Shakespeare (disambiguation)

William Shakespeare was a playwright.

Shakespeare may also refer to:

• Shakespeare, New Mexico, United States
• Shakespeare, Ontario, Canada
• 2985 Shakespeare, an asteroid
• Shakespeare (crater), a crater on Mercury
• Shakespeare (programming language)
• HMS Shakespeare, two ships of the Royal Navy
• Shakespeare, a meerkat on Meerkat Manor
• "Shakespeare", a song by Akala
• Shakespeare Fishing Tackle

People with the surname

• John Shakespeare (c. 1531 – 1601) , father of William Shakespeare.
• Susanna Shakespeare (c. 1583 – 1649), daughter of William Shakespeare.
• Judith Shakespeare (c. 1585 – c. 1662), daughter of William Shakespeare.
• Hamnet Shakespeare (c. 1585 – c. 1596), son of William Shakespeare.
• Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare) (c. 1555 - c. 1623) , wife of william Shakespeare.
• Abraham Shakespeare (c. 1966 – 2009), American lottery winner and apparent murder victim
• Craig Shakespeare (born 1963), former association football player, assistant manager for Leicester City F.C.
• Frank Shakespeare (born 1925), American diplomat and media executive
• Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, 1st Baronet (1893–1980), British Liberal politician
• Joseph A. Shakspeare (1837–1896), mayor of New Orleans
• Nicholas Shakespeare (born 1957), British journalist and writer
• Noah Shakespeare (1839–1921), Canadian politician noted for his involvement in the anti-Chinese movement
• Percy Shakespeare (1906–1943), British artist
• Robbie Shakespeare (born 1953), Jamaican musician and producer, part of Sly and Robbie
• 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 (cricketer) (1883–1976), cricketer for Worcestershire in the interwar period
• William Shakespeare (singer) (born 1950), 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 Shakespear (explorer) (1878–1915), explorer of the Arabian Peninsula

See also

• Shakespeare and Company (disambiguation)
• Will Shakespeare (TV series), an ITC Entertainment tv series about the playwright
• The Plays of William Shakespeare, an eighteenth-century edition of the dramatic works of Shakespeare, edited by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens
• Shakespearian class