William Johnston (24 August 1867 – 14 September 1947) was a Scottish-born New Zealand cricketer. He played 20 first-class matches for Otago between the 1889–90 season and 1902–03.William Johnston, CricInfo. Retrieved 15 May 2016.Johnston, Mr W, Obituaries in 1948, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1949. (Available online at CricInfo. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
Johnston was born at Edinburgh in Scotland in 1867. After migrating to New Zealand he worked as a caretaker.McCarron, Tony (2010). New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 74. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He made his representative debut for Otago in a December 1889 match against Auckland at the Caledonian Ground in Dunedin, scoring a total of six runs on debut. He played regularly in the provincial side until the 1902–03 season, making a total of 20 appearances in first-class matches in which he scored 434 runs with a highest score of 48, made against Canterbury in December 1898.William Johnston, CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
Johnston died at Dunedin in 1947 at the age of 80. An obituary was published in the 1949 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
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