William Shipley was an English drawing master and social reformer.
William Shipley may also refer to: Wil Shipley, Macintosh software developer William Shipley (linguist), American linguist of the Maidu language William Davies Shipley, Anglican Dean of St Asaph, prosecuted for seditious libel William Hetherington Shipley, 19th-century painter, decorator and early pioneer in ballooning and parachuting