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

Others

• Abraham Shakespeare ( 1966–2009), American lottery winner and murder victim
• Clive Shakespeare (1949–2012), English-born Australian pop guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• Craig Shakespeare (1963–2024), English 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 ( 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, 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
• Thomas Mitchell Shakespeare (1873–1938), Australian politician and newspaperman
• Tom Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet (born 1966), geneticist and sociologist
• William Shakespeare (American football) (1912–1975), American football player
• William Shakespeare (Australian singer) (1948–2010), stage name of John Cave (also known as John Cabe or Billy Shake)
• William Shakespeare (tenor) (1849–1931), English singer, 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)