Crawshay is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Crawshay Bailey (1789–1872), English industrialist who became one of the great iron-masters of Wales David Crawshay (born 1979), Australian rower Eliot Crawshay-Williams (1879–1962), British author, officer, and Liberal Party politician Geoffrey Crawshay (1892–1954), Welsh soldier and social benefactor who is most notable for his connections to rugby union Joseph Edward Crawshay Partridge (1890–1969), Welsh born international rugby union player Richard Crawshay (1739–1810), London iron merchant and then South Wales ironmaster Robert Thompson Crawshay (1817–1879), British ironmaster Rose Mary Crawshay (1828–1907), English philanthropist, wife of Robert Thompson Crawshay William Crawshay I (1764–1834), South Wales industrialist William Crawshay II (1788–1867), the son of William Crawshay I
See also Crawshay's zebra (Equus quagga crawshayi), a subspecies of the plains zebra Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, literary prize for female scholars