| William H. Fishman | |
| Birth Date: | 2 March 1914 |
| Birth Place: | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Death Place: | La Jolla, California, United States |
| Fields: | Biochemistry, oncology |
| Workplaces: | University of Edinburgh, Weill Cornell Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Tufts University |
| Education: | Minnedosa Collegiate (1931), University of Saskatchewan (BSc, 1935), University of Toronto (PhD, 1939) |
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William Harold Fishman (March 2, 1914 – January 25, 2001) was a Canadian-American cancer researcher who taught at Tufts University from 1948 until his retirement in 1975.[1] In 1976, with a $180,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute, he co-founded the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation (since renamed the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute) with his wife, Lillian.[2] [3] [4] He was also the founding editor-in-chief of Tumor Biology, serving in this role from 1980 to 1983.[5]