Wilhelm Dindorf (1802–1883) was a prolific German classical scholar based in Leipzig who, together with his brother Ludwig, edited an extraordinary range of Greek texts. Wilhelm produced editions of the Greek orators, historians, and poets for multiple publishers including the Oxford University Press and Teubner. His output was vast — he edited Aristophanes, Sophocles, Euripides, Demosthenes, Harpocration, and many others. Though some of his editions have been superseded, Dindorf's work was foundational for 19th-century classical scholarship and many of his texts remained in scholarly use well into the 20th century.

Dindorf's editions, produced in the mid-19th century, represent an important stage in the history of classical textual criticism — after the great manuscript discoveries of the early 1800s but before the systematic stemmatics of the late 19th century. His texts are generally reliable but reflect the editorial methods of their time: relatively sparing apparatus criticus, and editorial choices sometimes influenced more by taste than by strict manuscript analysis. Where more modern critical editions exist, those should generally be preferred, but for many minor authors and texts Dindorf's edition remains the most recent or the most accessible.