William Elgein Wickenden (December 24, 1882 – September 1, 1947) was the third president of Case School of Applied Science, now Case Western Reserve University. Wickenden was born in Toledo, Ohio on December 24, 1882. He graduated from Denison University in 1904 and married Marion Lamb, also a Denison graduate, in Toledo on Sept 2, 1908. Wickenden died of a heart attack at Monadnock Community Hospital on September 1, 1947 while on vacation at Peterborough, New Hampshire.