William Shaw

William Shaw may refer to:

Sports

• Billy Shaw (born 1938), American college and professional football player
• 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

Politicians

• William Shaw (Irish politician) (1823–1895), Irish Protestant nationalist politician and leader of the Home Rule League
• William Shaw (New Brunswick politician) (1839–?), farmer, baker and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada
• William Shaw (Oregon politician), member of the Oregon Territorial Legislature, 1850
• William Shaw (Quebec politician) (born 1932), 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
• William Shaw (1749-1831), Rev., author of A galic and English dictionary: Containing all the words in the Scotch and Irish.
• Bill Kennedy Shaw (1901–1979), British desert explorer, botanist, archaeologist and founding member of the Long Range Desert Group
• William Shaw (1797-1853), agricultural writer who founded the Farmers Club in 1842
• William Shaw (1929-2002), Canadian inventor and cofounder of IMAX Corporation
• William Shaw (actor) in The Choppers
• William Shaw (businessman), president and chief operating officer of Marriott International Inc
• 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) (died 2006), American yacht designer
• William J. Shaw (1877–1939), founded the Wack Wack Golf & Country Club, namesake of Shaw Boulevard
• William Shaw (engineer) (1830–1896), Irish-born Australian engineer