William Shakespear (explorer)

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William Shakespear CIE
Born	William Henry Irvine Shakespear (1878-10-29)29 October 1878 Bombay, British India
Died	24 January 1915(1915-01-24) (aged 36) Lake Jarrab, Al Majma'ah, Ottoman Arabia
Occupation	Civil servant
Known for	Explorer who mapped uncharted areas of Northern Arabia

Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, CIE (29 October 1878 – 24 January 1915), was a British civil servant and explorer who mapped uncharted areas of Northern Arabia and made the first official British contact with Ibn Sa'ud, future king of Saudi Arabia. He was the military adviser to Ibn Sa'ud from 1910 to 1915, when he was shot and killed in the Battle of Jarrab by Ibn Shraim. He was buried in Kuwait.