Sheldon (name)
Sheldon is a masculine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Sheldon Adelson (1933-2021), American billionaire businessman
- Shel Bachrach (born 1944), American insurance broker, investor, businessman and philanthropist
- Shelley Berman (1925–2017), comedian, born Sheldon
- Sheldon Blockburger (born 1964), American decathlete
- Sheldon Brookbank (born 1980), hockey player
- Sheldon Brown (American football) (born 1979), American football player
- Sheldon Brown (artist) (born 1962), artist and professor of computer art
- Sheldon Brown (bicycle mechanic) (1944–2008), bicycle mechanic, writer, and webmaster
- Sheldon S. Cohen (1927–2018), American lawyer
- Sheldon Creed (born 1997), racing driver
- Sheldon Drobny (1945–2020), investor
- Sheldon Lee Glashow (born 1932), 1979 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Sheldon Jackson (1834–1909), missionary
- Sheldon Jackson (cricketer) (born 1986), Indian cricketer
- Sheldon Kennedy (born 1969), hockey player
- Sheldon Lavin (born 1932), American billionaire and owner, CEO and chairman of OSI Group
- Sheldon Leonard (1907–1997), actor
- Sheldon Riley (born 1999), The X-Factor and The Voice singer
- Sheldon Silver (born 1944), Speaker of the New York State Assembly
- Shel Silverstein (1930–1999), American poet, songwriter, cartoonist, and children's book author
- Sheldon Souray (born 1976), hockey player
- Sheldon Whitehouse (born 1955), Democratic United States Senator from Rhode Island
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 (1857–1946), American Congregationalist minister
- Charles H. Sheldon (1840–1898), American politician
- Chris Sheldon (born 1962), record producer
- David Sheldon (disambiguation), various people
- Dominic Sheldon, Anglo-Irish soldier
- Donald Sheldon (1921–1975), Alaskan bush pilot
- Edward Sheldon (1886–1946), American dramatist
- Fred Sheldon (English footballer) (1871–?), English footballer for Stoke
- Fred Sheldon (Welsh footballer), Welsh footballer for Aberdare Athletic
- Frederick H. Sheldon (born 1951), American ornithologist
- Gene Sheldon (Eugene Hume) (1908–1982), American pantomime actor
- George Sheldon (preservationist) (1818–1916), American historian, judge, and politician
- George L. Sheldon (1870–1960), American politician
- Gilbert Sheldon (1598–1677), Archbishop of Canterbury and builder of the Sheldonian Theatre
- Grace Carew Sheldon (1855–1921), American journalist, author, editor, businesswoman
- Henry D. Sheldon (1874–1948), American educator
- Ingrid Sheldon (born 1945), American politician
- Jack Sheldon (1931–2019), American jazz trumpeter
- James M. Sheldon, (1880–1965), American football player
- Jane Sheldon, Australian soprano
- Jennie Maria Arms Sheldon (1852–1838), American entomologist, educator, and museum curator
- Joseph Harold Sheldon (1893–1972), English physician and gerontologist
- Lee Sheldon (writer), game developer and writer
- Lewis Sheldon (1874–1960), American triple jumper
- Lilian Sheldon (1862–1942), English zoologist
- Lionel Allen Sheldon (1828–1917), American Civil War general, politician, lawyer
- Louis P. Sheldon (1934-2020), American Presbyterian pastor and activist
- Lurana W. Sheldon (1862–1945), American writer, editor, suffragist
- Matthew Sheldon (born 1992), American soccer player
- Oliver Sheldon (1894–1951), British businessman
- Robert Sheldon, Baron Sheldon (1923–2020), British politician
- Roland Sheldon (born 1936), American baseball player
- Sam Sheldon (born 1989), Australian footballer
- Scott Sheldon (born 1968), American baseball player
- Sidney Sheldon (1917–2007), American screenwriter and novelist
- Stagger Lee Sheldon (1865–1912), American murderer
- Steve Sheldon, American politician
- 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 and the prequel series Young Sheldon
- Sheldon Lee, a fictional character in My Life as a Teenage Robot
- Sheldon J. 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
- Sheldon Dinkleberg, a fictional character from The Fairly OddParents
Animals
- Sheldon, a chimpanzee featured in several books and documentaries
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