Bill Shipsey (born 22 June 1958) is an Irish human rights activist, barrister (retired), artist event promoter, producer and consultant.

Shipsey joined Amnesty in the late 1970s, inspired in part by the activism of entertainers, who performed at the Monty-Python-esque 'Secret Policeman's Ball' benefit show.

They have mainly been funded by artist supporters of Amnesty International including Bono and Edge of U2, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Yoko Ono, Paul Simon and John Legend, and honour, among others, Václav Havel, Seamus Heaney, Nelson Mandela, John Lennon and the people of Colombia and Greece.

[20] Since 2014 Shipsey has commissioned and promoted six bronze busts of Václav Havel, six of Eleanor Roosevelt and two of Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo in cities and universities around the world.

Bill Shipsey and Peter Sis partnered with the City of Lisbon to create a large Azulejo mural to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

The 15 square meter mural of Sis' drawing "Si morg" was unveiled on 10 December 2018, on Human Rights Day, by Katerina Vaz Pinto, the cultural counsellor of the city de Lisbon.

In 2020, a 10 square meter Ana Juan designed Azulejo mural, entitled "Solidarity", was commissioned by Shipsey for the city of Paris.

A collaboration between Art for Amnesty, and Turin-based artist and architect Matteo Pericoli [22] which began in March 2018 gave rise to a unique project: Windows on Elsewhere, 60 Refugees, 60 views.

After attending National School in Dunmore East, County Waterford Shipsey's secondary education was at Castleknock College in Dublin.