William S. Laughlin (August 26, 1919 – April 6, 2001) was an American anthropologist who carried on research and wrote about aboriginal peoples in the Aleutians and Greenland.
Frohlich, Bruno; Harper, Albert B. and Gilberg, Rolf. (ed) To the Aleutians and beyond : the anthropology of William S. Laughlin, Copenhagen : Dept. of Ethnography, the National Museum of Denmark, 2002. 382 p. : ill., maps ; 30cm. ISBN 87-89384-85-7
Gilberg, R., Jørgensen, J. Balslev & Laughlin, William S. Anthropometrical and skinfold thickness measurements on the Polar Eskimos, Thule District, North Greenland Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1975. 22, [1] p. : ill. ; 29 cm. ISBN 87-421-0103-4
Laughlin, William S. Aleuts, survivors of the Bering Land Bridge Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, c1980. vii, 151 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN 0-03-081269-0 (paperback)
Laughlin, William S & Harper, Albert B. (ed); The First Americans : origins, affinities, and adaptations New York : G. Fischer, 1979. xi, 340 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. ISBN 0-89574-103-2