William Shakespeare Jr. (September 21, 1869 – June 25, 1950) was an American inventor.

Shakespeare was born to William Shakespeare, Sr. and Lydia A. Markley in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1869.^[1]

He invented the level-winding fishing reel.^[2] Shakespeare also founded and was one of the key people of Shakespeare Fishing Tackle,^[3] which he founded in 1897, as a fisherman aiming to improve the fishing-reel mechanism.

He was a traveling salesman of patent medicines.^[4]

In addition to numerous fishing-tackle innovations, Shakespeare also received patents for camera equipment^[5] and a carburetor.^[6]

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