William Shaw may refer to:

Sports

Billy Shaw William Lewis Shaw (born December 15, 1938) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive guard for the Buffalo Bills in the American Football League (AFL). After playing college football with the Georgia Tech Yellow J ...

(born 1938), American college and professional football player * Billy Shaw (Australian footballer) (1872–1938), Australian rules footballer for St Kilda and Melbourne * 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 for Footscray * William Shaw (cricketer) (1827–1890), English cricketer * William Shaw (footballer) (1897–?), English footballer * William Shaw (born 1902–?), English footballer for Barcelona and

Northampton Town Northampton Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Northampton, England. The team plays in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1897, the club competed in the Midland ...

Politicians

* William Shaw (Glasgow politician) (died 1937), Scottish trade unionist and Labour Party councilor *

William Shaw (Illinois politician) William "Bill" Shaw (July 31, 1937 – November 26, 2008) was an American politician. Shaw is noted as the first African-American to serve as mayor of Dolton, Illinois from 1997 until his death in 2008. For many years, Shaw and his twin brothe ...

(1937–2008), American politician *

William Shaw (Irish politician) William Shaw (4 May 1823 – 19 September 1895) was an Irish Protestant nationalist politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and one of the founders of the Irish h ...

(1823–1895), Irish Protestant nationalist politician and leader of the Home Rule League * William Shaw (New Brunswick politician) (1839–1922), farmer, baker and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada * William Shaw (Oregon politician), member of the

Oregon Territorial Legislature Oregon's Territorial Legislature was a bicameral legislative body created by the United States Congress in 1848 as the legislative branch of the government of the Oregon Territory. The upper chamber Council and lower chamber House of Representati ...

, 1850 *

William Shaw (Quebec politician) Frederick William "Bill" Shaw (October 13, 1932 – May 26, 2018) was a Canadian politician from Quebec. Background He was born on October 13, 1932 in Montreal and was a dentist. He served in the Canadian Army in the 1950s. He graduated as an or ...

(1932–2018), 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 Captain William Thomas Shaw (26 February 1879 – 20 October 1965) was Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Forfar for two periods, 1918 to 1922 and 1931 to 1945. He was educated at the High School of Dundee and was admitted to the London St ...

(1879–1965), British Member of Parliament for Forfar, 1918–1922 and 1931–1945

Others

* Bill Shaw, southern gospel tenor with

The Blackwood Brothers The Blackwood Brothers are an American southern gospel quartet. Pioneers of the Christian music industry, they are 8-time Grammy Award winners in addition to winning 7 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards. They are also members of the Memphis ...

William Shaw (Gaelic scholar) William Shaw (1749–1831) was a Scottish Gaelic scholar, writer, minister and Church of England cleric. He is known also as friend and biographer of Samuel Johnson. His 1781 paper on the Ossian controversy is still considered a good survey of cr ...

(1749–1831), author of ''A Galic and English dictionary: Containing all the words in the Scotch and Irish'' *

Bill Kennedy Shaw William Boyd Kennedy Shaw OBE (26 October 1901 – 23 April 1979) was a British desert explorer, botanist, archaeologist and soldier. During the Second World War he served with the British Army's Long Range Desert Group, and the Special Air S ...

(1901–1979), British desert explorer, botanist, archaeologist and founding member of the Long Range Desert Group * William Shaw (agricultural writer) (1797–1853), writer, editor and translator who founded the Farmers Club in 1842 * William Shaw, Canadian inventor and cofounder of

IMAX Corporation IMAX Corporation is a Canadian theatre company which designs and manufactures IMAX cameras and projection systems as well as performing film development, production, post-production and distribution to IMAX-affiliated theatres worldwide. Founde ...

William Shaw (actor) William Shaw may refer to: Sports * Billy Shaw (born 1938), American college and professional football player * Billy Shaw (Australian footballer) (1872–1938), Australian rules footballer for St Kilda and Melbourne * Bill Shaw (footballer, born ...

in '' The Choppers'' * William Shaw (businessman), president and chief operating officer of Marriott International Inc * William Shaw (engineer) (1830–1896), Irish-born Australian engineer * William Shaw (laboratory owner), founder of the Great Plains Laboratory, which sells nonstandard laboratory tests * 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) William Shaw (June 9, 1926 - August 20, 2006) was an American-born yacht designer known for his long tenure at Pearson Yachts as their Chief Naval Architect. Biography Shaw was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1926 and graduated from the Uni ...

(1926–2006), American yacht designer *

William James Shaw William James Bernard Shaw (September 20, 1877 – March 1, 1939), also known as Bill Shaw, was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist based in the Philippines. Shaw worked as a busboy on a US Army transport ship to pay his passage to Manila ...

(1877–1939), founded the Wack Wack Golf & Country Club, namesake of Shaw Boulevard * William J. Shaw (preacher) (born 1926), American preacher, see

National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., more commonly known as the National Baptist Convention (NBC USA or NBC), is a primarily African American Baptist Christian denomination in the United States. It is headquartered at the Baptist World Ce ...

William Arthur Shaw William Arthur Shaw (1865–1943) was an English historian and archivist. Life Born on 19 April 1865, in Hooley Hill, Ashton-under-Lyne, now in Greater Manchester, he was the son of James Shaw and his wife Sarah Ann Hampshire. He graduated B.A ...

(1865–1943), English historian * William Smith Shaw (1778–1826), American librarian * William Fletcher Shaw (1878–1961), English obstetric physician and gynaecologist * William Hamilton Shaw (1922–1950) was a

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...

officer who served in

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

and the

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