William Harrison Boring (February 26, 1841 – December 1, 1932) was an American Union soldier who fought in the American Civil War, and who was a member of the distinguished battalion in the 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment that helped lead the fall of Vicksburg in 1863.
Boring would later come to be known as a pioneer after settling the town of Boring, Oregon in 1874, which took its namesake after him.