- William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright now widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. His surviving works include at least 38 plays, two long narrative poems and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, and at 18 married Anne Hathaway, …
- Judith Shakespeare
Judith Quiney, also known as Judith Shakespeare, was William Shakespeare's daughter, and twin sister to Hamnet Shakespeare. She was raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. Her mother was Anne Hathaway, and her older sister was Susanna Shakespeare. She was born in England in 1585. She and her twin brother were baptised in the Stratford Parish Church on 2 February 1585. She is said to have been named after a close friend of the family, Judith Sadler, …
- Richard Shakespeare
Richard Shakespeare (1490 - 1560) was a native of Snitterfield. He was the father of John Shakespeare and grandfather of William Shakespeare. Virtually nothing is known about him except that he was given land for his services to King Henry VII of England. He was a farmer from around 1530 till his death in 1561 and has been recorded in the Stratford town records for his fines. His father was named John, his grandfather could be Thomas Shakespeare.
- John Shakespeare
John Shakespeare (c.1530 - September 1601) was a glover, farmer and alderman in Stratford-upon-Avon. He was the father of William Shakespeare. As with his son William, only a limited amount is known about John Shakespeare's life. It is possible, although not certain, that he was the son of a Mr. Richard Shakespeare of Snitterfield who was given land for his services to King Henry VII of England. John Shakespeare was a very successful man during the early part of his career.
- Hamnet Shakespeare
Hamnet Shakespeare (baptized February 2 1585 - buried August 11 1596) was the only son of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the fraternal twin of Judith Shakespeare. Relatively little is known about the short life of this child, who might have carried on the Shakespeare family name had he survived to adulthood. Hamnet and his twin sister Judith were born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptized on February 2 1585 in Holy Trinity Church by Richard Barton of Coventry.
- Stephan Shakespeare
Stephan Shakespeare (born 1957 in Germany as Stephan Kukowski) is the founder and Chief Innovations Officer of the high-profile British Internet-based market research and opinion polls company YouGov. His other business interests include Internet television channel 18 Doughty Street. Kukowski (as he then was) came to the UK at the age of five and was educated at Christ's Hospital near London.
- William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was the stage name of Australian singer born Johnny Cabe (also known as John Cave). He had two big Australian hits: "Can't Stop Myself From Loving You" in 1974 and " My Little Angel", which made number one on the Australian charts in 1975 for 3 weeks. In 1974, in the planning stages for the ABC TV Series Countdown, it was suggested that William Shakespeare host the show.
- Craig Shakespeare
Craig Shakespeare (born Birmingham, 26 October, 1963) is a former professional footballer who went on to become a football coach. He is currently reserve team coach at West Bromwich Albion F.C..
- Tom Shakespeare
Sir Thomas William Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet (born 11 May 1966), better known as Tom Shakespeare, is a geneticist and sociologist. He has achondroplasia. Shakespeare was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and gained a Master of Philosophy from King's College, Cambridge in 1991. Whilst a student, he featured in a television documentary about his restricted growth, along with his father, Sir William Geoffrey Shakespeare, a prominent medical practitioner.
- William Shakespeare
William Harold Nelson Shakespeare (24 August 1893 - 10 July 1976) was an English cricketer who played 26 first-class matches for Worcestershire between 1919 and 1931. Born in Worcester, Shakespeare made his first-class debut in August 1919 against Warwickshire; this was a friendly match as Worcestershire did not enter the County Championship that season. Opening the batting with Alfred Cliff he had a fine match, scoring 62 in the first innings and 67 not out in the second.
- Frank Shakespeare
Francis J. Shakespeare (b. April 9 1925 in New York City), American diplomat and media executive, was United States Ambassador to the Holy See from 1986 - 1989. In 1946 Shakespeare graduated (B.S.) from Holy Cross College. He was president of CBS Television in New York from 1950 to 1969, when was appointed Director of the United States Information Agency and served there until 1973 also as director of Radio Free Europe.
- Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare
Sir Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, 1st Baronet PC (1893 - 8 September 1980) was a British Liberal Party politician. The second son of Rev. J. H. Shakespeare, he was educated at Highgate School. He served in World War I. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he graduated MA LLB. He was President of the Cambridge Union Society in Lent Term 1920. He was called to the Bar in 1922, was Private Secretary to David Lloyd George from 1921-1923, …
- William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (September 27, 1912 - January 17, 1974) was an American football player. He was drafted in the 1936 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates but never played a game in the NFL. In World War II, Shakespeare went from private to captain, won four battle stars and the Bronze Star for gallantry in action. He was also president of the Cincinnati Rubber Manufacturing Company.
- Letisha Shakespeare
Letisha Shakespeare was a young British woman, born in 1985, who was murdered on January 2, 2003, along with Charlene Ellis, in a botched gangland shooting. In what has become known as the New Year Murders, Shakespeare and Ellis had been standing outside a hair salon in Aston, Birmingham during the early hours of the morning, following a party. Four men – Michael Gregory, Rodrigo Simms, Marcus Ellis (the half brother of Charlene Ellis), …
- Shannon Shakespeare
Shannon Shakespeare (born May 6, 1977 in Mission, British Columbia) is a former international freestyle swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at two consequentive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. There she finished in 17th position in the 200m Freestyle. During the late 1990s Shakespeare was a key member in the Canadian Freestyle Relay Teams.
- Clive Shakespeare
Clive Shakespeare (born 3 June, 1949 in Southampton, England) was the founder and lead guitarist with the successful Australian rock band, Sherbet. He is now working in record production.
- William Geoffrey Shakespeare
Sir William Geoffrey Shakespeare, 2nd Baronet (1926 - 1996) was a highly respected General Practitioner who practised at the Bedgrove Health Centre in Aylesbury. He had achondroplasia. He was born in 1926 and inherited the Baronetcy in 1980 on the death of his father, Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, Bart.. The title passed to the eldest of his children, Sir Thomas Shakespeare, on his death in 1996.
- Noah Shakespeare
Noah Shakespeare (January 26, 1839 - May 13, 1921) was a Canadian politician from British Columbia noted for his involvement in the anti-Chinese movement. Shakespeare was born in Staffordshire, England, arriving in Victoria, British Columbia in 1863. Shakespeare was involved in the photography business, running a gallery and acting as an agent for others. He made an early run for office as an independent candidate in the second British Columbia election in 1875, …
- Joe Shakespeare
Joe Shakespeare (born: Sydney, Australia) was a rugby league footballer. He played for in the Eastern Suburbs club in rugby leagues foundation season in Australia - 1908.
- Nicholas Shakespeare
Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare (born March 3, 1957 in Worcester) is a British journalist and writer. Born to a diplomat, Shakespeare grew up in the Far East and in South America. He was educated at the Dragon School preparatory school then Winchester College and Cambridge and worked as a journalist for BBC television and then on "The Times" as assistant arts and literary editor.
- Christopher Marlowe
Christopher "Kit" Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian before William Shakespeare, he is known for his magnificent blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own untimely death.
- Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson LL.D. (13 December 1784), often referred to simply as Dr Johnson, is one of England's best known literary figures : a poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer and a critic of English literature. He was also a great wit and prose stylist, well known for his "aphorisms". Dr Johnson is the most quoted of English writers after Shakespeare and has been described as one of the outstanding figures of 18th-century England.
- Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 - 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. Olivier's Academy acknowledgments are considerable—fourteen Oscar nominations, with two wins for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film "Hamlet", and two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received.
- Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare. Little is known about her.
- John Keats
John Keats was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from the periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred Tennyson has been immense. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize Keats's poetry, including a series of odes that were his masterpieces and which remain among the most popular poems in English literature.
- Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith, 1963 - 2005, was a well-known actor who worked for many years with the Belvoir Theatre Company in Sydney playing roles in Shakespeare and modern works. He was also well-known as the narrator of Dreamtime animations and the storyteller of Dreamtime stories on Australian TV. He narrated the popular stage version of Tim Winton's "Cloudstreet" that toured all over Australia. He played many support roles on TV and film.
- Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 - 30 May 1744) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the early eighteenth century, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in the English language, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. Pope was a master of the heroic couplet.
- Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 - October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter from Indiana. His works include the musical comedies "Kiss Me, Kate" (1948) (based on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew"), "Fifty Million Frenchmen" and "Anything Goes", as well as songs like "Night and Day," "I Get a Kick Out of You," and "I've Got You Under My Skin." He was noted for his sophisticated (sometimes ribald) lyrics, clever rhymes, …
- Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli (born Gianfranco Corsi on February 12, 1923), is an Italian film director. He is also an opera director, designer and producer of opera, theatre, film and television. Internationally, he is known for having directed the 1968 film version of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" for which he was nominated to receive an Academy Award.
- Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian short story writer and playwright. He was born in Taganrog, southern Russia, on, and died of tuberculosis at the health spa of Badenweiler, Germany, on. His brief playwriting career produced four classics, while his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress".
- Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 - November 22, 1993) was a British novelist, critic and composer. He was also active as a librettist, poet, pianist, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator, linguist and educationalist. Born in Harpurhey, Manchester in northwest England, he lived and worked variously in Southeast Asia, the United States and Mediterranean Europe.
- Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken (born March 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actor who is best known for roles such as the Bond villain Max Zorin in the 1985 blockbuster "A View to a Kill". In 1979, Walken won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Deer Hunter", where he played a disturbed Vietnam vet alongside Robert De Niro. Walken was nominated again in 2002 for "Catch Me if You Can".
- Kevin Williamson
Kevin Williamson, creator of English Suitcase Theatre, is a talented Vancouver-based actor. Born in London, England he moved to Canada in the 1990s after touring several Canadian provinces with his theatre. He has taken part in Vancouver's annual Bard on the Beach Festival. Williamson has been a regular participant of Vancouver's Fringe Theatre Festival. As a director, he has put on classics such as "Macbeth", …
- Troilus
In Greek mythology, Troilus is a Trojan prince and one of the many sons of Priam. In medieval and Renaissance versions of the legend of the Trojan War, Troilus falls in love with Cressida, whose father has defected to the Greeks because he can foresee the sack and genocide of Troy. Cressida pledges her love to him, but when she is returned to the Greeks in a hostage exchange, she loses hope, and winds up with the Greek hero Diomedes.
- Sam Taylor
Sam Taylor was a film director, screenwriter, and producer. Taylor is best known for his work with Harold Lloyd. He is amusingly recalled today for his 1929 adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew", in which a screen credit is given for "additional dialogue by Sam Taylor."
- Helen Hunt
Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning American actress, perhaps most widely known for her role in the television sitcom "Mad About You". Hunt began her career in the 1970s as a child actress. Her early roles included an appearance as Murray Slaughter's daughter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", and a regular role in the television series "The Swiss Family Robinson".
- Thomas Middleton
Thomas Middleton (1580 - 1627) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period. He stands with Shakespeare as one of the few Renaissance dramatists to achieve equal success in comedy and tragedy. Also a prolific writer of masques and pageants, …
- Enid Blyton
Enid Mary Blyton (August 11, 1897-November 28, 1968) was a popular English children's writer. She was one of the most successful juvenile storytellers of the twentieth century. She is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups. Her books have enjoyed popular success in many parts of the world, and have sold over 400 million copies.
- Joseph Papp
Joseph Papp (June 22 1921 - October 31 1991) was an American theatrical producer and director. Born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish immigrants from Russia, Papp founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1954 with the aim of making Shakespeare's works accessible to the public. In 1957 he was granted the use of Central Park for free productions of Shakespeare's plays. By age 41 after the establishment of the Park's Delacorte Theater, …
- David Garrick
David Garrick (19 February 1717 - 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson. Amateur theatricals comprised his first work on the stage, however, it was not until his appearance in the title role of Shakespeare's "Richard III" that audiences and managers began to take notice.