William Shaw may refer to:
- William Shaw (Irish politician) (1823–1895), Irish Protestant nationalist politician and leader of the Home Rule League
- William Shaw (philosopher) (born 1948), chair of the Philosophy department in San José State University
- William Shaw (minister), 17th century British Christian clergyman who founded Barton, Maryland in the United States in 1794
- William Shaw (businessman), president and chief operating officer of Marriott International Inc
- William Shaw (writer), British journalist and writer
- William Rawson Shaw (1860–1932), British politician, MP for Halifax, 1893–1897
- William Shaw (Quebec politician) (born 1932), Canadian politician and Member of the National Assembly of Quebec, 1976–1981
- William Shaw (New Brunswick politician) (1839–?), farmer, baker and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada
- William McNairn Shaw (1822–1868), Ontario lawyer and political figure
- William Shaw (mathematician) (born 1958), British mathematician
- William Shaw (actor)
- William J. Shaw (1877–1939), founded the Wack Wack Golf & Country Club
- William Thomas Shaw (1879–1965), British Member of Parliament for Forfar, 1918–1922 and 1931–1945
- William Shaw (yacht designer) (died 2006), American yacht designer
- Bill Kennedy Shaw (1901–1979), British desert explorer, botanist, archaeologist and founding member of the Long Range Desert Group
- Bill Shaw (footballer) (1886–?), Scottish footballer who played for Kilmarnock, Bristol Rovers and Dumbarton Harp
- Bill Shaw, southern gospel tenor with the The Blackwood Brothers
- Billy Shaw (born 1938), American college and professional football player
Famous quotes containing the words william and/or shaw:
“Grant me an old mans frenzy.
Myself must I remake
Till I am Timon and Lear
Or that William Blake
Who beats upon the wall
Till truth obeyed his call....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)