Shakespeare (surname)

For other uses, see Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is an English family name most commonly associated with William Shakespeare (1564–1616), an English playwright and poet. Other notable people with the surname include:

Related to the playwright

• Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare) (c. 1555–c. 1623), his wife
• Richard Shakespeare (1490–c. 1561), his paternal grandfather
• John Shakespeare (c. 1531–1601), his father
• Mary Shakespeare (c. 1537–1608), his mother
• Gilbert Shakespeare (1566–c. 1612), his brother
• Joan Shakespeare (1569–1646), his sister
• Edmund Shakespeare (1580–1607), his youngest brother and an actor
• Susanna Shakespeare (c. 1583–1649), his daughter
• Judith Shakespeare (c. 1585–c. 1662), his daughter
• Hamnet Shakespeare (c. 1585–c. 1596), his son

Others

• Abraham Shakespeare (c. 1966–2009), American lottery winner and murder victim
• Clive Shakespeare (1949–2012), English-born Australian pop guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• Craig Shakespeare (born 1963), former association football player and manager
• Frank Shakespeare (1925–2022), American diplomat and media executive
• Frank Shakespeare (rower) (born 1930), American rower
• Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, 1st Baronet (1893–1980), British Liberal politician
• James Shakespeare (c. 1840–1912), South Australian organist
• Joseph A. Shakspeare (1837–1896), mayor of New Orleans
• Nicholas Shakespeare (born 1957), British novelist and biographer
• Noah Shakespeare (1839–1921), Canadian politician noted for his involvement in the anti-Chinese movement
• Olivia Shakespear (1863–1938), British novelist and playwright
• Percy Shakespeare (1906–1943), British painter
• Robbie Shakespeare (1953–2021), Jamaican musician and producer, part of Sly and Robbie
• Stanley Shakespeare (1963–2005), American football player
• Stephan Shakespeare (born 1957), founder of market research company YouGov and of 18 Doughty Street
• Tom Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet (born 1966), geneticist and sociologist
• William Shakespeare (American football) (1912–1975), American football player
• William Shakespeare (singer) (1948–2010), stage name of Australian singer John Cave (also known as John Cabe or Billy Shake)
• William Shakespeare (tenor) (1849–1931), English tenor, pedagogue, and composer
• William Geoffrey Shakespeare (1927–1996), 2nd Baronet Shakespeare of Lakenham, general practitioner in Aylesbury
• William Harold Nelson Shakespeare (1883–1976), cricketer for Worcestershire in the interwar period

See also

• Shakespear (disambiguation)