Major-General William Wilberforce Harris Greathed CB (21 December 1826 – 29 December 1878) was a British senior officer in the Bengal Engineers. He was born in Paris, the youngest of five sons of Edward Greathed and Mary Elizabeth Glyn of Uddens House, Wimborne, Dorset. One of his brothers was General Sir Edward Harris Greathed. He entered the Addiscombe military college of the East India Company in February 1843, and received a commission on 9 December 1844.