Dr William Bird (MBE) is a general practitioner in Oxfordshire, England. He has set up schemes to encourage people in the United Kingdom to exercise in order to promote good health, and he was awarded an MBE for his contributions to health and physical activity in the Queen's New Year Honours 2010.
Bird helped to set up a health forecasting unit at the Met Office where he was clinical director for five years. The forecasts help the public and health professionals plan for of weather-related illness.
Bird set up the first Green Gym at Sonning Common, Oxfordshire in 1998 to promote physical activity and well-being in the participants who volunteer to work on environmental or conservation projects. Working with BTCV the scheme now has about 100 centres in the UK and one in Australia.
Bird worked with the Countryside Agency and the British Heart Foundation to set up Walking for Health or WfH (previously called Walking the Way to Health Initiative). The aim is to have a nationwide network.