Bill Dwyre (born April 7, 1944 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin) is a sportswriter and former newspaper sports editor. Notable for his long tenure as sports editor of the Los Angeles Times beginning in June 1981, he moved to the writing ranks full-time in June 2006. But for virtually his whole career he has worked both sides of the desk, as an editor and writer, and today writes several weekly columns for the Times.