclitus by Callimachus.
He was born at Great Torrington in Devon, and educated at Eton, where he was afterwards a renowned master, nicknamed "Tute" (short for "tutor") by his pupils. After Eton, where he won the Newcastle Scholarship,[1] he studied at King's College, Cambridge, where he won the Chancellor's Medal for an English poem on Plato in 1843, and the Craven Scholarship in 1844.