William Shaw

William Shaw may refer to:

Sports

 * Billy Shaw (born 1938), American college and professional football player
 * Billy Shaw (Australian footballer) (1872–1938), Australian rules footballer for St Kilda and Melbourne
 * Bill Shaw (footballer, born 1886) (1886–?), Scottish footballer who played for Kilmarnock, Bristol Rovers and Dumbarton Harp
 * Bill Shaw (Australian footballer) (1915–1994), Australian rules footballer for Footscray
 * William Shaw (cricketer) (1827–1890), English cricketer
 * William Shaw (footballer) (1897–?), English footballer
 * William Shaw (born 1902–?), English footballer for Barcelona and Northampton Town

Politicians

 * William Shaw (Glasgow politician) (died 1937), Scottish trade unionist and Labour Party councilor
 * William Shaw (Illinois politician) (1937–2008), American politician
 * William Shaw (Irish politician) (1823–1895), Irish Protestant nationalist politician and leader of the Home Rule League
 * William Shaw (New Brunswick politician) (1839–1922), farmer, baker and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada
 * William Shaw (Oregon politician), member of the Oregon Territorial Legislature, 1850
 * William Shaw (Quebec politician) (1932–2018), Canadian politician and Member of the National Assembly of Quebec, 1976–1981
 * William McNairn Shaw (1822–1868), Ontario lawyer and political figure
 * William Rawson Shaw (1860–1932), British politician, MP for Halifax, 1893–1897
 * William T. Shaw (1879–1965), British Member of Parliament for Forfar, 1918–1922 and 1931–1945

Others

 * Bill Shaw, southern gospel tenor with The Blackwood Brothers
 * Bill Kennedy Shaw (1901–1979), British desert explorer, botanist, archaeologist and founding member of the Long Range Desert Group
 * William Shaw, Canadian inventor and cofounder of IMAX Corporation
 * William Shaw (actor) in The Choppers
 * William Shaw (agricultural writer) (1797–1853), writer, editor and translator who founded the Farmers Club in 1842
 * William Shaw (businessman), president and chief operating officer of Marriott International Inc
 * William Shaw (engineer) (1830–1896), Irish-born Australian engineer
 * William Shaw (Gaelic scholar) (1749–1831), author of A Galic and English dictionary: Containing all the words in the Scotch and Irish
 * William Shaw (laboratory owner), founder of the Great Plains Laboratory, which sells nonstandard laboratory tests
 * William Shaw (mathematician) (born 1958), British mathematician
 * William Shaw (minister), 18th century British Christian clergyman who founded Barton, Maryland in the United States in 1794
 * William Shaw (philosopher) (born 1948), chair of the Philosophy department in San José State University
 * William Shaw (writer), British journalist and writer
 * William Shaw (yacht designer) (1926–2006), American yacht designer
 * William Arthur Shaw (1865–1943), English historian
 * William Fletcher Shaw (1878–1961), English obstetric physician and gynaecologist
 * William Hamilton Shaw (1922–1950), United States Navy officer
 * William J. Shaw (preacher) (born 1926), American preacher, see National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
 * William James Shaw (1877–1939), American entrepreneur and philanthropist in the Philippines
 * William Smith Shaw (1778–1826), American librarian