Shakespeare (surname) explained
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), 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 (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
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