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Sheldon (name)

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Sheldon is both a masculine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

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Given name

  • Sheldon Adelson, American billionaire businessman
  • Sheldon Blockburger (born 1964), American decathlete
  • Sheldon Brown (artist) (born 1962), artist and professor of computer art
  • Sheldon Brown (football player) (born 1979), professional American football player
  • Sheldon Brown (bicycle mechanic) (1944–2008), bicycle mechanic, writer, and webmaster
  • Sheldon Drobny, investor
  • Sheldon Glashow, 1979 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
  • Sheldon Jackson, 19th century missionary
  • Sheldon Jackson, Gujarati cricketer
  • Sheldon Leonard, actor
  • Sheldon Silver, Speaker of the New York State Assembly
  • Shel Silverstein, American poet, songwriter, cartoonist, and children's book author
  • Sheldon Whitehouse, Democratic United States Senator from Rhode Island (2007–)
  • Sheldon Brookbank, hockey player
  • Sheldon Kennedy, hockey player
  • Sheldon Souray, hockey player

    • Surname

  • Alexander Sheldon (1766–1832), Speaker of the New York State Assembly
  • Benjamin R. Sheldon (1811–1897), American jurist
  • Brooke E. Sheldon (1931–2013), American librarian
  • Charles Sheldon, American Congregationalist minister
  • Charles H. Sheldon, American politician
  • Chris Sheldon, record producer
  • David Sheldon (disambiguation), various people
  • Donald Sheldon, Alaskan bush pilot
  • Edward Sheldon, American dramatist
  • Fred Sheldon (disambiguation), various people
  • Gene Sheldon (Eugene Hume), American pantomime actor
  • George Sheldon (preservationist), American historian, judge, and politician
  • George L. Sheldon, American politician
  • Gilbert Sheldon (1598–1677), Archbishop of Canterbury and builder of the Sheldonian Theatre
  • Henry D. Sheldon, American educator
  • Ingrid Sheldon, American politician
  • Jack Sheldon, American jazz trumpeter
  • Jennie Maria Arms Sheldon (1852–1838), American entomologist, educator, and museum curator
  • Lee Sheldon (writer), game developer and writer
  • Lewis Sheldon, American triple jumper
  • Lilian Sheldon, English zoologist
  • Lou Sheldon, American Presbyterian pastor and activist
  • Oliver Sheldon, British businessman
  • Roland Sheldon, American baseball player
  • Sam Sheldon, Australian rules footballer
  • Scott Sheldon, American baseball player
  • Sidney Sheldon, American screenwriter and novelist
  • Stagger Lee Sheldon, American murderer
  • Wilfrid Percy Henry Sheldon, (1901–1983), English consulting physician
  • William Herbert Sheldon, (1899–1977), American psychologist
  • William Wallace Barbour Sheldon (1836–1915), American architect
  • Wilmon Henry Sheldon (1875–1981), American philosopher

    • Fictional characters

  • Paul Sheldon, fictional character from the novel Misery
  • Sheldon Cooper, fictional character from the television series The Big Bang Theory
  • Sheldon Lee, a fictional character in My Life as a Teenage Robot
  • Sheldon Plankton, a character in the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants
  • Sheldon Mopes, protagonist of the 2002 film Death to Smoochy
  • Sheldon (webcomic), a daily webcomic
  • Sheldon, a seahorse in the animated movie Finding Nemo
  • Sheldon Hawkes, detective/doctor in CSI: NY
  • Sheldon, a chick in the comic strip U.S. Acres
  • Sheldon, a magical genie in the television series Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
  • Sheldon, a fictional character from the game Splatoon
  • Sheldon, butler at Stourton, Charles Rainier's country house in Random Harvest by James Hilton
  • Shelldon, snail in the animated series of the same title

    • Animals

  • Sheldon, a chimpanzee featured in several books and documentaries

    • References

    Sheldon (name) Wikipedia
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