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

See also

• Shel, a list of people with the given name, most actually named Sheldon