William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet.

Shakespeare may also refer to:

Places

• Shakespeare, Ontario, Canada, a village and designated place
• Shakespeare, New Mexico, United States, a ghost town
• 2985 Shakespeare, an asteroid
• Shakespeare (lunar crater), a crater on the Moon
• Shakespeare (Mercurian crater), a crater on Mercury
• Shakespeare quadrangle, a region on Mercury
• Shakespeare Cliff, near Dover, England, former location of Shakespeare Cliff Halt railway station

Arts and entertainment

• Shakespeare (album), a 2010 album by Anthony Jeselnik
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, an animated television series
• Shakespeare, a meerkat on Meerkat Manor
• "Shakespeare", a song by Akala
• "Shakespeare", a song by Miranda Cosgrove from her 2010 album Sparks Fly
• Kent Shakespeare, a DC Comics hero
• Shakespeare (Anthony Burgess), a biographical and critical study of William Shakespeare by Burgess

Other uses

• Shakespeare (surname)
• HMS Shakespeare, a list of ships
  • HMS Shakespeare (1917), a Thornycroft type destroyer leader launched in 1917
  • HMS Shakespeare (P221), an S-class submarine launched in 1941
• Shakespeare baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
• Shakespeare Bridge, Los Angeles, California
• Shakespeare Fishing Tackle
• Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
• Shakespeare Line, an alternative name for the North Warwickshire Line, a railway line
• Shakespeare Programming Language
• William Hill (This Is Us), a fictional character nicknamed "Shakespeare"

See also

• Shakespeare and Company (disambiguation)
• Shakespeare by the Sea (disambiguation)
• Shakespeare Company (disambiguation)
• Shakespeare Garden (disambiguation)
• Shakespeare Songs (disambiguation)
• Shakespeare Theatre (disambiguation)
• Shakespeare's Sister (disambiguation)