William Foster Stawell
 Sir William Foster Stawell KCMG (27 June 1815 – 12 March 1889) was a British colonial statesman and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria Australia. Stawell was the first Attorney-General of Victoria serving from 1851 to 1856 as an appointed official sitting in the Victorian Legislative Council and from 1856 until 1857 as an elected politician representing Melbourne.