William Pilch (18 June 1820 – 11 January 1882) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club, the Players, teams calling themselves "England" and other teams in a professional cricket career that extended from 1840 to 1857. He was a member of a famous cricketing family: his father was Nathaniel Pilch, and the great Fuller Pilch and an older William Pilch were his uncles. He was born at Brinton, Norfolk and died at Canterbury, Kent.