Ambassador William Dodd Brewer (April 4, 1922 in Middletown, Connecticut – February 10, 2009 in Hingham, Massachusetts) was the American Ambassador to Mauritius from 1970 to 1973 and then Ambassador to the Sudan from 1973 to 1977. Brewer retired from the Foreign Service in 1978 and was appointed the Stuart Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College where he taught and also chaired the Department of World Affairs until 1986. When he retired, he first lived in Falmouth, Massachusetts before moving to Hingham.