William Scott

William Scott (1797–1848) was a British jockey. He was a brother of the horse trainer John Scott who frequently conditioned horses that he rode.

Based at his brother's Whitewall Stables in Malton, North Yorkshire, Scott won nineteen of the British Classic Races, including the St. Leger Stakes a record nine times of which four were in a row from 1838 through 1841.

He was already a jockey of some national renown by the early 1830s, being described as the "Chifney of the north".

He is not to be confused with William Harvey Scott (died 1885), trainer and cross-country jockey, notably earning second-place finishes in the 1843 and 1844 Grand National.

Scott died at his home at Highfield, Malton in 1848 having ridden almost to the time of his death. He is said to have declared on his deathbed that he "had never pulled a horse in his life, never gone to bed sober and never kissed a lass against her will".