William Shaw
William Shaw may refer to:
Sports
- Billy Shaw, American football player
- Billy Shaw (Australian footballer), Australian rules footballer for St Kilda and Melbourne
- Bill Shaw (footballer, born 1886), Scottish footballer who played for Kilmarnock, Bristol Rovers and Dumbarton Harp
- Bill Shaw (Australian footballer), Australian rules footballer for Footscray
- William Shaw (cricketer), English cricketer
- William Shaw (footballer), English footballer
- William Shaw, English footballer for Barcelona and Northampton Town
Politicians
- William Shaw (Glasgow politician), Scottish trade unionist and Labour Party councilor
- William Shaw (Illinois politician), American politician
- William Shaw (Irish politician), Irish Protestant nationalist politician and leader of the Home Rule League
- William Shaw (New Brunswick politician), farmer, baker and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada
- William Shaw (Oregon politician), member of the Oregon Territorial Legislature, 1850
- William Shaw (Quebec politician), Canadian politician and Member of the National Assembly of Quebec, 1976–1981
- William McNairn Shaw, Ontario lawyer and political figure
- William Rawson Shaw, British politician, MP for Halifax, 1893–1897
- William T. Shaw, British Member of Parliament for Forfar, 1918–1922 and 1931–1945
Others
- Bill Shaw, southern gospel tenor with The Blackwood Brothers
- Bill Kennedy Shaw, 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), 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), Irish-born Australian engineer
- William Shaw (Gaelic scholar), 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), British mathematician
- William Shaw (minister), 18th century British Christian clergyman who founded Barton, Maryland in the United States in 1794
- William Shaw (philosopher), chair of the Philosophy department in San José State University
- William Shaw (writer), British journalist and writer
- William Shaw (yacht designer), American yacht designer
- William Arthur Shaw, English historian
- William Fletcher Shaw, English obstetric physician and gynaecologist
- William Hamilton Shaw, United States Navy officer
- William J. Shaw (preacher), American preacher, see National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
- William James Shaw, American entrepreneur and philanthropist in the Philippines
- William Smith Shaw, American librarian