William James Bernard Shaw (September 20, 1877 – March 1, 1939), also known as Bill Shaw,[1] was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist based in the Philippines.

Shaw worked as a busboy on a US Army transport ship to pay his passage to Manila, arriving in 1901 and never leaving hence.

He eventually became part owner of Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific.

Shaw started Wack Wack in 1930 – because he was disgusted that Larry Montes, a caddie who had won the 1929 Philippine Open tournament and later many subsequent tournaments at the Manila Golf Club, of which Shaw was a member, had been asked to leave the tournament celebration, by virtue of a rule against the presence of caddies inside the Manila Golf Club.

Shaw was a member of the board of the Boy Scouts of America Philippine Islands Council No.