Shakespeare (surname)
# 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
