Admiral Sir William Eric Campbell Tait KCB MVO (12 August 1886 – 17 July 1946) was a senior British naval officer, courtier and the fifth Governor of Southern Rhodesia after his naval retirement in 1944, serving from 1945 to 1946. He commanded various cruisers between 1928 and 1937. He became Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic in 1942.