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Sharon Horgan

Sharon Horgan (born 1970, Hackney, London) is an Irish actress, writer, and producer behind Pulling, Catastrophe, Motherland, Divorce, Bad Sisters, and the 2026 HBO comedy Youth, and co-founder of Merman.

Sharon J. Coleman

Sharon Johnson Coleman, born in 1960 in Chicago, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed in 2010.

Sharon K. Inouye

Sharon K. Inouye is an American geriatric medicine physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School known for creating the Confusion Assessment Method and the Hospital Elder Life Program.

Sharon Kinne

Sharon Kinne (Diedra Glabus, La Pistolera) was an American woman tried in three 1960s killings in Missouri and Mexico who escaped a Mexican prison in 1969 and was confirmed in 2025 to have died in Alberta, Canada in 2022.

Sharon Kleinbaum

Sharon Kleinbaum is an American rabbi who served from 1992 to 2024 as the founding senior rabbi of New York City's Congregation Beit Simchat Torah.

Sharon Kovacs

Sharon Kovacs (born 1990, Baarlo) is the Dutch soul singer performing as Kovacs; debut EP My Love (2014) hit number one in Greece, album Shades of Black topped the Dutch chart, followed by Cheap Smell and Child of Sin.

Sharon L. Blackburn

Sharon L. Blackburn, also known as Sharon Lovelace Blackburn, is an American jurist and senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Alabama, appointed in 1991.

Sharon L. Gleason

Sharon L. Gleason, born Sharon Louise Gleason, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the District of Alaska since 2012, appointed by President Barack Obama.

Sharon Lawrence

Sharon Lawrence (Sharon Elizabeth Lawrence, born 1961, Charlotte, NC) is an American actress known as ADA Sylvia Costas on NYPD Blue, a multiple Emmy nominee and SAG Award winner with Broadway credits in Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof, and Chicago.

Sharon M. Wahl

Sharon M. Wahl is an American immunologist at NIH's dental research institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for work on HIV reservoirs, SLPI, and regulatory T cells.

Sharon Marley

Sharon Marley, born 1964 in Kingston, Jamaica, is a Jamaican reggae singer, three-time Grammy winner with Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, and daughter of Bob and Rita Marley; her debut solo album Firebird was released in 2026.

Sharon Maughan

Sharon Maughan (Sharon Patricia Mughan) is an English actress, RADA-trained, known as Tricia Williams in Holby City (2003–2006), the Gold Blend ads, The Bank Job, and as wife of Trevor Eve and mother of Alice Eve.

Sharon Needles

Sharon Needles (Aaron Coady, born 1981, Newton, Iowa) is an American horror-themed drag performer who won season 4 of RuPaul's Drag Race in 2012, released albums PG-13, Taxidermy, Battle Axe, and Spoopy, and was later the subject of abuse and racism allegations she denied.

Sharon Neufeldt

Sharon Neufeldt is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Montana State University. Her research integrates experimental kinetics with DFT calculations to study Pd- and Ni-catalyzed cross-coupling.

Sharon Newman

Sharon Newman (née Collins), fictional character on CBS soap The Young and the Restless, created by William J. Bell, first appearing March 28, 1994; played by Sharon Case since 1994, married to Nick, Jack, Adam, and Victor Newman.

Sharon Osbourne

Sharon Osbourne (Sharon Rachel Levy, born 1952, London) is a British music manager and TV personality, widow and manager of Ozzy Osbourne. Created Ozzfest (1996), starred in MTV's The Osbournes (2002–2005), judged The X Factor and America's Got Talent, co-hosted The Talk until her 2021 exit.

Sharon Peacock

Sharon J. Peacock is a British clinical microbiologist and pathogen genomicist, founding director of the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium and Master of Churchill College, Cambridge.

Sharon Prost

Sharon Prost, born 1951, is an American judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, appointed by George W. Bush in 2001.

Sharon Quirk-Silva

Sharon Quirk-Silva is an American politician and educator serving as a Democratic member of the California State Assembly from the 67th district, which she has represented since 2022.

Sharon R. Long

Sharon R. Long, also published as Sharon Long, is an American plant biologist and Stanford professor who established the genetics of the rhizobia-legume symbiosis and won the MacArthur Fellowship.

Sharon Shewmake

Sharon Shewmake is an American Democratic politician and professor of environmental economics at Western Washington University, serving in the Washington State Senate since 2022 and chairing its Environment, Energy and Technology Committee.

Sharon Stone

Sharon Stone, American actress and painter born 1958 in Meadville, Pennsylvania; star of Total Recall, Basic Instinct, and Scorsese's Casino (Golden Globe win, Oscar nomination); survived a 2001 stroke and now exhibits large acrylic paintings.

Sharon Stouder

Sharon Stouder (Sharon Marie Stouder-Clark), American swimmer, 1948-2013. Won 3 golds and a silver at Tokyo 1964 aged 15, setting 100m butterfly and relay world records.

Sharon Straus

Sharon E. Straus is a Canadian geriatrician and clinical epidemiologist, Chief Medical Officer of Unity Health Toronto and a University of Toronto professor known for knowledge translation research.

Sharon Tate

Sharon Tate (1943-1969), American actress of Valley of the Dolls and The Fearless Vampire Killers, wife of Roman Polanski, murdered August 9, 1969 by Manson Family followers at 10050 Cielo Drive while eight and a half months pregnant.

Sharon Tucker

Sharon Tucker is an American Democratic politician serving as the 37th mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she is the first Black female mayor in the city's history.

Sharon Van Etten

Sharon Van Etten, New Jersey-born American singer-songwriter and actor, rose from 2009's Because I Was in Love through Tramp and Remind Me Tomorrow to front the band Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (2025).

Sharon van Rouwendaal

Sharon van Rouwendaal, Dutch open water swimmer, born 1993 in Baarn, won Olympic 10 km gold at Rio 2016 and Paris 2024 and silver at Tokyo 2020, making her the most decorated Olympic marathon swimmer; retired September 2025 after an 18-year career.

Sharon Ventura

Sharon Ventura, also called Ms. Marvel and She-Thing, is a Marvel Comics character created by Mike Carlin and Ron Wilson in Thing #27 (1985), a stuntwoman and wrestler given powers by the Power Broker who joined the Fantastic Four and mutated into a rocky She-Thing form.

Sharon Washington (actress)

Sharon Washington (born 1959) is an American actress and playwright, a Yale School of Drama MFA who grew up in a NYPL custodial apartment, wrote and performs the solo play Feeding the Dragon, appeared in The Scottsboro Boys and Joker, and was nominated for a 2023 Tony for New York, New York.