William Laird was a Scottish shipbuilder and developer who was responsible for what later became the Cammell Laird shipyard, and for starting the substantial development of its adjoining town, Birkenhead, on the Wirral in England.
- Occupation
- engineer, shipbuilder
- Citizenship
- Scotland
- Born
- February 15, 1780
- Died
- October 27, 1841
