William Vorrath

William Nelson Vorrath (21 October 1904 – 7 June 1934) was a New Zealand sportsman. Vorrath played six first-class cricket matches for Otago between the 1927–28 and 1929–30 seasons and represented Otago at rugby league.

Vorrath was born at Dunedin in 1904 into a sporting family. His father had played cricket in Australia, one of his brothers was a jockey and another represented the Otago Rugby Football Union, whilst his sister played lawn tennis. William played club cricket for the Albion Cricket Club in Dunedin, captaining the club for four seasons. He made his debut against Canterbury in December 1927, opening the batting and making scores of 11 and five. A series of low scores resulted in him dropping down the batting order and it was not until the side's final Plunket Shield match of the season that Vorrath made a significant score, making 103 not out batting at number eight against Wellington towards the end of January, an innings which was called "memorable" in an obituary. He played in trials matches for the New Zealand national team and narrowly missed out on selection for the 1926–27 tour of Great Britain. He died at Dunedin Hospital after a week spent as an in-patient. He was aged 29.