title: Shakespeare (surname)
text: # Shakespeare (surname)
  
  Shakespeare is an English family name most commonly associated with William Shakespeare (1564–1616), an English playwright and poet. Other notable people with the surname include:
  
  ## Related to the playwright
  
  * Anne Hathaway (wife of 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 manager
  * Frank Shakespeare (1925–2022), American diplomat and media executive
  * Frank Shakespeare (rower) {born 1930), American rower
  * Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, 1st Baronet (1893–1980), British Liberal politician
  * James Shakespeare (c. 1840–1912), South Australian organist
  * 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 (1953–2021), 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 (singer) (1948–2010), 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 Harold Nelson Shakespeare (1883–1976), cricketer for Worcestershire in the interwar period
  