Sheldon (name)

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

Given name:

• Sheldon Adelson, American billionaire businessman
• Sheldon Blockburger (b. 1964), American decathlete
• Sheldon Brown (artist) (b. 1962), artist and professor of computer art
• Sheldon Brown (football player) (b. 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 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
• 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
• Shelldon, snail in the animated series of the same title

Animals

• Sheldon, a chimpanzee featured in several books and documentaries