| William Yurko | |
| Riding: | Edmonton East |
| Parliament: | Canadian |
| Term Start: | May 22, 1979 |
| Term End: | September 3, 1984 |
| Predecessor: | William Skoreyko |
| Successor: | William Lesick |
| Office1: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Edmonton-Gold Bar Strathcona East (1969–1971) |
| Term Start1: | February 10, 1969 |
| Term End1: | January 1, 1979 |
| Predecessor1: | Ernest Manning |
| Successor1: | Al Hiebert |
| Birth Name: | William John Yurko |
| Birth Date: | 11 February 1926 |
| Birth Place: | Hairy Hill, Alberta, Canada |
| Death Place: | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Party: | Progressive Conservative |
| Otherparty: | Independent (1982-1984) |
| Occupation: | Chemical engineer |
| Alma Mater: | University of Alberta |
William "Vasile" Yurko (February 11, 1926 – February 2, 2010) was a Canadian politician, and member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the House of Commons of Canada.
Yurko was born in 1926 in Hairy Hill, Alberta of Romanian and Ukrainian descent. He served two years in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II,[1] then graduated with distinction as a chemical engineer from the University of Alberta. He worked for 17 years (six of them within the Atomic Energy of Canada) before 1969, when he entered politics.
He was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta in the Strathcona East riding by-election on February 10, 1969, following the resignation of Premier Ernest Manning.
He was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Edmonton Gold Bar riding in 1971 and re-elected in 1975.
In 1979 he was elected to the House of Commons for the Edmonton East riding as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and he held the seat until 1984, when he ran as an Independent for the same riding, but lost to William Lesick.