Shakespeare (surname)

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