Shakespeare (disambiguation)
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet.
Shakespeare may also refer to:
Places
On Earth
- Shakespeare, New Mexico, United States, a ghost town
- Shakespeare, Ontario, Canada, a village and designated place
Elsewhere
- 2985 Shakespeare, an asteroid
- Shakespeare quadrangle, a region on Mercury
- Shakespeare (crater), on Mercury
Arts and entertainment
- Shakespeare, a meerkat on Meerkat Manor
- Shakespeare (album), 2010 debut album by comedian Anthony Jeselnik
- "Shakespeare", a song by Akala
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, an animated television series
Other uses
- HMS Shakespeare, two ships of the Royal Navy
- Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
- Shakespeare Theatre (disambiguation)
- Shakespeare baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
- Shakespeare (programming language)
- Shakespeare Bridge, Los Angeles, California
- Shakespeare (Anthony Burgess), a biographical and critical study of William Shakespeare by Burgess
- Shakespeare Fishing Tackle
People with the surname
Related to the playwright
- Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare) (c. 1555-c. 1623), his wife
- Richard Shakespeare (1490–c. 1561), his paternal grandfather
- John Shakespeare (c. 1531–1601), his father
- Mary Shakespeare (c. 1537–1608), his mother
- Gilbert Shakespeare (1566-c. 1612), his brother
- Joan Shakespeare (1569–1646), his sister
- Edmund Shakespeare (1580–1607), his youngest brother and an actor
- Susanna Shakespeare (c. 1583–1649), his daughter
- Judith Shakespeare (c. 1585–c. 1662), his daughter
- Hamnet Shakespeare (c. 1585–c. 1596), his son
Others
- Abraham Shakespeare (c. 1966–2009), American lottery winner and murder victim
- Clive Shakespeare (1949–2012), English-born Australian pop guitarist, songwriter and producer
- Craig Shakespeare (born 1963), former association football player and 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 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 (born 1953), 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 (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
Fictional characters
- Kent Shakespeare, a DC Comics hero
See also
- Shakespeare and Company (disambiguation)