Salant William (Solomon Gabriel Salant) (1870, Courland Province — 1943) — chemist.

William Salant emigrated to the United States in 1884. From 1908 to 1918 he served as the first head of the pharmacological laboratory at the Bureau of Chemistry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. From 1920 to 1929 he was Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Georgia.

He was the author of numerous publications in the fields of microbiology, pharmacology, and pathology.