Shawn Budd (born 2 March 1974 in Sydney, Australia), is an Australian former snooker player and pool player that has won major snooker and pool tournaments in Australia, New Zealand, England and America.

[1] In 2002 he was a quarter finalist in the IBSF World Billiards Championships (50 up).

The event is now called the World Pool Championships.

Budd grew up in the Sydney suburb of Coogee.

His grandfather, from Liverpool, England, first taught Shawn how to play snooker.