William Shipley (disambiguation)

William Shipley was an English drawing master and social reformer.

William Shipley may also refer to:
 * Wil Shipley, Macintosh software developer
 * William Shipley (linguist), American linguist of the Maidu language
 * William Davies Shipley, Anglican Dean of St Asaph, prosecuted for seditious libel
 * William Hetherington Shipley, 19th-century painter, decorator and early pioneer in ballooning and parachuting