Sheldon (name)
Sheldon is a masculine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:Given name
- Sheldon Adelson, American billionaire businessman
- Shel Bachrach, American insurance broker, investor, businessman and philanthropist
- Shelley Berman, comedian, born Sheldon
- Sheldon Blockburger, American decathlete
- Sheldon Brown , professional American football player
- Sheldon Brown , artist and professor of computer art
- Sheldon Brown , bicycle mechanic, writer, and webmaster
- Sheldon S. Cohen, American lawyer
- Sheldon Drobny, investor
- Sheldon Lee Glashow, 1979 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Sheldon Jackson, 19th century missionary
- Sheldon Jackson , Gujarati cricketer
- Sheldon Leonard, actor
- Sheldon Riley, The X-Factor & The Voice singer
- 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
- Sheldon Brookbank, hockey player
- Sheldon Kennedy, hockey player
- Sheldon Souray, hockey player
Surname
- Alexander Sheldon, Speaker of the New York State Assembly
- Benjamin R. Sheldon, American jurist
- Brooke E. Sheldon, American librarian
- Charles Sheldon, American Congregationalist minister
- Charles H. Sheldon, American politician
- Chris Sheldon, record producer
- David Sheldon, various people
- Dominic Sheldon, Anglo-Irish soldier
- Donald Sheldon, Alaskan bush pilot
- Edward Sheldon, American dramatist
- Fred Sheldon , English footballer for Stoke
- Fred Sheldon, Welsh footballer for Aberdare Athletic
- Frederick H. Sheldon, American ornithologist.
- Gene Sheldon , American pantomime actor
- George Sheldon , American historian, judge, and politician
- George L. Sheldon, American politician
- Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury and builder of the Sheldonian Theatre
- Grace Carew Sheldon, American journalist, author, editor, businesswoman
- Henry D. Sheldon, American educator
- Ingrid Sheldon, American politician
- Jack Sheldon, American jazz trumpeter
- James M. Sheldon,, American football player
- Jane Sheldon, Australian soprano
- Jennie Maria Arms Sheldon, American entomologist, educator, and museum curator
- Joseph Harold Sheldon, English physician and gerontologist
- Lee Sheldon, game developer and writer
- Lewis Sheldon, American triple jumper
- Lilian Sheldon, English zoologist
- Lionel Allen Sheldon, Civil War general, politician, lawyer
- Louis P. Sheldon, American Presbyterian pastor and activist
- Lurana W. Sheldon, American writer, editor, suffragist
- Matthew Sheldon, American soccer player
- Oliver Sheldon, British businessman
- Robert Sheldon, Baron Sheldon, British politician
- 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,, English consulting physician
- William Herbert Sheldon,, American psychologist
- William Wallace Barbour Sheldon, American architect
- Wilmon Henry Sheldon, 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 J. Plankton, a character in the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants
- Sheldon Mopes, protagonist of the 2002 film Death to Smoochy
- Sheldon, a daily webcomic
- Sheldon, a seahorse in the animated movie Finding Nemo
- Sheldon Hawkes, detective/doctor in
- 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
