William Chatterton Dix (14 June 1837 – 9 September 1898) was an English writer of hymns and carols. He was born in Bristol, England, the son of John Dix, a Bristol surgeon, who wrote The Life of Chatterton the poet, a book of Pen Pictures of Popular Engish Preachers and other works. His father gave him his middle name in honour of Thomas Chatterton, a poet about whom he had written a biography.