William Worthington Jordan

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William Worthington Jordan (1849–1886) was a hunter, trader, and writer in Southern Africa. Born in Wynberg, Cape Colony, he was of mixed race. He traded and hunted in areas now part of Botswana and Namibia. In 1880 he opened a trading post in southern Angola. He bought a large tract of land from the Ovambo people and gave some of it to Boer settlers, who in 1885 established the short-lived republic of Upingtonia. The republic did not survive his death in 1886.

Jordan published writings for the Cape Quarterly Review, including Journal of the Trek Boers to Mossamedes (1881) and From Damaraland to the Nhemba Country: Extract from the Diary of W. W. Jordan (1883).