# William Shaw

William Shaw may refer to:

## Sports

* Billy Shaw (1938–2024), American football player
* Billy Shaw (Australian footballer) (1872–1938), Australian rules footballer for St Kilda and Melbourne
* Bill Shaw (footballer, born 1886) (1886–?), Scottish footballer who played for Kilmarnock, Bristol Rovers and Dumbarton Harp
* Bill Shaw (Australian footballer) (1915–1994), Australian rules footballer for Footscray
* William Shaw (cricketer) (1827–1890), English cricketer
* William Shaw (footballer) (1897–?), English footballer
* William Shaw (born 1902–?), English footballer for Barcelona and Northampton Town

## Politicians

* William Shaw (Glasgow politician) (died 1937), Scottish trade unionist and Labour Party councilor
* William Shaw (Illinois politician) (1937–2008), American politician
* William Shaw (Irish politician) (1823–1895), Irish Protestant nationalist politician and leader of the Home Rule League
* William Shaw (New Brunswick politician) (1839–1922), farmer, baker and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada
* William Shaw (Oregon politician), member of the Oregon Territorial Legislature, 1850
* William Shaw (Quebec politician) (1932–2018), Canadian politician and Member of the National Assembly of Quebec, 1976–1981
* William McNairn Shaw (1822–1868), Ontario lawyer and political figure
* William Rawson Shaw (1860–1932), British politician, MP for Halifax, 1893–1897
* William T. Shaw (1879–1965), British Member of Parliament for Forfar, 1918–1922 and 1931–1945

## Others

* Bill Shaw, southern gospel tenor with The Blackwood Brothers
* Bill Kennedy Shaw (1901–1979), British desert explorer, botanist, archaeologist and founding member of the Long Range Desert Group
* William Shaw, Canadian inventor and cofounder of IMAX Corporation
* William Shaw (actor) in The Choppers
* William Shaw (agricultural writer) (1797–1853), writer, editor and translator who founded the Farmers Club in 1842
* William Shaw (businessman), president and chief operating officer of Marriott International Inc
* William Shaw (engineer) (1830–1896), Irish-born Australian engineer
* William Shaw (Gaelic scholar) (1749–1831), author of A Galic and English dictionary: Containing all the words in the Scotch and Irish
* William Shaw (laboratory owner), founder of the Great Plains Laboratory, which sells nonstandard laboratory tests
* William Shaw (mathematician) (born 1958), British mathematician
* William Shaw (minister), 18th century British Christian clergyman who founded Barton, Maryland in the United States in 1794
* William Shaw (philosopher) (born 1948), chair of the Philosophy department in San José State University
* William Shaw (writer), British journalist and writer
* William Shaw (yacht designer) (1926–2006), American yacht designer
* William Arthur Shaw (1865–1943), English historian
* William Fletcher Shaw (1878–1961), English obstetric physician and gynaecologist
* William Hamilton Shaw (1922–1950), United States Navy officer
* William J. Shaw (preacher) (born 1926), American preacher, see National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
* William James Shaw (1877–1939), American entrepreneur and philanthropist in the Philippines
* William Smith Shaw (1778–1826), American librarian