William Leveson (died 1621)

William Leveson (died 1621) was a member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers and of the Company of Merchant Adventurers. Together with Thomas Savage, he was one of the trustees used by the original shareholders of the Globe Theatre in the allocation of their shares in 1599. Later, Leveson was involved in the suppression of the Essex rebellion on 8 February 1601. In 1613 he was sued by the Virginia Company.

William Leveson was a younger son of Thomas Leveson (1532–1576), second son of the London mercer Nicholas Leveson (d.1539) by Denise or Dionyse Bodley (d.1561), youngest daughter of Thomas Bodley (d.1493) and Joan Leche (d. March 1530). His mother was Ursula Gresham (1534–1574), one of the twelve children of Sir John Gresham, Lord Mayor of London.

Leveson had an elder brother, Sir John Leveson, who played a key role in the suppression of the rebellion of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, on 8 February 1601.

Leveson traded for twenty years as a merchant. He was a member of the Mercers' Company, the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London, and the Company of Merchants for the Discovery of Regions Unknown. Leveson experienced difficulty in being admitted to the Merchant Adventurers; in 1586 the Privy Council sent a letter to the Company urging Leveson's admission on the ground that he had been apprenticed to Robert Roe, one of the Company's members, and had committed no fault.