Shurley is a given name and a surname.
Shirley Abicair, Australian singer, musician, actress, and author
Shirley Abrahamson, American judge
Shirley Babashoff, American swimmer
Shirley Ballas, English dancer
Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
Shirley Booth, American stage, film, radio, and television actress
Shirley D. Bowler, American writer and editor
Shirley Chisholm, first African-American woman elected to Congress
Shirley Clamp, Swedish singer
Shirley Crabtree, English wrestler
Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress
Shirley Jones, American singer and stage, film, and television actress
Shirley Knight, American stage, film, and television actress
Shirley Kocaçınar, Turkish-Dutch women's footballer
Shirley Kwan, Hong Kong singer
Shirley MacLaine, American actress
Shirley Manson, Scottish singer, lead vocalist of the rock band Garbage
Shirley Muldowney, first woman to receive a licence to drive a top fuel dragster by the NHRA
Shirley Povich, American sports columnist
Shirley Scott, American hard bop and soul-jazz organist
Shirley Sherrod, United States Department of Agriculture employee
Shirley Temple, American film and television actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat
Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, English politician
Shirley Yeung, Hong Kong actress
Shirley Zwerus or Shirley (Dutch singer) (born 1946), Dutch singer and pianist
Shirley (Danish singer), Danish singer
Shirley is a rather uncommon surname, with pockets of Shirleys living in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Canada, New Zealand, and parts of Great Britain. A work on the genealogy of the various branches of the Shirley family was published as Stemmata Shirleiana by E. P. Shirley in 1841. The history of Shirleys settling in souther NH is documented in the History of Old Chester, NH by Benjamin Chase. The present generation of the Shirley family is only the most recent to bear a name that dates back to the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. Their name comes from having lived in the parish of Shirley found in the counties of Derbyshire, Surrey, Hampshire and the West Midlands.
Shirley is the surname of the title character in Anne of Green Gables, a 1908 novel by Lucy Maude Montgomery about an orphan girl in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island.
Bob Shirley, American baseball player
Don Shirley, American-Jamaican jazz pianist and composer
Drew Shirley, guitarist
James Shirley (or Sherley) (1596–1666), English dramatist
Jerry Shirley, English drummer
Kevin Shirley, South African music producer
Paul Shirley, American basketball player and writer
Simon Shirley, Australian decathlete
Stephanie Steve Shirley, UK businesswoman
William Shirley (1694–1771), British colonial governor of Massachusetts
Shirley Brahms, the Cockney shop assistant in Are You Being Served?. Portrayed by Wendy Richard.
Shirley the Loon, a fictional character in Tiny Toon Adventures
Shirley, the surname of the title character in Anne of Green Gables
Shirley Fenette, a character in the anime Code Geass
Shirley, a fictional character in The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 3
Shirley, a hairdresser in the videogame MySims
Shirley Fennes, a character in the videogame Tales of Legendia
Shirley Feeney, titular character in Laverne & Shirley
Shirley Keeldar, titular character in the Charlotte Bronte novel Shirley
Shirley Partridge, the main character in The Partridge Family
Shirley, one of the main characters of Shaun the Sheep
Shirley, an elderly female bird in The Angry Birds Movie
