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Sheila Gish
Sheila Gish (Sheila Anne Syme Gash, 1942–2005), English stage and screen actress; Olivier winner for Company (1996); noted for Blanche du Bois, Les Parents Terribles, Highlander films; died of cancer aged 62.
Sheila Hancock
Dame Sheila Hancock (born 1933) is an English actor and author, Olivier Award winner for Cabaret, widow of John Thaw, Dame in 2021, memoirist of The Two of Us and Old Rage.
Sheila Hicks
Sheila Hicks (born 1934, Hastings, Nebraska) is an American fiber and textile artist based in Paris since 1964, trained under Josef Albers at Yale, known for Minimes, fiber sculptures, and monumental commissions.
Sheila Hudson
Sheila Hudson (Sheila Ann Hudson-Strudwick), born 1967, American triple jumper and long jumper; set two world records and seven US records, won seven US titles, four NCAA titles, and placed 10th at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Sheila Jackson Lee
Sheila Jackson Lee (1950–2024) was a Democratic U.S. representative for Texas's 18th District (Houston) from 1995 until her death from pancreatic cancer, a former municipal judge and city council member who lost Houston's 2023 mayoral runoff to John Whitmire.
Sheila Johnson
Sheila Johnson is an American businesswoman who co-founded the cable network BET, then built the Salamander Collection of luxury hotels and owns stakes in three Washington, D.C. sports teams.
Sheila K. Singh
Sheila K. Singh (Sheila Kumari Singh) is a Canadian physician-scientist and pediatric neurosurgeon known for identifying brain tumor stem cells and developing CAR T cell immunotherapies against glioblastoma.
Sheila K. West
Sheila K. West is an American ophthalmic epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins' Wilmer Eye Institute whose face-washing and azithromycin trials in Kongwa, Tanzania, informed WHO trachoma control guidelines.
Sheila Kelley (American actress)
Sheila Kelley (born 1961, Greensburg, Pennsylvania) is an American actress known for Gwen Taylor on L.A. Law, Charley on Sisters, Debbie Wexler on The Good Doctor, and for founding the S Factor pole-fitness practice; distinct from the British actress of the same name.
Sheila Kuehl
Sheila James Kuehl, born 1941, is an American politician, lawyer, and former child actress (Zelda Gilroy on Dobie Gillis); first openly LGBTQ California legislator, Assembly 1994-2000, Senate 2000-2008, LA County supervisor 2014-2022, cleared in 2024 corruption probe.
Sheila L. Arvikar
Sheila L. Arvikar, also published as Sheila Leah Arvikar and S. Arvikar, is an American rheumatologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who studies and treats Lyme arthritis.
Sheila LaBarre
Sheila LaBarre, born Sheila Kaye Bailey in 1958, is a New Hampshire murderer serving life without parole for killing Kenneth Countie and Michael Deloge at her Epping horse farm; her 2008 insanity defense failed and her appeal was affirmed in 2010.
Sheila Lerwill
Sheila Lerwill (née Alexander, born 1928), British high jumper: 1952 Helsinki Olympic silver at 1.65 m, world record 1.72 m in 1951, 1950 European champion, pioneer female straddle jumper.
Sheila MacRae
Sheila MacRae (1921-2014), London-born American actress, singer and dancer, ex-wife of Gordon MacRae; best known as Alice Kramden on The Jackie Gleason Show's Honeymooners sketches, 1966-1970, replacing Audrey Meadows.
Sheila Majid
Sheila Majid (Shaheila Abdul Majid, born 1965), Malaysia's "Queen of Jazz" pop singer, debuted with Dimensi Baru (1985), scored with Sinaran (1986), released Legenda (1990), triple platinum, and celebrated 40 years in music in 2025.
Sheila McCarthy
Sheila McCarthy, born 1956 in Toronto, is a Canadian actress and singer known for I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, Little Mosque on the Prairie, and Women Talking, with two Genies, two Geminis, two Doras, and an ACTRA Award.
Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Sheila Miyoshi Jager, American historian and Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College; author of Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea (2013) and The Other Great Game (2023), winner of the 2024 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History.
Sheila Nirenberg
Sheila Nirenberg is an American neuroscientist and Weill Cornell professor who deciphered the retina's output code and applied it to an optogenetic gene therapy for restoring vision in retinal disease.
Sheila Patek
Sheila Patek is a biologist at Duke University who studies the fastest movements in the animal kingdom, from mantis shrimp strikes to trap-jaw ant mandible snaps.
Sheila Reid
Sheila Reid (born 1937, Glasgow) is a Scottish character actress, an original 1963 National Theatre member who played Bianca in Olivier's Othello, and best known as Madge Harvey in ITV's Benidorm.
Sheila Sherlock
Sheila Sherlock was a British physician who built hepatology into a distinct specialty and became the first woman professor of medicine in the UK, at the Royal Free Hospital from 1959.
Sheila Sim
Sheila Sim names two actresses: Lady Attenborough (1922–2016), English star of A Canterbury Tale and the original London Mousetrap cast, wife of Richard Attenborough; and 沈琳宸 (born 1984), Singaporean model-actress of Emerald Hill.
Sheila Taormina
Sheila Christine Taormina (born 1969, Livonia, Michigan) is an American swimmer, triathlete, and modern pentathlete; 1996 Olympic 4x200 freestyle relay gold medalist, 2004 ITU triathlon world champion, and first woman to qualify for Olympics in three sports.
Sheila Vand
Sheila Vand, born 1985 in Los Angeles, is an Iranian American actress and performance artist known for The Girl in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), Argo, We the Animals, Snowpiercer, and The Rental.
Sheila Widnall
Sheila Widnall is an American aerospace engineer and MIT Institute Professor Emerita known for vortex dynamics research and for serving as Secretary of the Air Force from 1993 to 1997.
Sheila Young
Sheila Young (Sheila Young-Ochowicz), born 1950 in Birmingham, Michigan, is an American speed skater and track cyclist who won three medals at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Olympics and world sprint titles in both sports (1973, 1975, 1976 skating; 1973, 1976, 1981 cycling).
Sheilah Graham
Sheilah Graham, born Lily Shiel, was a British-born Hollywood gossip columnist whose syndicated column ran for over 35 years, and she was known as F. Scott Fitzgerald's last lover.
Sheilah Martin
Sheilah L. Martin (born 1957, Montreal) is a Canadian jurist, formerly a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada (2017–2026), earlier Alberta trial and appeal courts, University of Calgary law dean, and residential schools settlement contributor.
Sheilla Tavares
Sheilla Tavares de Castro Blassioli, Brazilian opposite born 1983 in Belo Horizonte, two-time Olympic volleyball champion (Beijing 2008, London 2012), Brazil's top scorer at both Games, retired 2022 with 56 career gold medals.
Shein
Shein (希音), also styled SHEIN, is a Singapore-headquartered global online fast-fashion retailer founded in China in 2012, using an on-demand small-batch LATR model, serving ~273 million customers in ~160 markets, and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (ticker 0625) in September 2026.