Sir William Alexander, 3rd Baronet

Sir William John Alexander, 3rd Baronet QC (1 April 1797 – 31 March 1873) was a British lawyer.

He was the elder son of Sir Robert Alexander, 2nd Baronet and his wife Elisa Wallis, daughter of John Wallis. In 1859, he succeeded his father as baronet. and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts and later proceeded Master of Arts.

Alexander was nominated a Queen's Counsel in 1844 and became a bencher of the Middle Temple in the same year. He was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1825.

Alexander died unmarried and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother John.