Shaw (name)
Shaw is most commonly a surname and rarely a given name. The name is of English and Scottish origin. In some cases the surname is an Americanization of a similar sounding Ashkenazic Jewish surname.[1]
In England and Scotland the name is a topographic name for someone who lived by a copse or thicket.[1] This name is derived from the Middle English s(c)hage, s(c)hawe, from the Old English sceaga meaning "dweller by the wood".[1][2] The name can also be a habitational name derived from places named after these words. The English surname was established in Ireland in the 17th century. In Scotland and Ireland the surname can also be an English form of several surnames derived from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach meaning "wolf".[1]
It is also a possible transliteration (Gwoyeu Romatzyh) of the Chinese surname Shao (邵).
People with the given name "Shaw"
- Shaw Clifton (born 1945), 18th General of The Salvation Army
People with the surname "Shaw"
- Aaron Shaw (piper), American bagpipe player
- Aaron Shaw (representative) (1811–1887), U.S. Representative from Illinois
- Adam Shaw, British business journalist
- Alfred Shaw (1842–1907), English cricketer
- Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919), American suffragette
- Artie Shaw (1910–2004), American bandleader
- Ashley Shaw (born 1991), English cricketer
- For people with the name Bernard Shaw, see Bernard Shaw
- Bill Kennedy Shaw (1901–1979), British army captain, explorer
- Bill Shaw (footballer) (born 1886), Scottish footballer
- Billy Shaw (born 1938), American football player
- For people with the name Bob or Robert Shaw, see Robert Shaw
- Brewster H. Shaw (born 1945), retired U.S. Air Force colonel and former NASA astronaut
- Brian Shaw (born 1966), former NBA basketball player
- Clay Shaw (1913–1974), charged by Jim Garrison with conspiracy to murder John F. Kennedy
- Cliff Shaw, computer programmer
- David Shaw (painter), (1952–1989), English artist
- David E. Shaw (born 1951), hedge fund manager
- Fiona Shaw (born 1958), Irish actress who plays Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films
- Frank L. Shaw (1887–1958), former mayor of Los Angeles, California
- Frederick H. Shaw (1864–1924), British Citizen who had a prominent role in the creation of the Spanish Institute of Provision, 1908
- Sir Frederick Shaw, 3rd Baronet from 1869, (1799–1876), Irish Conservative MP in the United Kingdom Parliament
- George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Irish playwright
- George Shaw (1751–1813), English botanist and zoologist
- George C. Shaw, US soldier decorated for gallantry in the Philippine-American War in 1903
- Graham Shaw (footballer born 1934) (1934–1998), a former Sheffield United footballer
- Henry Shaw (botanist) (1800–1889), St. Louis botanist and philanthropist
- Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818–1895), "Josh Billings," American humorist
- Herman Shaw (1892–1950), English geophysicist and museum director
- Irwin Shaw (1913–1984), American playwright, screen writer and author
- J. R. Shaw (born 1934), Canadian businessman
- Joe Shaw (footballer born 1928) (born 1928), a former Sheffield United footballer
- For people with the name John, see John Shaw
- For people with the name Jonathan, see Jonathan Shaw
- L. M. Shaw (1848–1932), American banker and politician, Secretary of the Treasury
- Lemuel Shaw (1781–1861), American jurist
- Leslie Shaw, (born 1989), Peruvian model and singer
- Lindsey Shaw (born 1989), co-star of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
- Martin Shaw (born 1945), English actor
- Marlena Shaw (born 1943), American singer
- Melville J. Shaw (1872–1927), Marine Corps Brevet Medal recipient
- Naman Shaw, Indian television actor
- Percy Shaw (1890–1976), British inventor of the cat's-eye reflector for roads
- For people with the name Peter or Pete Shaw, see Peter Shaw
- Quincy Adams Shaw (1825-1908), American investor and industrialist
- Reta Shaw (born 1912), American actress
- Richard G. Shaw (born 1943), first African American insurance commissioner for West Virginia
- Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912), British architect
- For people with the name Bob or Robert Shaw, see Robert Shaw
- Ronald Shaw (1920–1945), Royal Air Force Corporal during World War II
- Sam Shaw (1864–???), American baseball player
- Samantha Shaw (born 1957), American politician
- Sandie Shaw (born 1947), British singer
- Sebastian Shaw (actor) (1905–1994), British actor
- Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player for the NBA, has the nickname "Shaw"
- Stanford J. Shaw, historian
- Suzanne Shaw (born 1981), British actress and singer
- Sylvia Shaw Judson (1897–1978), also known as Sylvia Shaw Haskins, American sculptor and teacher
- T.E. Shaw, pseudonym of T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia")
- For people named "Thomas", see Thomas Shaw
- For people named "Tom", see Tom Shaw
- Tommy Shaw (born 1953) American musician (Styx)
- Tony Shaw (born 1960), former Australian rules footballer & media personality
- Watkins Shaw (1911–1996), British musicologist
- Wilbur Shaw (1902–1954), American race car driver
- Woody Shaw (1944–1989), American jazz trumpeter
- Zed Shaw, writer, software developer and musician
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