William “Bill” Dougherty (born 1988) is an American composer. He is the recipient of the 2021 Luciano Berio Rome Prize in Music Composition from the American Academy in Rome,[1] the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,[2] a Marshall Scholarship from the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission,[3] and residencies at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation,[4] Cité Internationale des Arts, the Copland House,[5] and the Internationalen Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (IGNM) Valais Residency at Schloss Leuk.[6]