William Shakespeare (disambiguation) explained

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor.

William Shakespeare may also refer to:

People

• William Shakespeare (tenor) (1849–1931), English tenor singer, pedagogue, and composer
• William Shakespeare (inventor) (1869–1950), inventor of the level-winding fishing reel
• William Shakespear (explorer) (1878–1915), explorer of the Arabian Peninsula
• William Harold Nelson Shakespeare (1893–1976), British aviator and sportsman
• William Shakespeare (American football) (1912–1974), American football player
• William Geoffrey Shakespeare (1927–1996), 2nd Baronet Shakespeare of Lakenham, a general practitioner (physician)
• William "Bill" Shakespeare (1939–2021), first man to receive the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
• William Shakespeare (singer) (1948–2010), stage name of Australian singer John Stanley Cave

Other uses

• William Shakespeare (essay), an 1864 book-length essay by Victor Hugo
• Will Shakespeare (TV series), an ITC Entertainment TV series about the playwright
• Statue of William Shakespeare (New York City), an 1870 statue by John Quincy Adams Ward
• The William Shakespeare, a British Railways train during the 1951 Festival of Britain

See also

• Shakespeare (surname)
• Shakespeare (disambiguation)
• William Shakespeare Burton (1824–1916), Victorian painter